Just think how much effect that superstition can have.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

How even those slight circumstances had come to his knowledge, very slowly and in course of years, for the Bachelor was one of those whose goodness shuns the light, and who have more pleasure in discovering and extolling the good deeds of others, than in trumpeting their own, be they never so commendable.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The beautiful marchioness gave me then a look of such expression that she completed her conquest.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He little expected ever to see Cyrus Harding again; but wishing to leave some hope to Herbert: “Doubtless, doubtless,” said he; “our engineer is a man who would get out of a scrape to which any one else would yield.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The benevolence and generosity of this prince would have insured him success; but it was a delicate matter, and I feared some exposure from any arrogant hot-headed Rajput ere the scene could have been got up.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I caught cold, and got myself so stuck up with a complication of gums, slime and general corruption, that I wore out more than two thousand pair of boot-jacks getting my boots off that night, and even then some Christian hide peeled off with them.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Even the State Councillor himself was in love with her for a time.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

III The first night of his arrival he began it himself, and, under pretext of examining the surrounding country, he went along the high road.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

After the history of Julius C. Holmes had been thoroughly exposed, the Senate confirmed Holmes' nomination 75 to 21, with 4 Senators taking no stand.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Evidently hysterical from the shock he had received, he told my father, amid his sobs, that half of Newcastle and Gateshead had been blown down by a frightful explosion in one of the Gateshead bonded warehouses; that the dead and dying were lying about in hundreds, and that, to crown everything, Tuthill Stairs Chapel had been destroyed.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

The dancing was excellent; the singing could hardly have been better; while the pipe music was of itself well worth going a much longer distance to hear than that which separates Nether Lochaber from the City Hall of Glasgow.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

The quiet General did not so much as turn aside to enter the smoking city he had besieged for so long.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Still, much may be done with the country house, even the small country house, and after all we move quickly nowadays, and soon it may be possible to obtain gas and electric current everywhere.
— from The Labour-saving House by Peel, C. S., Mrs.

But when he saw the welcome in those big shining eyes, the happy smile on those young parted lips, he forgot even the subtle changes he had noted in her face, while still unobserved, and he flushed again, his heart beat rapidly.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"And at the first curse, note for note, My roses turned to rue: Or ever the second curse he smote
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 1 (of 5) Lyrics and old world idylls by Madison Julius Cawein

He looked from one to the other, but saw no face he recognized, yet they were not such a murderous set of scoundrels as he had expected to see, and although more than one of them, perhaps, would have taken the keenest pleasure in burying a knife-blade in him to revenge the hurt he had received, it appeared evident that some consideration held them back.
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner