But Mr. George is so occupied with the almanac over the fire-place (calculating the coming months by it perhaps) that he does not look round until she has gone away and the door is closed upon her.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

1 When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb,
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The blazing diamond is called Ulûñsû′tĭ , “Transparent,” and he who can win it may become the greatest wonder worker of the tribe, but it is worth a man’s life to attempt it, for whoever is seen by the Uktena is so dazed by the bright light that he runs toward the snake instead of trying to escape.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This Diomede is come un-to Criseyde, And shortly, lest that ye my tale breke, So wel he for him-selve spak and seyde, That alle hir sykes sore adoun he leyde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

If we have so far convinced ourselves a priori , by the most general consideration, by investigation of the primary and elemental features of human life, that in its whole plan it is capable of no true blessedness, but is in its very nature suffering in various forms, and throughout a state of misery, we might now awaken this conviction much more vividly within us if, proceeding more a posteriori , we were to turn to more definite instances, call up pictures to the fancy, and illustrate by examples the unspeakable misery which experience and history present, wherever one may look and in whatever direction one may seek.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

At the sound, two large Mastiffs appeared, dressed in Carabineers’ uniforms.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Though I am the son of a rich man, and might have wasted time at college, my industry was such that I took my M.A. degree in Calcutta University when quite young.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

How any one could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters I cannot understand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too!—Why should he have it more than anybody else?"
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

We walked somewhat higher than Russian Hill, including a journey through the caves in an artificial mountain such as the Chinese delight in, clear up to this temple.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

On the after-deck of the “Fram” (October, 1894) ( From a Photograph ) “There is scarcely any night, or rather I may safely say there is no night, on which no trace of aurora can be discerned as soon as the sky becomes clear, or even when there is simply a rift in the clouds large enough for it to be seen; and as a rule we have strong light phenomena dancing in ceaseless unrest over the firmament.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

he was chummed on “27 in the third,” whose door was to be distinguished by the likeness of a man being hung and smoking a pipe the while, done in chalk upon the panel.
— from In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble

"That may be so, O holy one," said the second man; "but what does it concern us?
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

Then I dropped in casually upon one of my friends.
— from Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

Then they had no difficulty in crawling up to within a few feet of the deer or beavers.”
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

He used to delight in calling up us youngsters, and would chat with us as familiarly as would any private gentleman.
— from Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

He experiences delight in conjuring up this contempt as if from the depths of hell, and thus inflicting the bitterest sufferings upon his soul: it is by this counterpoise that he bears up against physical suffering—he feels that such a counterpoise is now essential!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Here you are,” I said, taking from my table another sealed despatch bearing a large blue cross upon it, showing that it was a confidential document in cipher upon affairs of State.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

Was the Mount Hecla at the Surrey Zoological Gardens classed by Bateman in his work upon skin diseases—if so, what kind of eruption did it come under?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

For through seasonings and spices and the like, without which men could well live, no little loss of temporal wealth has come and daily is coming upon our lands.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther