The enormous loss of life and the great suffering involved certainly demand that every boy scout do what he can to improve conditions in this respect.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Graham looked after her a little baffled, a little puzzled; his eye was on her a good deal during the rest of the evening, but she did not seem to notice him.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Douée d'un appétit de Gargantua, et brûlée sans doute d'une soif inextinguible, elle mangeait et
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

June came and the days grew so hot and lazy that they could not worry even about exams, but spent dreamy evenings on the court of Cottage, talking of long subjects until the sweep of country toward Stony Brook became a blue haze and the lilacs were white around tennis-courts, and words gave way to silent cigarettes....
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

He drove happily home, and to Mrs. Babbitt he was a William Washington Eathorne, but she did not notice it.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

There were as yet no tidings of Gurth and his charge, which should long since have been driven home from the forest and such was the insecurity of the period, as to render it probable that the delay might be explained by some depreciation of the outlaws, with whom the adjacent forest abounded, or by the violence of some neighbouring baron, whose consciousness of strength made him equally negligent of the laws of property.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

and how he bestowed on us every kind of excellence by sending down to us Aphrodite together with Athene, and thus laid down for our protection what is almost a law, that we should only unite to beget our kind?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It appeared that the evening before something dreadful and mysterious had happened.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

I may remark that such a “necklace” ( dokoh ) is often worn by Malay brides and bridegrooms, and may even be seen decorating the neck of an animal, such as the buffalo, when it is dressed up and sent as a present to some great man.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

[Pg 188] The young Indian mother did not know English, but she did not need speech to know what had happened.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

The mill pond, while not wide-spreading, had extended back some distance between the sloping banks, and had furnished swimming holes, fishing holes, and what was more to the point at present, a very fine head of water, which, as it struck the colonel more forcibly each time he saw it, offered an opportunity that the town could ill afford to [108] waste.
— from The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

Chapter VI 73 Return from Opera.—Esther Piqued at Alice's Conduct.—Search for Oswald and Alice.—Finding of Hat and Handkerchief.—Harassed by Reporters and Detectives.—Sleuths Employed by Sir Donald.—An Optimist Turned Nemesis.—Esther's Clouded Vision.—Sir Donald's Bluff.—The Conspirators Quit London.—Sir Donald and Esther Leave for Paris.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

"I guess I'll try 'em both," said Dorothy.
— from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But neither the coroner, nor the jury, nor the reporters, nor the few private citizens who had obtained entrance by special dispensation, and sat gaping about the room, attracted the attention of the prisoner.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

Miranda, as a dramatist, endeavoured to draw common characters from the life, after the manner of Plautus and Terence, of whom he avowed himself an imitator, 78 but he felt the necessity of elevating, by some degree of refinement, the vulgar phraseology which the characters he chose to pourtray actually employed in common life.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Janice heard her father ejaculate some exclamation, but she did not go to him first.
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long