The probabilities are that she was a girl of the most usual sort, but greatly attached to Casanova who, even in his poverty, must have dazzled her as a being from another world.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He described him as a man of skill in all Christian modes of physical science, and likewise familiar with whatever the savage people could teach in respect to medicinal herbs and roots that grew in the forest.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

XX Bazarov leant forward from the tarantass , and Arkady, peering over his friend's shoulder, beheld, on the entrance steps of the manor-house, a tall, thin man with dishevelled hair and a narrow, aquiline nose.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

There is nothing but that damned dog howling away at about a hundred yards from the walls.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

On the very first day he arrived Andrey Yefimitch had to look out for lodgings.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

How is it that the Assembly has not yet been convened?" M. Dupin halted, and answered, with a shrug which was habitual with him,— "There is nothing to be done.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

However, worldly policy and interest and the multitude prevailing, the court gave sentence, as usual, on the stronger side, and poor Sabbeus and Theodosius, the Samaritan disputants, were martyred, and this, so far as appears, without any direct hearing at all, which is like the usual practice of such political courts about matters of religion.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It was for herself that he loved Tess; her soul, her heart, her substance—not for her skill in the dairy, her aptness as his scholar, and certainly not for her simple formal faith-professions.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Mr. Knightley and Harriet had arrived during her absence, and were sitting with her father.—Mr.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Day after day he ascended an eminence, and, with his glass, anxiously scanned the horizon, to detect signs of the approach of the foe.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Here the Venosta, who had been listening with great attention to Louvier’s commendation of this investment, drew him aside, and whispered in his ear: “I suppose, M. Louvier, that one can’t put a little money-a very little money—poco-poco pocolino, into your street.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Only a few years passed when the very people he had so benefited by his bounty tore down his "Arms" and portraits, and showed the most violent marks of disrespect to the memory of him who had been their best friend, but it was unreasonable violence that moved the mob who called themselves patriots.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

He has great courage, and went steadily on without disturbing himself about anything.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

Beulah was watching the snowy wall of foam, piled on either side of the prow of a schooner, and thinking how very beautiful it was, when the buggy stopped suddenly, and Dr. Hartwell addressed a gentleman on horseback: "Percy, you may expect me; I am coming as I promised."
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Aladdin, with the agility of a small monkey, soon mounted to the upper side of the overturned vehicle, and, opening the door, had assisted a beautifully arrayed young woman, possibly a year or two [Pg 203] younger than himself, from within, and after her, fuming and condemning his luck and the world in general, a gray-haired and apparently irascible old gentleman.
— from Jack and the Check Book by John Kendrick Bangs

I can see ’em now, not able to stand upright with the pressing of the mob, and dragging him along amongst ’em; I can see the people jumping up, one behind another, and snarling with their teeth and making at him like wild beasts; I can see the blood upon his hair and beard, and hear the dreadful cries with which the women worked themselves into the centre of the crowd at the street corner, and swore they’d tear his heart out!”
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

He saw that to yield would destroy his authority, and he opposed concession, but he stood alone, the officers knew their position was untenable, and the council was unanimous against him.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams

His then pupil Johann Oldecop describes him as “a man of sense,” but “proud by nature.”
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

But, at the very moment when he feared the worst, he was amazed to behold the barbarians come to a dead halt, and, at the waving of Jacinto's hand, part from before him with countenances of reverence and fear.
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird