As I have said before, she was not a child who had been trained to ask permission or consult her elders about things.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Let my reader," he adds, "close his eyes and think of an extended object, for instance a pencil .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It would seem, however, that a man under the influence of a strong passion of resentment can hardly exclude from his mind altogether an anticipation of the pleasure that he will feel when the passion is gratified; and if so, he can hardly exclude altogether the desire of this gratification.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In summe, he that holdeth this Foundation, Jesus Is The Christ, holdeth Expressely all that hee seeth rightly deduced from it, and Implicitely all that is consequent thereunto, though he have not skill enough to discern the consequence.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Emily, will you not speak to me?' He covered his face with his hand, as if to conceal his emotion, and took Emily's, which she did not withdraw.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The origin of this name is from the trivial occurrence of the expelled prince of Chitor having erected a town to commemorate the spot, where after an extraordinarily hard chase he killed a hare ( sasu ).
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The applause of the magistrates and people confirmed his election, and the ecclesiastical power that was obeyed in Sweden and Britain had been ultimately derived from the suffrage of the Romans.
— 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

She half closed her eyes and tried to think it was nothing, that Columbia City was only a little way off.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The rage of the Arabs confirmed his evidence; and the self-devoted patriot was transpierced with a hundred spears.
— 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

The previous cycle having ended – and the new one just began – the economic environment is as uncertain as can be.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

To this Luther replied as before, that General Councils had erred, and that his conscience did not allow him to retract.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

When he parted from his five brothers, he went to the deep cavern which lies among the mountains west of the river of the Nanticokes, and into this cavern he entered at the time of nightfall.
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones

But I often thought, since my own self came back, how lucky it was Lucy had her mother to close her eyes, and the same for poor Henry.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

He lifted his hand, and closed his eyes, and the congregation leaned forward against the fronts of the pews.
— from Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

That a man should have compensation sufficient to furnish him with such food, raiment and shelter as are essential to keep him in good working condition; also, in addition, enough to enable him to support a wife (with what she can herself earn), and to rear at least two children, themselves prepared to become laborers; and to make some additional allowances for probable periods of sickness and inability to labor.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

His wife coached him evidently about the menu.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

Could he ever after this day approach her with the old confidence?
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

We came home exactly at twelve—and Marion (That was his wife) was fast asleep in the sheets.
— from Feline Philosophy by Walter Léon Hess