Towards nightfall, however, fever supervened, and his head began to ache; with the result that when the doctor arrived from the town (Nikolai Petrovitch had disobeyed his brother in this respect, and Bazarov also had consented to his doing so, in that, after paying the patient a single visit, and that a very brief one, and being put to the mortification of having to avoid Thenichka on two occasions when he met her, he had felt that he preferred to spend the rest of the day in loneliness, bitterness, and rancour)—when the doctor arrived from the town he advised a cooling draught, but at the same time confirmed Bazarov's opinion that no danger was to be apprehended.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

She continued with her foster parents, and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The tables and chairs were put in their places, and the cups and plates were arranged in proper order; and, after the mother, her daughter and the cousins had finished their meal, Pao-yü bade good-bye to Chia She and returned home in company with all the young ladies; and when they had said good-night to dowager lady Chia, madame Wang and the others, they each went back into their rooms and retired to rest; where we shall leave them without any further comment and speak of Chia Yün's visit to the mansion.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

But if these rules are further understood (as they sometimes are understood) to prescribe the cultivation of a habit of acting rationally; that is, of referring each act to definitely conceived principles and ends, instead of allowing it to be determined by instinctive impulses; then I cannot see that the affirmation of [345] this as an universal and absolute rule of duty is self-evidently true.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Later we built in the rear and put in two cylinders of the Chris Abele type, having stationary fronts and filling and emptying from the front end.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If now this universal validity is not to be based on any collecting of the suffrages of others, or on any questioning of them as to the kind of sensations they have, but is to rest, as it were, on an autonomy of the judging subject in respect of the feeling of pleasure (in the given representation), i.e. on his own taste, and yet is not to be derived from concepts; then a judgement like this—such as the judgement of taste is, in fact—has a twofold logical peculiarity.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

So that’s how it stands!” cried Luzhin, utterly unable to the last moment to believe in the rupture and so completely thrown out of his reckoning now.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There were beds in these rooms and the sick and wounded officers were lying or sitting on them.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There was but one light burning in the room, and Mr. Vane sat in his accustomed chair in the corner, alone.
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2 by Winston Churchill

“Yes, señora, it seems a free-will offering, and he said to tell you it would be in the room adjoining this that Perez would be questioned as to the war material.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

I apprize him, 'That I am connived at in sending this letter (although no one has seen the contents) provided it shall be the last I will ever write to him: that I had more than once told him, that the single life was my choice; and this before Mr. Solmes was introduced as a visitor in our family: that Mr. Wyerley, and other gentlemen, knew it to be my choice, before himself was acquainted with any of us: that I had never been induced to receive a line from him on the subject, but that I thought he had not acted ungenerously by my brother; and yet had not been so handsomely treated by my friends, as he might have expected: but that had he even my friends on his side, I should have very great objections to him, were I to get over my choice of a single life, so really preferable to me as it is; and that I should have declared as much to him, had I not regarded him
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

Very likely circuses have grown not only in size, but in the richness and variety of their entertainments, and I was spoiled for the simple joys of this.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

After the oyster-spatting season is over, that is about the middle of September, the Corporation holds a meeting on board a boat in the river, and proclaims the fishery to be open.
— from Some of Our East Coast Towns by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

("Yes sir.") (b.) Another way of calculating is to skip about the column, adding those numbers which you can do most easily, and then bringing in the rest as you best can.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

West Hill was a long hill with several bends in the road and a number of very sharp descents, between which were long stretches where the road ran downward, but in a gradual incline.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

But in this respect also our author fails to realize our hopes.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

There was no evidence of luxury, or anything especially marvelous, and Jim immediately guessed that the rooms were arranged for such an emergency; a time when guests could be in the real Amy-Ran fastness without actually seeing anything which would appear out of the ordinary.
— from Airplane Boys at Platinum River by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

In a fit of petty passion I flung the toil-worn boot into the ravine, and began the descent by way of the spur to the west.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield