With the same helplessness and the same terror, she looked at him for a while and, suddenly putting out her left hand, pressed her fingers faintly against his breast and slowly began to get up from the bed, moving further from him and keeping her eyes fixed even more immovably on him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We try all ways that can lead us to it; where reason is wanting, we therein employ experience, “Per varios usus artem experientia fecit, Exemplo monstrante viam,”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

My cure had only lasted three weeks, but I was not able to put the hand to any active employment for eighteen months afterwards.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

White Fang’s suspicious eyes followed every movement.
— from White Fang by Jack London

And this siege they endured for eighteen months, until they were destroyed by the famine, and by the darts which the enemy threw at them from the towers.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

poêle , f. , plat de cuisine, en fer, et muni d'une longue queue; pour frire, fricasser.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The six miles of Phranza do not exceed four English miles, (D'Anville, Mesures Itineraires, p. 61, 123, &c.)]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

That the unity of the caste, which comprised agriculturists, merchants, and handicraftsmen, and on the other hand the distinction between the Vaiçyas and the Çudras, was overlooked, is easily to be explained, for even Manu's law permitted the Çudras to be handicraftsmen, and the Brahmans and Kshatriyas to descend to the occupation of the other castes (p. 243), a permission which, in [Pg 418] the case of the Brahmans, did not escape the Greeks.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Based as our industrial system is on the principle of requiring the same unit of effort from every man, that is, the best he can do, you will see that the means by which we spur the workers to do their best must be a very essential part of our scheme.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

The Montenegrins are very moderate drinkers, but it was etiquette for every man of rank to drink with the guests.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

for the members of the Institute; to whom they had better give no salary than send them eighty francs each month, a wage that is less than that of certain clerks!
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The stream where they were encamped was several hundred yards in width, but now the run-off waters of the mighty snow-sheds were making the river each day more and more a torrent, full of danger even for experienced men.
— from The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough

Leaving Port Essington, the BEAGLE discovered a river at the head of Adam Bay, which was explored for eighty miles, and called the Adelaide.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

But her mother could see her truth, honour, purity—call it what you will—in every feature, every movement.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

"Fine eyes, frank, engaging manner!
— from Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice