Although I should not have thought of making, in that place, the most distant reference by so much as a look to Wemmick's Walworth sentiments, yet I should have had no objection to catching his eye now and then in a friendly way.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The recent events, the solitary and eccentric position of the count, his enormous, nay, almost incredible fortune, should have made men cautious, and have altogether prevented ladies visiting a house where there was no one of their own sex to receive them; and yet curiosity had been enough to lead them to overleap the bounds of prudence and decorum.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl—she is almost pretty today,” were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds!
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Her soft low voice called him endearing names and he dreamed that his mother had come to him and that she had changed so that she was always as she had been that time after he ran away.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

What direction? ATHENIAN: When any one commits any injustice, small or great, the law will admonish and compel him either never at all to do the like again, or never voluntarily, or at any rate in a far less degree; and he must in addition pay for the hurt.
— from Laws by Plato

He fingered the pages idly for a few minutes and then laid it aside and half closed his eyes, nodding and smiling placidly.
— from Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by Lawrence Perry

Her son came to the country as a Spaniard and the brother of the hated Philip on the day of the most abominable crime history ever narrated, and which his followers committed; and who stood higher in the hearts of the people of the Netherlands than their beloved helper in need, their "Father William"?
— from Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10 by Georg Ebers

He dictated to him the whole evidence, most minutely and accurately, correcting himself every now and then to substitute a better word, or to improve his style.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

As they hastily dressed the boys could hear, every now and then, a terrific crash like a heavy burst of thunder.
— from The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer by John Henry Goldfrap

And he began to notice Susette, to come home early now and then, in time to see her take her bath or to sit on the floor and build houses of blocks, he knew about building houses, and he could do fascinating things which made his small daughter stare at him in grave admiration.
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

The writer, here, purports to examine [174] into his Mistress's perfections, but, like the author of the epistle to the Countess, he examines not at all,—he observes the reticence for which Beaumont there had given the reason,— Nor do the virtuous-minded (which I swear Madam, I think you are) endure to hear Their own perfections into question brought, But stop their ears at them.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

“Indeed, I can scarcely tell you—sich groans, an' wild shoutins, an' shrieks, man's ears never hard in this world, I think; there I hard them as I was comin' past the trees, an' afther I passed them; an' when I left them far behind me, I could hear, every now and then, a wild shriek that made my blood run cowld.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

The Governor cocked his episcopalian nose at him.
— from The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport by Arthur Conan Doyle