He quite suddenly started for America with money given to him by his mother for another purpose, but when he got as far as Lubeck he turned back.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

In a few minutes He stood by his Master's Bed with the Basket in his hand.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

They received no more than three thousand a year, together with bonuses, but he made out that he paid then seven.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If they lack faith in him, question his motives or knowledge, or even object to his manner they will not be moved by his most logical conclusion and will fail to give him a just hearing.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But hear me soothly speak, O King, And learn the hope to which I cling.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[ Some commentators are ready to suppose that this "Zacharias, the son of Baruch," here most unjustly slain by the Jews in the temple, was the very same person with "Zacharias, the son of Barachias," whom our Savior says the Jews "slew between the temple and the altar," Matthew 23:35.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

“Yes,” said Bobbie—and she saw by her Mother's face how right she had been to bring home the wounded hound in the red jersey.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But he must have been an amazing personality; a man worth traveling far to see.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The scout laughed in his silent but heartfelt manner, and shook his head with vast satisfaction.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

As it were wondering and frightened of this sensation, he raised his head and looked intently at her; but he met her uneasy and painfully anxious eyes fixed on him; there was love in them; his hatred vanished like a phantom.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Bloody Bastille," he muttered.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

He murmured doubtfully: “But he might as well make it.
— from The Golden Flood by Edwin Lefevre

He therefore humbly begged his majesty to furnish him with a horse and money, that he might travel in search of new and strange exploits.
— from Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various

Sep. 'Tis here, 'tis done, behold you fearfull viewers, Shake, and behold the model of the world here, The pride, and strength, look, look again, 'tis finish'd; That, that whole Armies, nay whole nations, Many and mighty Kings, have been struck blind at, And fled before, wing'd with their fears and terrours, That steel war waited on, and fortune courted, That high plum'd honour built up for her own; Behold that mightiness, behold that fierceness, Behold that child of war, with all his glories; By this poor hand made breathless, here (my Achillas )
— from The False One: A Tragedy by John Fletcher

It would be endless to go through all the beauties of this sacred narrative; but any who shall read it, at an hour when he is disengaged from all other regard or interests than what arise from it, will feel the alternate passion of a father, a brother, and a son, so warm in him, that they will incline him to exert himself (in such of those characters as happen to be his) much above the ordinary course of his life.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

The spirit of bitterness has made sad havoc here.
— from Eli and Sibyl Jones, Their Life and Work by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

"Did you say 'the day,'" she softly asked, "or 'the bay'?" "Both," he murmured, and with his two crutches in one hand directed her eyes: to the fleet anchored midway off Morgan, Gaines, and Powell; to the half-dozen gunboats on Mississippi Sound; to others still out in the Gulf, behind Morgan, off Mobile Point; to the blue land force entrenched behind Gaines, and to the dunes east of Morgan, where similar besiegers would undoubtedly soon be landed.
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

Busy men and women, particularly the men, who once thought their affairs would become hopelessly muddled if they were not at the desk each and every day, now indulge in sport, farming or gardening, and horticulture.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index by Cheshire Lowton Boone