Only of course he is not given a free outlet for it, and he is no hand at boasting.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Chichikov himself is now generally regarded as a universal character.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Vainly attempt to think of any simple plant, or flower, or wholesome weed that, set in this fetid bed, could have its natural growth or put its little leaves off to the sun as God designed it.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

The boy gazed upon the woman in surprise, but she did not seem to realize the presence of another than I. She would have thrown her arms about my neck and smothered me with caresses, had I not gently but firmly disengaged myself.
— from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"I came home in Nonie Grosbeck's automobile.
— from The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

'I wish Audrey would go too, but I am afraid she will not leave Cyril; he is not going away this vacation.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The change, however, is not great.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

This conclusion, however, is not generally valid.
— from Lectures on Stellar Statistics by C. V. L. (Carl Vilhelm Ludwig) Charlier

The yellow colour, however, is not given by the propolis, and it is not certain to what it is owing.—The bees sometimes mix wax and propolis and make an amalgam, known to the ancients and called by them Mitys and Pissoceros , which they use in rebuilding cells that have been destroyed, in order to strengthen and support the edifice
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Many were the reasons given for the nonpayment, and in a speech delivered in 1843, at the Court House in Natchez, Governor Tucker told his audience not to think for a moment that the real great seal of the state was affixed to those "fictitious and unconstitutional bonds."
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

As for the child, he is not ' grubbing for beauties'; he magnificently ignores what he cannot for the moment understand, being intent on What Is, the heart and secret of the adventure.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch