And the blessed dreams that came To fill my heart with joy.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

“But did the children give you a reason?”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

They will be delighted to come to-morrow evening.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But, whatever likelihood there may be that the Colossian false teachers also held this doctrine (see above p. 85 sq.), it nowhere appears in the context, and we should not expect so important a topic to be dismissed thus cursorily.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

There’s a funny smell of [Pg 142] soot blowing down the chimney.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

With the change of wind came a change of weather, and in two hours the wind moderated into the light steady breeze, which blows down the coast the greater part of the year, and, from its regularity, might be called a trade-wind.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The electricians on board decided to cut the cable before fishing it up, and by eleven o'clock that evening they had retrieved the damaged part.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

To those who are only acquainted with the harbour under its present aspect it will be difficult to convey a correct notion of its appearance in ancient times.
— from The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 1 by W. (William) Finden

It tore away one bridge, destroyed the city's most pretentious driveway and forced 186 the families living along its banks to desert their palatial homes.
— from The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall

The political machine supported by every privileged interest will oppose by every means in its power the efforts of the people to break down the checks upon the majority.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

They drank the wine with great freedom and relish; and by degrees their conversation turned upon the topic of love.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

We had a big Quartermaster's "fly" pitched for our company and a long table built down the center of the space it covered, with benches fitted on each side of it.
— from Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion by Albert Maxfield

Most practical men who have given the subject attention will, I think, be disposed to coincide with this view, though there are some who hold that the occurrence of these parallel ore chutes and rich deposits at the junctions of lodes is due to extraneous electrical agency.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

David has human intelligence in a setting that it would be difficult to classify for a dog-show; a melancholy bloodhound strain certainly percolates thoroughly through him, and his long ears, dewlaps, and front legs, tending to bow, separate him from the fox "'ounds" of Larry's experience.
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright

The person of whom I speak seemed born for the purpose of foreshadowing the doctrines of Turgot, Price, Priestley, and Condorcet—of exemplifying by individual instance what has been deemed the chimera of the perfectionists.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe