During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heart-felt sympathy.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to raise my spirits.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Stopping to pick out shells from the nummulitic limestone blocks or to try our glasses on some distant object, we come easily to the summit in a quarter of an hour.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

I examined his organs separately: I could find none presenting any marks of disease, or which could explain the general state of the patient.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

War was not declared as yet, and gentlemen of different opinions were courteous enough to one another.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Yes, somewhere not a great distance off we can expect to run across the canyon where the rock houses that are really caves, were cut out, hundreds of years ago by the ancient cliff dwellers,” Adrian went on to say.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man by Frank Fowler

This Eskimo mother is such a fine seamstress with her coarse needle and thread, that a drop of water cannot enter the skin boots after her work is done.
— from Our Little Eskimo Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade