They would see her agitation; and the dairyman, thinking the cause to be love alone, would good-naturedly tease her; and that harassment could not be borne.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Of late she had managed not to be left alone with Gilbert.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And there be lions all white, great and mighty.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

To ask whether God was the maker of it, or made by it, would be like asking whether God could be conceived apart from goodness, or goodness apart from God.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

On New Year’s Eve, which is Saint Sylvester’s Day, Bohemian lads, armed with guns, form themselves into circles and fire thrice into the air.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The hall was not dark, nor yet was it lit, only by the high-hung bronze lamp; a warm glow suffused both it and the lower steps of the oak staircase.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

For as the devastation of the country went on, crowds began to collect and abuse Antigonus: but like a wise general and king, he refused to allow any consideration to outweigh that of sound strategy, and persisted in remaining inactive.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

—Dissolve one ounce of camphor in two pounds of hog's lard, observing to take off the scum; then mix as much black lead as will give the mixture an iron color.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

It was not easy to do, however, and they were obliged to pass quite close by the party towards which Rose had been looking, and which Graeme had intended to avoid.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

“Boys aren’t to be trusted; they shouldn’t be left alone with girls, shouldn’t .”
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

Such an opportunity was [63] not to be lost, and we gladly availed ourselves of the Raja's offer to accompany the expedition.
— from On the Equator by Harry De Windt

[462] Telling Mirza Sayyid Ali one day that I wished to return to the city in the evening, to be alone and at leisure for prayer, he said with seriousness, ‘Though a man had no other religious society I suppose he might, with the aid of the Bible, live alone with God?’
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

Follow this with 3 tablespoonfuls of best lard, and with good milk, mix into soft dough—working as little as possible.
— from Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes by H. J. Clayton

In the North, worms are kept in a container that may be located anywhere with good ventilation and temperatures that stay above freezing but do not get too hot.
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

Lately, indeed, she has come more into the world, but without even a desire of improvement, and with no view and no thought but to gratify her idle humour by laughing at whatever goes forward.”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney