Which Pa, having been in the Purser line of life, lies a-bed in a bow-window where he can see the ships sail up and down the river.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

‘In the water, of course!’ said the Sheep, sticking some of the needles into her hair, as her hands were full.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Though Laodicea cannot show the same intellectual activity as Hierapolis during the second century, yet in practical energy she is not wanting.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

'Why, Sir, that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argonauts, who were the first sailors.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which Marius did not understand: “A pupil.” Marius had fallen into a wasps’-nest of wits.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I can support this state no longer.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There was special anxiety on account of his low condition, as he was the only competent seaman that still had any influence, since Khitroff, by his hot and impetuous temper, had incurred the hatred of all.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The fundamental principle of that philosophy is the opinion concerning colours, sounds, tastes, smells, heat and cold; which it asserts to be nothing but impressions in the mind, derived from the operation of external objects, and without any resemblance to the qualities of the objects.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Most of them, even in their not too becoming costume, showed the signs of personal comeliness, and a few were really pretty.
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

"Just wait a bit, and I'll count," said the soldier, quite coolly.
— from Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

In regard to Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Copeland said that she was the Founder of the faith, but that she had never claimed, nor did she believe that Mrs. Lathrop had, that Mrs. Eddy had any power other than that which came from God and through faith in Him and His teachings.
— from Pulpit and Press by Mary Baker Eddy

Or, grant I could stoop to save myself by a hasty submission, am I not, even in that case, utterly ruined?
— from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott

Even Edith's unskilled eyes could see that she had made great proficiency.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

I can see the secret agent's face yet—as he sat bursting with facts repressed by Imperial order—a solemn, strong, relentless man, sad and savage with the knowledge he could not use.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

The Indian town had vanished, and not a trace remained of the savage population which Cartier saw there seventy years before.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

AN AMERICAN CREED Straight thinking, Straight talking, Straight doing, And a firm belief in the might of right.
— from With the Colors Songs of the American Service by Everard Jack Appleton

Charles stipulated to supply the Duke of Bourbon with a powerful army, in order to conquer Provence and Dauphiny: Henry agreed to pay him a hundred thousand crowns for the first month; after which he might either choose to continue the same monthly payments, or invade Picardy with a powerful army.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume