But, at last, he rose, and after listening intently to his wife, he decided that it was a bad business, and that it could not be left as it now stood.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

They talked very moderately about their expulsion, and the wrench it was to leave the old monastery and begin life again in new surroundings.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

Loudon says the original Colewort seems to be lost, and is now succeeded by what are called "Cabbage Coleworts."
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

Other national banks in this country are known to be desirous of aiding in the financing of foreign trade, but have not up to this time found it practicable to take action under the provisions of the banking law as it now stands.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

When burning, this oil affords a clear, bright light, and is not so offensive to the smell as train and other common lamp oils.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

any of you!" "Well, it does beat—" "Laws alive, I never—" "So help me, I wouldn't 'a' be—" " House -thieves as well as—" "Goodnessgracioussakes, I'd 'a' ben afeard to live in sich a—" "Fraid to live!
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

Michael Angelo, knowing that the Gonfaloniere was close under the statue and that from this point of view the truth was not to be discerned, mounted the scaffolding, [pg 119] which was as high as the shoulder of the giant, and quickly took a chisel in his left hand with a little of the marble dust from the platform and began to let fall a little of it at each touch of the tool, but he did not alter the nose from what it was before; then he looked down to the Gonfaloniere, who stood watching below: 'Look at it now,' said Michael Angelo.
— from Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda by Holroyd, Charles, Sir

"Well, it does beat—" "Laws alive, I never—" "So help me, I wouldn't a be—" "HOUSE-thieves as well as—" "Goodnessgracioussakes, I'd a ben afeard to live in sich a—" "'Fraid to LIVE!—why, I was that scared I dasn't hardly go to bed, or get up, or lay down, or SET down, Sister Ridgeway.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 36 to the Last by Mark Twain