Making an effort to control herself and not to scream, she said: “Let me tell you, then, that it’s all loathsome, loathsome, loathsome!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You have not even the courage, here and now, to throw me out.
— from Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch

At length when it was past the hour of noon, Martin sat down under a small bush that gave just shade enough to cover him and none to spare.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

[Illustration: ] At length when it was past the hour of noon, Martin sat down under a small bush that gave just shade enough to cover him and none to spare.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

When in Ekaterinburg the convict had asked Nekhludoff to get a permission for his wife to follow him.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When I explained the circumstances, however" (and named the fee, he might have added), "he agreed to come.
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley

But let us not give ear to the superstitious, gun-deck gossip about whither we may be gliding, for, as yet, not a soul on board of us knows—not even the Commodore himself; assuredly not the Chaplain; even our Professor's scientific surmisings are vain.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville