Then, as we flew along, the driver leaned forward, and on each side the passengers, craning over the edge of the coach, peered eagerly into the darkness.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This evening Savill the Paynter came and did varnish over my wife’s picture and mine, and I paid him for my little picture L3, and so am clear with him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The division between Lady Audley and her step-daughter had not become any narrower in the two months which had elapsed since the pleasant Christmas holiday time had been kept at Audley Court.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

For in an exact sense the present crisis of western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

‘Why you see,’ rejoined the little man, ‘we’re putting up for to-night at the public-house yonder, and it wouldn’t do to let ‘em see the present company undergoing repair.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The captains showed plainly the concern they felt, the regent's lady was downcast, and the pilgrims did not at all enjoy seeing their property confiscated.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And, indeed, when even those murderers who everywhere else showed themselves pitiless came to these spots where that was forbidden which the licence of war permitted in every other place, their furious rage for slaughter was bridled, and their eagerness to take prisoners was quenched.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nothing ever seemed to put Captain Jim out or depress him in any way.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

SYN: Definite, exact, nice, pointed, accurate, correct, particular, formal, explicit, scrupulous, terse, punctilious, ceremonious, formal.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

On est souvent trompé par ceux que l'on se propose de berner.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

"That is true enough," said the Perpetual Curate; "but then we have not made up our minds that we must marry immediately—" "Frank," said aunt Dora, with solemnity, breaking into his speech, "there is just one thing; and I can't hold my tongue, though it may be very foolish, and they will all say it is my fault."
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Prejudices and partiality have the greatest share in their disputes, and every society their proper champion to assert the pre-eminence and bring home the trophy to their own country.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

It was very obvious that, ever since the present constitution had been given to Lower Canada, the House of Assembly had been gradually obtaining an increase of power, whilst the Legislative Council remained in statu quo .
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

He hunted with the Quorn that winter, and during the following season he was persistently but unobtrusively at her elbow; so that Pamela came, at all events, to count upon him as a most reliable friend.
— from The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

[199] With ... enforce ] Swifter than powder can in spleen enforce Becket conj. spleen ] speed Pope.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Nearly fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the previous conquest of Corea by the famous empress Jingu.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese by Charles Morris

View of Etna, showing the parasitic cones upon its flanks 125 126.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs