This said "lecture pieuse" was, I soon found, mainly designed as a wholesome mortification of the Intellect, a useful humiliation of the Reason; and such a dose for Common Sense as she might digest at her leisure, and thrive on as she best could.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

To return to Davis , the next Day after he left Anamaboe , early in the Morning, the Man at the Mast-Head espied a Sail.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The old man became convinced that the "Yankees" had come at last, about whom he had been dreaming all his life; and some of the staff officers gave him a strong drink of whiskey, which set his tongue going.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But life like that was impossible, and so Konstantin tried to do what he had been trying to do all his life, and never could learn to do, though, as far as he could observe, many people knew so well how to do it, and without it there was no living at all.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The success of this manoeuvre tickled Mr Quilp beyond description, and he laughed and stamped upon the ground as at a most irresistible jest.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But dogs and horses likewise are able to do something in the way of support;— without reverence, what is there to distinguish the one support given from the other?' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

"For whether is it better To be prodded with Danish poles, Having hewn a chamber in a ditch, And hounded like a howling witch, Or smoked to death in holes?
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

From that time his social position steadily declined, and his life at school became a perpetual burden to him.
— from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens

Shah-in-Shah, or king of the four kings of Afghanistan, Georgia, Koordistan, and Arabistan, the ruler of Persia had now incorporated Arabistan in his own dominion, and had lost Afghanistan.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

" He went off at a gallop as the cars rolled in, leaving Savine smiling dryly as he looked after him.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

Like all gases, air is subject to the law that the density increases directly as the pressure, and thus the densest and heaviest layers are those nearest the sea-level, because the air near the earth's surface has to support the pressure of all the air above it.
— from The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton

Now Maud is different;" and he looked at the fair girl who still remained in the room, with eyes in which warm affection was plainly visible.
— from Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny by Vogel, Julius, Sir

Her eyes were dear, and her lips as she smiled; and her hand was beautiful as it waved him good-by.
— from The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill

A fan is the prime requisite, and it is not uncommon to see coolies almost devoid of clothing, dragging a heavy load and with the perspiration streaming from their naked bodies, energetically fanning themselves meanwhile.
— from Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

The little old woman sighed and glanced down at his legs and feet, which he did not know were different from those of other children, and then to his sweet, bright face.
— from The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters by Margaret Waters

Then as the sound of their footsteps died away, he looked at Cayse and said briefly— "Go on, capèn.
— from By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke