In the circus he exhibited chariot and foot races, and combats with wild beasts, in which the performers were often youths of the highest rank.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

" "Really," said Elinor, "I know so little of these kind of forms, that I can hardly even conjecture as to the time, or the preparation necessary; but I suppose two or three months will complete his ordination.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In the majority of cases he even chooses a very early phase of his life, sometime a childhood phase, indeed, laughable as it may appear, a phase of his very suckling existence.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

From Jerusalem he was transferred to Damascus, where he laboured for some years both as a missionary and chaplain to the English community, holding evening classes and meeting the Jews at the book depôt; the latter was once set on fire.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Classification of the Materials The materials in this chapter have been selected to exhibit (1) the rôle which competition plays in social life and all life, and (2) the types of organization that competition has everywhere created as a result of the division of labor it has everywhere enforced.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The best chance he ever came across in his life.”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He studied the composition of food-stuffs, and knew exactly how many proteids and carbohydrates his body needed; and by scientific chewing he said that he tripled the value of all he ate, so that it cost him eleven cents a day.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

His pale face was calm, his eyes closed, and they could see his regular breathing.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

No change of circumstances, however extraordinary, could affect the one great anxiety which weighed on my mind while I was away from London.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[379:A] The exception alluded to consists in a quotation from Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour, first acted in 1599, as an authority for supposing the Second Part of King Henry IV. to have been written in 1598; and it is a remarkable circumstance, that both Mr. Malone and Mr. Chalmers have each committed an error in referring to this passage.
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

But when a writer or speaker may be fairly supposed to have considered his expressions carefully, and, after having revolved a number of terms in his mind, to have chosen the one which exactly means the thing he intends to say, we may be assured that what costs him time to select, will require from us time to understand, and that we shall do him wrong, unless we pause to reflect how the word which he has actually employed differs from other words which it seems he might have employed.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Thus no historian but possesses in a more or less reflective way his theory of history, because, not to put too fine a point upon it, every historian implicitly or explicitly conducts a polemic against other historians (against other 'versions' [Pg 173] and 'judgments' of a fact), and how could he ever conduct a polemic or criticize others if he did not himself possess a conception of what history is and ought to be, to which to refer, a theory of history?
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

At that name, Nathalie trembled and the blood rose to her cheeks; she struggled to conceal her emotion, cast a glance at her dress, and told the maid to admit the visitor.
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

Kennedy, who had been casting his eye carefully about taking in the whole laboratory, seemed delighted to find the slides.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

She rose and began to busy herself shaking up a bed and diving into drawers, bringing clean clothes forth and hanging them over a piece of rope which stretched across the fireplace, so as to air and heat them, the tears streaming from her eyes and occasionally a low moan breaking from her as if forced by some inward pain; while Matthew, nearly overcome with excitement, could only lie back in his chair, his eyes closed and his hands stroking tenderly the wet young head that lay against his knee.
— from The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

He was very considerate; he even called Agatha up on the telephone and talked with her for ten minutes.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Later, when he founded the Agassiz school for boys, at Auburn, California, he established Camp Agassiz near Fallen Leaf Lake, in a grove of pines, firs, and cedars.
— from The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James

She wondered if it could have ever come about by any other means.
— from Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics by Josephine Chase

A pale, sickly-looking woman of about forty was leaning back in her rocking chair, her eyes closed and her lips compressed as if in pain.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe