The boy guessed right the very first time.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

When he had looked at her for some time, Bernard Grandin replied with a jocular accent of sincere conviction: “You may well call her beautiful!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Her short top-gallant masts were up; her bowlines all unrove (except to the courses); the quarter boom-irons off her lower yards; her jack-cross-trees sent down; several blocks got rid of; running-rigging rove in new places; and numberless other changes of the same character.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In the middle of the circle of greensward extended a noisy, moving circle of birds, girt round with a belt of doves, like a white ribbon, mottled with stars, spots, and stripes.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I said what I could to comfort her, and offered such counsels as I thought she most required: advising her, first, by gentle reasoning, by kindness, example, and persuasion, to try to ameliorate her husband; and then, when she had done all she could, if she still found him incorrigible, to endeavour to abstract herself from him—to wrap herself up in her own integrity, and trouble herself as little about him as possible.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Chain-store organizations seem to be growing rapidly, however; the largest of the chains, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., reporting in 1921 that it had nearly five thousand branches throughout the country, which sell 40,000,000 pounds of coffee annually.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Upon the furnace were accumulated in disorder, all sorts of vases, earthenware bottles, glass retorts, and mattresses of charcoal.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

For thirty years I have been going round according to regulation.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It may be that a gap will be left in the middle, which, if not too large, can be got rid of without altering the pattern by pushing the whole thing a little further in and so shortening the distance between the two corners.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

But he must be got rid of somehow.
— from Seeing the Elephant by George M. (George Melville) Baker

"He looks at everything in larger angles than any other, and, by good right, should be the greatest man.
— from Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

The people, like some sluggish beast goaded reluctantly into action, began to make tentative movements toward Dennison, impelled by the outraged cries of his pursuers.
— from Forever by Robert Sheckley

M. J. Harty 2 Capt. F. Bald’s b. g. Rosebury, 5 yrs., 10st.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Bruttoverlust gross margin Bruttohandelsspanne gross national product Bruttosozialprodukt gross profit Bruttogewinn gross receipts Bruttoeinnahmen gross salary Bruttogehalt gross weight Bruttogewinn gross yield Bruttoertrag group Gruppe group incentives Gruppenbonus group of banks Bankenkonsortium group piece rate Gruppenakkord group of companies Unternehmensgruppe grow wachsen growth Wachstum growth in consumption Konsumsteigerung growth of population Bevölkerungswachstum growth of saving deposits Spareinlagenzuwachs growth rate Wachstumsrate growth target Wachstumsziel guarantee Bürgschaft; Garante (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

But now I will steal a march on her by making my escape betimes, and I will go this very moment and order my horse to be got ready, to give her the slip, in case she may be meditating anything very disagreeable.
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

You have a solid roof over your head, my good nephew; you have parents and relations who adore you, and faithful servants; you can marry some good little Breton girl, religious and accomplished, who will make you happy.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The charge alleged against him of avarice and extortion in the exaction of illegal fees, appears to have originated in political prejudice, and that of failing to account for sums of money transmitted by the British government, rests on the unsupported assertions of those who were inimical to him.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell