Then began, logically and actually, the persecution of those Christians, who through all the centuries of repression and prohibition had continued their existence, and kept their faith however mixed and clouded.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The bishop looked anxiously at the man sobbing in the ingle-nook.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

His stile, however, was more severe than Mr Allworthy's: he told his pupil, “That he ought to look on his broken limb as a judgment from heaven on his sins.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The smaller canoes, beached near the sea-front in long parallel rows, are ready to be launched at any moment.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The child forced into premature concern with economic remote results may develop a surprising sharpening of wits in a particular direction, but this precocious specialization is always paid for by later apathy and dullness.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Mr. Harrison had brought Ginger back, averring that the poor bird would be lonesome; and Anne, feeling that she could forgive everybody and everything, offered him a walnut.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I implied, by a sort of supplicatory gesture, that it was my prayer to be let alone; after that, had he persisted, he would perhaps have seen the spectacle of Lucy incensed: not all that was grand, or good, or kind in him (and Lucy felt the full amount) should have kept her quite tame, or absolutely inoffensive and shadowlike.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Instead of it even—as a woman reads another—she could see what I myself saw: his derision, his amusement, his contempt for the breakdown of my resignation at being left alone and for the fine machinery I had set in motion to attract his attention to my slighted charms.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Then I shall build a barrier of wires around my home, and across the paths which lead to my home; a barrier light as a cobweb, more impassable than a wall of granite; a barrier my brothers will never be able to cross.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

A helmet falls from the moon—so, my Lord, your father says; but Lopez and all the servants say that this young spark is a magician, and stole it from Alfonso’s tomb—” “Have done with this rhapsody of impertinence,” said Matilda.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

"So you came to see the circus?" went on Tum Tum to Don, as the dog's master and his boy looked about at the strange sights.
— from Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant: His Many Adventures by Richard Barnum

And the master was there, and John McNider—” “But the master didna bide long; and as for John—if you give him a chance to make a speech, that is all he needs—” “Whisht, Davie lad, and take the good of things.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

After prohibition, however, a far from unpleasant club house was founded, with lots of “dangerous” reading material, and a segregated place for homemade music, and bright lights and a fire, and a place to write letters, and a pungent odor of something like syndicalism in the air.
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

In London I shall privately obtain the best legal advice as to the course I should pursue, and we shall then quietly await the denouement .
— from The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2 by Johannes Scotus

There was always one boy, larger and also naughtier than the rest, who thrashed the thrashers and took their pennies away from them.
— from Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

The blade of his sword made glittering rings about Wogan's, and the point struck at his breast like an adder.
— from Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

By law, after all, he knew he should check in and out at the main gate of the huge, ultra-top-secret government reservation whenever he visited Yucca Flats.
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

“So our prince went home; his head full of being like Alexander and all the rest of them, and he sent for his good old tutor to reckon up his armies, and see whom he could conquer in order to win her.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge