There was something about the eye of the man before me, something so keen and knowledgeable, that I could not find a word.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

[A1PB; c] become, make s.t. of public knowledge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The same obscurity also hides the old familiar indecencies of the statues on the terrace; but there is a door, and it opens and shuts behind me smartly.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

I’ve always jumped on sentiment—and here I am being more sentimental than anybody.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

“Why then,” says she, “I have been with your young lady, and have explained all matters to her, as they were told to me by my son Nightingale.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

-----------------------------277.png---------------------------- pet-i , to request, beg, ask. petol-i , to be mischievous, saucy, roguish.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

If I retire, I burn my ships.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The more resolved she seemed to gain the victory, the more firmly I was determined to humiliate her, as it appeared to me the only other alternative would have been my shame and dishonour; and this turned me to stone.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"At that time," says Leonard Aretin, 98 "I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters; and I bestowed some application on the sciences of logic and rhetoric.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He kept muttering to himself, “Offal Court—that is the name; if I can but find it before my strength is wholly spent and I drop, then am I saved—for his people will take me to the palace and prove that I am none of theirs, but the true prince, and I shall have mine own again.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Can such scenes be mimicked successfully enough to preserve a serious frame of mind in the observer?
— from A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel

The above applies to the Work as incorporated in a Collective Work, but this does not require the Collective Work apart from the Work itself to be made subject to the terms of this License.
— from Home Again, Home Again by Cory Doctorow

I was soon sent by Mr. Scott to Altoona to get the monthly pay-rolls and checks.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

On the night preceding the 19th of April, general Gage detached lieutenant colonel Smith, and major Pitcairn, with the grenadiers and light infantry of the army, amounting to eight or nine hundred men, with orders to destroy some military stores which had been collected at Concord, about eighteen miles from Boston, notwithstanding the secrecy and dispatch which were used, the country was alarmed by messengers sent out by Doctor Warren; Battle of Lexington.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Experiments have already been made with the dual-engine plant for aeroplanes, notably by Messrs. Short Brothers, of Rochester, and the tests have given every satisfaction.
— from The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton

The bigger mouse she called Tib, and the lesser Jone.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

They had possession of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, but those positions had not yet been made strongholds by elaborate fortifications.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

Dead swooned he, woke Anon, heaved sigh, made shift to gasp, heartbroke, "Get thee behind me, Satan!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare his learning Peda.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare