Next day he hired in Graff's place Fritz Weilinger, the salesman of his most injurious rival, the East Side Homes and Development Company, and thus at once annoyed his competitor and acquired an excellent man.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Such words he was uttering; but the sword driven hard home is gone
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Now, he was, as we have said, a very amiable man, and an affectionate father; but he was one of those people who, according to circumstances, may be either praised for their firmness or blamed for their obstinacy; if he had once taken an idea into his head, he was very fond of retaining it, from the difficulty he had in getting it there.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

In this respect we have a different heaven here in Germany than the people in France or Italy.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

"How dark her hair is growing," she said.
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale

If Dr. Medicine told me what an unpromising lout the present magnificent Honorable Legal was when he first arrived, and how much difficulty he had in getting him introduced into respectable society, I was certain to meet Honorable Legal soon after, and hear him recite a similar experience with reference to Dr. Medicine.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

The elder Rapp is a large man of seventy years old, whose powers age seems not to have diminished; his hair is gray, but his blue eyes overshadowed by strong brows, are full of life and fire; his voice is strong, and his enunciation full, and he knows how to give a peculiar effect to his words by appropriate gesticulation.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

But as the King had set his heart on having these two things done, he had it given out in all the churches of his kingdom far and wide, that he who could fell the big oak in the King's courtyard, and dig him a well that would hold water the whole year round, should have the Princess and half the kingdom.
— from East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

‘I give you my word I will let you hear every day how his illness goes on, and if there should be immediate danger——’ ‘Swear you will send for me at once whenever it may be, day or night, write a note straight to me—I care for nothing now.
— from On the Eve: A Novel by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev