Medical aid was now really needed, and Madame, choosing to ignore the return of Dr. Pillule, who had been at home a week, conjured his English rival to continue his visits.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Her parents have a large family: they occupy such a station and possess such connections as, in their opinion, demand display; stringent necessity of circumstances and inherent thoughtlessness of disposition combined, have engendered reckless unscrupulousness as to how they obtain the means of sustaining a good appearance.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Pictures like these, dear madam, to design, Asks no firm hand, and no unerring line; Some wandering touches, some reflected light, Some flying stroke alone can hit ’em right: For how should equal colours do the knack?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

This man persuaded Andokides to inform against himself and some few others, because, by a decree of the people, any one who acted as informer was to be given a free pardon, whereas no one could count upon the results of a trial, which the more prominent citizens had especial reasons for dreading.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Mahingpit giyud ang átung pagpahúlay kun makap-us na ang átung kinabúhì, We can have eternal rest when our life is over.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He refused the title of king; but as Lord Protector of the English commonwealth, he exercised royal power.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When she had finished this, practised a dimple, and put on her things, she cast her eyes round upon Jude.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The reformation of the gold coin has evidently raised the value of the silver coin which can be exchanged for it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The whole of our sociology knows no other instinct than that of the herd, i.e., of a multitude of mere ciphers —of which every cipher has "equal rights," and where it is a virtue to be——naught....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Blande Senex, quem Musa fovet, seu seria tractas, Seu facili indulges quæ propiora joco; Promeritos liceat Vates tibi condat honores, Et recolat vitæ præmia justa tuæ: Præparet haud quovis lectas de flore corollas, Sed benè Nestoreis serta gerenda comis.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

He cast his eyes round the field: "Where," said he, "is our general?"
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

Close by the neck lay the rest of the broken bottle, whose contents had evidently run out into the snow.
— from A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men by William John Locke

Harrison gave Alfred the first copy of the New York Clipper he ever read, probably the only amusement paper in the United States at that time.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

Ladies considered him enchantingly romantic, but he did not cultivate ladies' acquaintance....
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"If one of those servants should chance to meet me, how could he ever recognize me in this costume?
— from Gerfaut — Volume 1 by Charles de Bernard

He blindly reverenced, without ability fully to comprehend, her exalted religious fervor and the quietude of soul that it brought.
— from Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Currency code: HRK Exchange rates: kuna per US dollar - 8.452 (January 2002), 8.340 (2001), 8.277 (2000), 7.112 (1999), 6.362 (1998), 6.101 (1997)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

She started at the sound of a new voice, she looked round,—but what was the astonishment of Albany to see who it was!—He stept back,-he came forward,—he doubted his own senses,—he looked at her earnestly,—he turned from her to look at the woman of the house,—he cast his eyes round the room itself, and then, lifting up his hands, “O sight of woe!”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

He cast his eyes round wildly, and staggered to his feet.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

I can hardly expect readers of this rambling narrative to be better versed in such matters than those men of Atlantic City.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins