Brother Charles nodded again, and exchanged a laughing look with brother Ned; but, just then, Nicholas stopped to refer to some other page, and Tim Linkinwater, unable to contain his satisfaction any longer, descended from his stool, and caught him rapturously by the hand.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Then she brought her eyes back to Arkady, who, raising his voice, and bending towards Katia (by whose side he was sitting), continued his reading as before.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Nor even was the kingdom coming to Alexander next, so that when Priam was old the government was in his hands; but Hector, who was both older and more of a man than he, would certainly have received it after the death of Priam; and him it behoved not to allow his brother to go on with his wrong-doing, considering that great evils were coming to pass on his account both to himself privately and in general to the other Trojans.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Constantly he repulsed argument: "Adams, you reason too much!"
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

62 Marching on one occasion, towards Hampi in the Bellary district, where an outbreak of cholera had recently occurred, I came across two wooden gods on wheels by the roadside, to whom had been offered baskets of fruit, vegetables, earthen pots, bead necklets, and bangles, which were piled up in front of them.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

‘Of whom are you jealous, now?’ said I. ‘Thanks to you, Master Copperfield,’ he returned, ‘of no one in particular just at present—no male person, at least.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The cook had received a severe lecture and was in a fearful temper as a result.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

His eye and cheek had resumed their normal appearance; he was not quite so thin; and he had been seen washing his face.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“books sold here”; a = authorised editions; b = gilt-edged; c = having red labels;
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

He was frequently met in the lanes by pedestrians and others without his seeing them, and by degrees the people of the neighbourhood began to talk about his method of combining work and play (such they considered his reading to be), which, though probably convenient enough to himself, was not altogether a safe proceeding for other travellers along the same roads.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

You called her Rosa?"
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

There are evidently two actions in it; but it will be clear to any judicious man, that with half the pains I could have raised a play from either of them; for this time I satisfied my humour, which was to tack two plays together; and to break a rule for the pleasure of variety.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

In the first place she was not young,—not much younger than he, in fact,—and he had addressed her as "miss"; and in the next place his comparing her ribbons to butterflies and humming-birds seemed the same as a personal compliment.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Try to lift one of their baskets, and you will find you can hardly raise it from the ground.
— from A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles

For a long time he took it greatly to heart, but when the work was completed he rejoiced.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

And talking in an undertone, with his arm linked through that of his companion, he related the whole strange story of the visitation of Edris, the Dream of Al-Kyris, his awakening on the Prophet's Field at sunrise, and his final renunciation of Self at the Cross of Christ.
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

Then the chairman called for nominations and Colonel Chenault was pompously nominated by Colonel Shackelford, who closed his remarks by moving that nominations close and the Colonel be unanimously declared the nominee.
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt

On the other hand, this instance admirably illustrates the invariable law that the strength that can be so used is strictly limited by the number of properly fitted ships that the Admiralty can have ready at any given moment.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office