"He would disappoint everybody who counted on him: I can see that at the Hospital.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He was inclined to suspect the derangement of his senses: yet the general tenor of his conduct, the connexion of his ideas, and calmness of his demeanour till the moment of his quitting the Grotto, seemed to discountenance this conjecture.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

When the Florentines heard of his return, knowing that he would lose no time, they decided to intercept him with their forces in the Val di Nievole, under the belief that by doing so they would cut off his road to Pistoia.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

He permitted the emperor to pledge the abbey lands for five hundred thousand crowns, to assist in carrying on hostilities against the protestants.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

For without doubt doctrines of belief that are based only on authority, miracles, and revelation are only of use and suitable to the childhood of humanity.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

I shall always remember him as seen through the open door of my room, taking, perhaps, too much to heart the mere consequences of his failure.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

It was not pleasant, but a better spirit had come over her, and presently a chance offered for proving it.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I sent back orders to the "plum-bushes" to bring our horses and saddles up to this house, and an orderly to conduct our headquarter wagons to the same place.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The Choice of Heracles.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The dishes were generally made with handles, either fixed or movable, by which they could be carried or hung on pegs when not in use, and the red unglazed basins bore inscriptions, in cursive character, running round the interior in many lines to the bottom.
— from Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients by Charles Martyn

Mr. Sinclair’s health was delicate; his mind, considering that he was a clever and very successful merchant, pre-eminently so; and the choice of his confidential clerk, puzzled Mr. George Lumsden and his principal sadly.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

On that day, indeed, he was expected in Burgos, the city of his ancestors, and Ximena, who, after the receipt of such good news, had not been able to sleep during the night, arose at dawn, and placed herself at the window of her apartment, desirous that her eyes might be the first to see Rod
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

From the time she had quitted us my father and I had avoided mention of her; but during his illness he asked me to write in case of his death, and gave me her New York address, from which I inferred that in some way he had kept himself informed concerning her, though I feel very certain that she had never [Pg 80] written him.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

She read it in his eyes, in the touch of his fingers, and in the resonant tones of his voice, but she read too, the sense of his power, the confidence of his egotism to which all things were possible.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

“We haven’t had any news,” admitted the field manager, “but you know Ralph well enough to realize that he can take care of himself in almost any kind of an emergency.”
— from The Sky Trail by Graham M. Dean

His football triumphs were in the past, his continued baseball successes a foregone conclusion—if he won to-night his cup of happiness, and an unassailably dominant position among his fellows, would be assured, leaving nothing more, in so far as Jimmy reasoned, to be desired from four years attendance at one of America’s oldest and most famous universities.
— from The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The construction of houses, both as to material and design, was regulated by law.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

At almost any hour of the day he could be found vigorously carrying on his insect hunt in this singular fashion.
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

Evidently the care of his wife and his wife's mother, and the prospect of a visit from the stork at once reducing the family income and materially increasing the outgo, had quieted the effervescence of his youth and set him thinking.
— from The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country by Samuel Merwin