When Mrs. Shimerda saw us coming, she ran from her door down into the draw behind the stable, as if she did not want to meet us.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Could she refrain from warning her lover against her, day after day, like one draws attention to a danger, a scourge, or a tempest?
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Lucan was so delighted with the writings of Persius Flaccus, that he could scarcely refrain from giving loud tokens of applause while the author was reciting them, and declared that they had the true spirit of poetry.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But when the same power is already in possession of all the attributes of the Government, it can scarcely refrain from penetrating into the details of the administration, and an opportunity of doing so is sure to present itself in the end, as was the case in France.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Might there not be some curious scientific reason for it all?
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Several European officers have visited the Mishmee country for a few days, and have been desirous of proceeding by this route over the mountains north into the Lama country, or Thibet; to ascertain whether the celebrated Sampoo river flows into the Burrampooter from this quarter, or debouches into the Dehong, below Suddeah, or takes its course, as has been surmised, through China.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

There came sudden revulsion from the hope that had begun once again to throb in the public pulse.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

Unpleasant consequences sometimes result from the simple operation of opening the temporal artery, and occasionally also from accidental wounds of that vessel.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

He knew why Lambert had offered it, because he considered Sylvia removed from any possible unpleasant aftermath of the dark ages.
— from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp

When the life of the murderer was spared, he had to observe certain stringent rules for a period which varied from two to four years.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

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