He put it back again, stuck his pipe in a button-hole of his coat, spread a hand on each knee, and after turning an angry eye on the fire for a few silent moments, looked round at us and said what follows.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The day I discovered it, Darryl and I immediately exchanged keys and spent months cackling and rubbing our hands as we exchanged our military-grade secret messages about where to meet after school and whether Van would ever notice him.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Maggie found the Latin Grammar quite soothing after her mathematical mortification; for she delighted in new words, and quickly found that there was an English Key at the end, which would make her very wise about Latin, at slight expense.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

It seems almost incredible at first, but it is the fact, nevertheless, that no one ever keeps any of the Kula: valuables for any length of time.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Accordingly, if any one kills a cobra, he is sure to contract leprosy, which is the peculiar punishment of those who have either killed a cobra, or have led to the destruction of its eggs by digging in or ploughing up soil which it haunts, or setting on fire jungle or grass in the midst of which it is known to live and breed.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

His sight was extraordinarily keen, as Yegorushka learnt afterwards.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

They either kill a pig or fowl, and offer you wine, which is not drunk out of any sort of vessel, but sucked, through a bamboo cane, from a large jar; it is made from rice, fermented, but rarely distilled.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

The country was almost destitute of timber, except that upon the tops of the parallel lines of red sandhills, which mostly ran in a north-east and south-west direction, a few stunted specimens of the eucalypt, known as blood-wood or red gum existed.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

The carving about the portals was of a very elaborate kind, and formed an interesting specimen of native decorative art.
— from The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

Die am Schluss beigefügten mythologischen, historischen und geographischen Erläuterungen können auch denen willkommen sein, welche sich eingehender mit dem Gedicht beschäftigen wollen.’
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

The hours Antonia spent in his lordship's company were the happiest she had ever known, and the days when he did not come had a grey dulness that was a new sensation.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Their difficulties would often enough kill a man with farming knowledge; but, bless you!
— from A Boy of the Dominion: A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

And then Dering, good chap as he was, had, everybody knew, a touch of the tar-brush himself.
— from The Hosts of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Lieutenant Halleck had bought one of each kind, and so had Warner.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

These are usually in pairs—male and female—as for example Kakring and Kalapiat.
— from Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

And he's the only man I ever knew as had to do with horses that wouldn't tell you a lie.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume II by Frances Eleanor Trollope

[Footnote 2: Within the knowledge of reason, as well as in experiential knowledge, a further distinction is made between primary truths (which need no proof) and derived truths.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg