The daring Cyrus Field, who had risked his whole fortune to promote this undertaking, called for a new bond issue.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

So far Anselmo had written, and thus it was plain that at this point, before he could finish what he had to say, his life came to an end.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

James, brooding in a small chair from which his knees ran uphill, shifted his feet uneasily, and put one of them down on the cat, which had unwisely taken refuge from old Jolyon beside him.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Κηρίον, ου, τό, (κηρός, beeswax) a honeycomb; a comb filled with honey, Lu. 24.42.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

"I caught fish with hook and line and pole.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Counsel for the prisoner was allowed to urge everything that could be said in his defence: the line taken was that the prisoner was simulating consumption in order to defraud an insurance company, from which he was about to buy an annuity, and that he hoped thus to obtain it on more advantageous terms.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“On the contrary, you told me that I was doing well to frequent Capitan Tiago’s house and cultivate friendship with him, because he’s rich—and you told me—” “What!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

She frowns a little—not in anger, but as a brave child frowns when he is trying not to cry.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The launch came on slowly, and her crew fortunately were hardly noticing the boat.
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

Uncle George then divided the crocus flower with his knife from top to bottom.
— from The 'Look About You' Nature Study Books, Book 4 [of 7] by Thomas W. Hoare

During her long illness, her beautiful head had been shorn of its ripply wealth of auburn curls, and, as she lay languidly on the soft cushions of her luxuriant couch, few would have recognized in that wasted form the once radiant Edith Malcome.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

They may, however, be entirely opposed to popular liberties, and may conclude from what has been said, not that the stage should be made as free as the church, press, or platform, but that these institutions should be censored as strictly as the stage.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw

“None better,” cried Fairthorn, who had sidled himself into the group; “there’s a note on the Branthwaite genealogy, sir, in your father’s great work upon ‘Monumental Brasses.’
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Advancing from the Hunting-lodge, the Würtembergers took 200 French prisoners at Maison Blanche; though, on the other hand, an attempt to carry the heights in front of Champigny with the companies assembled at Coeuilly failed with heavy loss.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

What is the meaning of it all—and what is this ?" he said, while he stooped down to pick up the crystal flacon which had dropped out of its case on the floor.
— from May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

The innkeeper came forward, wiping his hands on his apron.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

The sorrow about his death was the greater, because he had not thrown himself down from some high cliff, from whence he would have gone to Valhalla, as he had never been fated by the No
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu