Ole Holum is a prominent democrat and has held various offices of trust, being e. g. Register of Deeds in 1877–78.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

I almost wished, now that Covey was coming, they would do something in keeping with the character I had given them; but no, they had already had their spree, and they could afford now to be extra good, readily obeying my orders, and seeming to understand them quite as well as I did myself.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

They came dragging big, fat babies and little weazened ones that they might get a share, and the babies' eyes grew round and big at the sight of the golden glory from the fields, the like of which had never come their way.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

And then to what end were those tearings and dismemberments of the Corybantes, the Menades, and, in our times, of the Mahometans, who slash their faces, bosoms, and limbs, to gratify their prophet; seeing that the offence lies in the will, not in the breast, eyes, genitals, roundness of form, the shoulders, or the throat?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Dickon's curious blue eyes grew rounder and rounder.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Chapter 12 Anna and Vronsky had long been exchanging glances, regretting their friend’s flow of cleverness.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And here and there in restless rage repairs, Till he has seen each bower, each galleried row; With the same purpose he ascends the stairs, Having first vainly searched each room below.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

“Good!” thought I. “If empty, all the better; but if not, surely there is something in it of a light nature—something that may be easily got rid of.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid

Of course there was a great deal of fuss about the proper sport toggery, but everyone got rigged out by the time the toboggans got there.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

Not only is the body thus brilliantly coloured, but equally gaudy rays will be seen round it, probably produced by the moving legs and by refraction.
— from Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Charles Edward Walker

The publication of it has been a great boon to all Chaucer students, for which Dr. Furnivall will be ever gratefully remembered....
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Edited by Ernest George Ravenstein , F.R.G.S. pp.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Romanians—in short, all nations—have professed their belief in astrology.
— from Superstition in Medicine by Hugo Magnus

My brother exhibited much pleasure at the sight of Busai, but expressed great resentment at such a daring attempt to deprive him of so brave and valuable a servant, a man whom Le Guast durst not attack in any other way than by a base assassination.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various