For it is by virtue of his reasoning faculty that man does not live in the present only, like the brute, but looks about him and considers the past and the future; and this is the origin of prudence, as well as of that care and anxiety which so many people exhibit.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

An hour ago on the sand-shore he had been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“It ought to have been light an hour ago by the calendar, and it’s still almost night,” she said irritably.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The boy looked at her as if he understood; then, suddenly stooping, he picked up a fallen stick and proceeded to give the door several smart raps upon its oaken panels.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Yet I might reply, 'Yes, Spartans, that is not your vice; but look at home and remember the licentiousness of your women.'
— from Laws by Plato

'Tis strange that an Indian should be lost atwixt Horican and the bend in the river!
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

This sentiment had been uttered so often in vain that Mrs. Allen had no particular reason to hope it would be followed with more advantage now; but we are told to “despair of nothing we would attain,” as “unwearied diligence our point would gain”; and the unwearied diligence with which she had every day wished for the same thing was at length to have its just reward, for hardly had she been seated ten minutes before a lady of about her own age, who was sitting by her, and had been looking at her attentively for several minutes, addressed her with great complaisance in these words: “I think, madam, I cannot be mistaken; it is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you, but is not your name Allen?”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

To have no wife is not to be uxorious, play the coward, and be lazy about her, and not for her sake to distain the lustre of that affection which man owes to God, or yet for her to leave those offices and duties which he owes unto his country, unto his friends and kindred, or for her to abandon and forsake his precious studies, and other businesses of account, to wait still on her will, her beck, and her buttocks.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

[ 121 ] We ate with the same signs and ceremonies, after which we went to the palace of the king which was built like a hayloft and was thatched with fig [ i.e. , banana] and palm leaves.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Brocklehurst looked at him as he repeated the word.
— from The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys by Forrest Reid

That the shiriffewike of Lincolne, which the lord chancellour had assigned vnto William de Stuteuille should be restored to Gerard de Camuille, who had a daie appointed him to appéere in the kings court, to heare what might be laid against him: and if such matter could be prooued, for the which he ought to loose the said shiriffewike and the castell of Lincolne, then he should depart from them by the iudgement of the court, or else not.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (06 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed

There I saw the busy little ants hard at work on the ground below; the patient, dull, brown toads snapping flies in the sunshine; the striped caterpillars lazily crawling up the trunk of the tree; and dozens of merry birds getting ready for housekeeping.
— from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The post-mistress knew that Mrs. Bennet lived at Hounslow; and this was fortunate.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

“Look.” Baisemeaux looked, and his arms dropped suddenly.
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

She spoke of the school in tones of rapture to the new girls, who barely looked at her and scarcely listened.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

When she went back Lincoln again had a conspicuous position as pilot.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various

Estelle devours now, and the worst is that it will be four or five years before Lénore and Henri are old enough to come to the pit."
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

Lady Biddy looked at him, and he at her, wetting his lips, as one with a dainty dish set before him that he would fain eat of.
— from The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now First Done Into Print by Frank Barrett

At the same time it is extremely convenient and to a certain extent justifiable on physical and psychological grounds; and it may be said roughly that while the linguistic uniformity of the Bantu is accompanied by great variation of physical type, the converse is in the main true of the Negro proper, especially where least affected by Libyan and Hamitic admixture, e.g. on the Guinea coast.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg