They continued their rebukes and arguments, (especially the uncle,) in so harsh and unfeeling a manner, that it made me tremble to hear them.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

One bright summer's morning Silas had been more engrossed than usual in "setting up" a new piece of work, an occasion on which his scissors were in requisition.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

But another consideration was our budget; the whole result of my desperate efforts amounted to not quite one hundred ducats, which were to cover not only the journey to Paris, but our expenses there until I should have earned something.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And so—on the pretext that some lesson, the hour of which had been altered, now came at such an awkward time that it had already more than once prevented me, and would continue to prevent me, from seeing my uncle—one day, not one of the days which he set apart for our visits, I took advantage of the fact that my parents had had luncheon earlier than usual; I slipped out and, instead of going to read the playbills on their column, for which purpose I was allowed to go out unaccompanied, I ran all the way to his house.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The groundwork of the arrangement was the family dresser, which, with its shining handles, and finger-marks, and domestic evidences thick upon it, stood importantly in front, over the tails of the shaft-horses, in its erect and natural position, like some Ark of the Covenant that they were bound to carry reverently.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Some (but by no means all) of them even turned up intoxicated, seeming, however, to detect in this a peculiar, only recently discovered, merit.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hence a thought in its naked simplicity, even though unuttered, is sometimes admirable by the sheer force of its sublimity; for instance, the silence of Ajax in the eleventh Odyssey 11 is great, and grander than anything he could have said.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

No Jewish writer has ever told us, in systematic fashion, just what is the Jews' idea of non-Jews, how they regard the Gentiles in their private minds.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

It is for this reason that Dent's watches, Mappin's cutlery, Clarke's coals, Smith's gin, &c. would not be alone sufficient as trade-mark designations; because there are two persons or two firms entitled to use it, something additional would be needed.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 710 August 4, 1877 by Various

We find ourselves very puzzled in approaching this truly great and national question though we have tried very ernestly to understand it, so as to show how wisely and wonderfully our dear teacher guides the youthful mind, it being her wish that our composition class shall long be remembered in Riverboro Centre.
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

It seemed as if he had some great secret that he wanted to entrust to us: “I simply must ask you a question.
— from Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl May

Our native escort tell us, in subdued tones of awe, how Marut and Harut, the fallen angels, are suspended by their heels in the centre awaiting the Day of Judgment.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

No European foot had ever trod upon its sand, nor had the eyes of a white man ever scanned its vast expanse of water."
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

One of the leading prophets and the leading psalmists has each told us in scorching words how he felt before he created.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

But what is more important is the fact that the Zeppelin is so large that it furnishes an excellent target, unless it sails considerably higher than is comparatively safe for an airplane.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

"He was the only one who thought of putting the elder to use," I said.
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman

He then spoke a few words, in a quiet everyday tone, upon Italian scenery.
— from Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol. 1 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James