The Canadian rushed on to the stairs, but I stopped him.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

If any of our refined and Christian readers object to the society into which this scene introduces them, let us beg them to begin and conquer their prejudices in time.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In seven years he could remember only two that seemed to have any meaning for him, and he never knew what that meaning was.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The cruel remembrance of this transaction, sometimes so troubles and disorders me, that, in my disturbed slumbers, I imagine I see this poor girl enter and reproach me with my crime, as though I had committed it but yesterday.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What was the use, they would ask, of wasting time and energy and a possible carfare riding out to the stockyards every night when the weather was pleasant and they could crawl under a truck or into an empty doorway and sleep exactly as well?
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

859 shows the first row of stitches, the light, the second, or rather the third and fourth, as four rows of stitches are required to make one complete row of triangular Turkish stitch.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Even now, when the building octopus, with its stucco tentacles, has clutched and sucked in so many a fair surrounding green field, from these windows not a roof, not a chimney meets the eye; not an echo, even, of the ceaseless roar of the traffic strikes the ear.
— from Kensington Palace, the birthplace of the Queen being an historical guide to the state rooms, pictures and gardens by Ernest Law

It is a piece of fine coloring, rather of the Titian school, and one of the few good pictures left by the English, who have bought up almost all the private galleries of Venice.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

In order to avoid breaking the sense of this song by a constant repetition of those typographical signs which point a reference to foot-notes, we have deemed it best to give a complete glossary:— Lip us a chant.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

These rollers act in a peculiar manner; the first pair pass the cotton at a certain rate on to the second pair, which would pass it on to the third unchanged if they revolved at the same rate as the first pair, but they are turned a little faster, and therefore stretch the fillet of cotton at an even and regular rate, and in such a manner that it is not broken; the third pair, going faster than the second, again stretch the fillet.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

Then another car squirmed out of the ruck of vehicles and came rolling on to the sward.
— from Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

Whenever they had a job to do in the house, they were constantly running out to the shop for something, so that a tool box became a necessity.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

Suddenly there was a pistol shot; startled cries rang out; the throng split as though divided by a great knife.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre