Miss Vincy was alone, and blushed so deeply when Lydgate came in that he felt a corresponding embarrassment, and instead of any playfulness, he began at once to speak of his reason for calling, and to beg her, almost formally, to deliver the message to her father.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left childless.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

At this time they had dealings with Lucien Chardon de Rubempre.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Hence I will excite thir minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with designe To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such, They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

This air of indifference, which imposed upon the worthy Dodsley, was certainly nothing but a specimen of that dissimulation which Lord Chesterfield inculcated as one of the most essential lessons for the conduct of life.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I could do with less caressing and more rationality.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

She bewailed her lover’s death with loud cries and lamentations, uttered while she was placing the garlands upon the tomb, and offering the oblations and incense, which were customary in those days, as expressions of grief.
— from History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott

The capital of the whole country in early days was Lugdunum Consoranorum, now S. Lizier, and one of the nine cities of Novempopulania.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It was about the size of a donkey, with large curved horns.
— from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Of course she would," he said decidedly - and to Hal: "What time do we leave Charing Cross?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
— from Winding Paths by Gertrude Page

As the rays of the sun in the west fell upon the buildings, they were reflected back to the opposite side of the street, again and again reflected, and the eye of Cobb beheld the parallel lines of Pennsylvania Avenue adorned with millions of sparkling, dancing lights, meeting at the farther end in one great diamond whose lustre could almost compare with the sun itself.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

I have been a cause of estrangement between you and your partner, and I have destroyed whatever little chance I might once have had of setting myself right in Mr. Keller's estimation.
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

In its place was revealed a small wooden door, which, loosely covered and concealed by the mortar, was used by the masons and workpeople as a means of exit and entrance when obliged to repair the immense edifice.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn