Although I had sent Mr. Jaggers a brief account of the accident as soon as I had arrived in town, yet I had to give him all the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and less strictly regulated by the rules of evidence, than it had been before.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The captain had come to the town with his sister utterly destitute, and had, as Liputin said, at first actually gone from house to house begging.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

—¿Qué grado de adelanto han alcanzado los sistemas de riego en la América latina?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Six of these are referred to in the records of the period as possessing especial merit, including a zodiacal armillary sphere six feet in diameter, an equinoctial armillary sphere six feet in diameter, a horizon azimuth likewise six feet in diameter, a quadrant having a radius of six feet, a sextant with a radius of eight feet, and a celestial globe having a diameter of six feet.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

By midday my husband and I were on our way to London, but not before he had given our benefactor full warning of this danger, and had also left such information for the police as would safeguard his life for the future.
— from The Adventure of the Red Circle by Arthur Conan Doyle

We flatter ourselves there will be great difficulties of precedence when we go into dinner, and have at last settled that the two Chancellors go in hand in hand like the Kings of Brentford, and that we must divide the inferior clergy amongst us—take two apiece.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

Wait but a space—while I speak to the crowd and dismiss them—and then I will give you a cordial and refreshment; after that you must lie down and have a long sleep.”
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

For sin and death launched their last dart at Him, and, like some venomous insect that can sting once and then must die, they left their sting in His wounded heart, and have none for them that put their trust in Him.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

One day, when I was dancing along, humming a little song I used to sing with Mary, I met the old man, and he laid his hand upon my head.
— from The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories by Lydia Maria Child

“My mother is not very well to-day,” she continued, turning to the young man, and almost for the first time directly addressing him, “at least, she has been rather upset by my brother’s going away, but I have no doubt she will come down, if you would like to see her.”
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth