Chapter II The Preaching About a quarter to seven there was an unusual appearance of excitement in the village of Hayslope, and through the whole length of its little street, from the Donnithorne Arms to the churchyard gate, the inhabitants had evidently been drawn out of their houses by something more than the pleasure of lounging in the evening sunshine.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

And so he bids him and his companions depart, just as any other father might drive out of the house a riotous son and his undesirable associates.
— from The Republic by Plato

‘Upon my word,’ rejoined Traddles, greatly delighted, ‘if you had seen them running away, and running back again, after you had knocked, to pick up the combs they had dropped out of their hair, and going on in the maddest manner, you wouldn’t have said so.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But meanwhile the unhappy director of our theatre had passed from a state of chronic to one of acute bankruptcy.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

About this time it was that the people of Damascus, out of their hatred to Ptolemy, the son of Menhens, invited Aretas [to take the government], and made him king of Celesyria.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The servant, Rose, remained alone in the large kitchen, where the fire was dying out on the hearth beneath the large boiler of hot water.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

By the 11th of October shells were dropping incessantly from a distance of only three hundred yards, and before this powerful fire the earthworks crumbled.
— from Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence by George McKinnon Wrong

Eight days out of ten he remained in the temple entrusted to his charge; two he devoted to his family, who lived on the other bank of the Nile; but he let no one, not even those nearest to him, know what portion of the ten days he gave up to recreation.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

Sometimes again he would not paint a single stroke for several days, but just stand before the picture during one or two hours, contemplating his work, and considering and examining the different figures.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

No! there was no danger once outside the house.
— from Clash of Arms: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

In fact it extends to the Bitter Root Mountains, a distance of over two hundred miles.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

When the coal has been dug out of these hills and these cities shall have gone the way of Sodom and Gomorrah, and your churches and Y. M. C. A. may have vanished because it did not pay to keep them going, this Russian Soul will endure; and the sooner we learn to understand it the better for us and for them and for our country. ”
— from Introducing the American Spirit by Edward Alfred Steiner

She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

There was a tradition, which had grown into a well-defined belief, that a Deliverer [Pg 84] would be sent them, that they would be delivered out of the hands of their enemies and that their oppressors would in turn be brought to grief.
— from The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine

Dam Nelly Bly (1423) by Megunticook (251) imported by C. S. Wainright, Reinbeck, N. Y.; 2d dam Beauty 3d (524) by Bloomfield (148); 3d dam Beauty, (523) by Exchange (197); 4th dam Old Fancy (709) by Taurus (320); 5th dam, one of the heifers presented by the Earl of Leicester, in 1817, with the bull Taurus (320) to Mr. Patterson, Md. 48 Independence, Calved July 16th, 1860; bred by and the property of C. W. Cushing .
— from Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons by Various