Her prolonged absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Now let us be lashed for it, if we must.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

“I thought I'd dodge your British law; for I was not sure how I stood under it, and also I saw my chance to throw these hounds once for all off my track.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

She kindly facilitated the handshake by leaning far out of her window, so that I could take her hand as I stood on my ledge.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

In his affairs of the heart Mr Verloc had been always carelessly generous, yet always with no other idea than that of being loved for himself.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

You’ll have nothing but Lenten food all through the fast!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And if their words had taken another turn...if he himself had been less fastidious about intruding on another man's secrets...
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had hitherto received might be looked for.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

I then ordered those fellows off, and they verry readily Cleared out they are of the War-ci-a-cum N. Colter informed us that "it was but a Short distance from where we lay around the point to a butifull Sand beech, which continud for a long ways, that he had found a good harber in the mouth of a creek near 2 Indian Lodgesthat he had proceeded in the Canoe as far as he could for the waves, the other two men Willard & Shannon had proceeded on down" Capt Lewis concluded to proceed on by land & find if possible the white people the Indians Say is below and examine if a Bay is Situated near the mouth of this river as laid down by Vancouver in which we expect, if there is white traders to find them &c. at 3 oClock he Set out with 4 men Drewyer Jos. & Reu.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Walter could read but little, for his eyes were weak after the fight; but his thoughts and his nursing of his little friend kept him occupied.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Told in Pictures by L. Frölich , and in Rhymes by Tom Hood .
— from Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue. September 1874 Of Works in Belles Lettres, Including Poetry, Fiction, Etc. by Macmillan & Co.

But it is sadly too plain to observation, and to the experience of some of us, that obstacles grow with years, that habits and associations grip with increasing power, that in all things our natures become less flexible, the supple sapling becoming gnarled and tough, that a middle-aged or old man is more inextricably 'tied and bound by the cords of his sins,' than a young one is.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

When I arrived at Paderborn , in the Beginning of January 1761, the Fever was upon the Decline in the General Hospitals, though it was still rife; but by sending off a Party of Convalescents to Hervorden , which thinned the Hospitals, it became less frequent, and but few died.
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

Under such conditions the movements could only [274] be guided by general instructions, and even the leaders of lower grades had to be left free to act at their own individual discretion.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

If you Germans do not give that crowned swindler, whose fall I have been looking for ever since the coup d'etat, such a blow as he will never recover from, I will never forgive you.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Bame lay flat in the cart and escaped injury, but the driver fell back stunned, with the reins in his nerveless hands.
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

I am not one who greatly cares for experience, soap, bull-dogs, cautions, majorities, or a graduated Income-Tax, The certainty of space, punctuation, sexes, institutions, copiousness, degrees, committees, delicatesse, or the fetters of rhyme— For none of these do I care: but least for the fetters of rhyme.
— from Green Bays. Verses and Parodies by Arthur Quiller-Couch

What was I, or my generation, That I should get sic exaltation, I wha deserve most just damnation For broken laws, Five thousand years ere my creation, Thro' Adam's cause?
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns