Kit, having been apprised by letter of his mother’s intended return, was waiting for her at the coach-office; and great was his surprise when he saw, leering over the coachman’s shoulder like some familiar demon, invisible to all eyes but his, the well-known face of Quilp.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The superior security of land, together with some other advantages which almost everywhere attend upon this species of property, will generally dispose him to content himself with a smaller revenue from land, than what he might have by lending out his money at interest.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to try the future good or bad luck of his marriage by dreams.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Des Barrets emptied his glass at a single draught and replaced it on the table, while he sucked in the foam that had been left on his mustache.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Either his mother's birth had been low, or his mother's reputation was damaged by some hidden flaw with which Mrs. Catherick and Sir Percival were both privately acquainted?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If the words had been less offensive he might have forgiven them, so pleased was he to see Lizabetha Prokofievna worried and anxious about the prince’s illness.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His brother John was in as bad a case, for he was quite out, and had only begged leave of his master, the biscuit-maker, to lodge in an outhouse belonging to his workhouse, where he only lay upon straw, with some biscuit-sacks, or bread-sacks, as they called them, laid upon it, and some of the same sacks to cover him.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

It has the broad liberality of her more elaborate work on the same subject, and in the mellow light of life's sunset her words seem touched with a tender pathos and beauty.
— from Personal Sketches and Tributes Part 2 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Des Barrets emptied his glass at a single draught and replaced it on the table, sucking in the drops of beer that had been left on his mustache.
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

2 He then acknowledges the impression which this book left on his mind; and its having given rise to the present work, to which, in our humble opinion, it is a worthy companion.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) by Various

However this may be, the truth of the beautiful legend of his mother can, I fear, be never proved or disproved.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

By L. O. Howard, M. Sc., Assistant, Bureau of Entomology.
— from Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Charles V. (Charles Valentine) Riley

The impulsive girl chafes under the new relationship, being unwilling to share with another the bounteous love of her mother which she had learned to claim wholly for her own.
— from A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison