"Well, I had a spite at Providence for a good spell, and for weeks I wouldn't even look at the baby.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Conseil, whom I hadn't alerted, mistook it at first for a gigantic sea snake and was gearing up to classify it in his best manner.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Answer: HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN THE FIELD, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, September 26, 1864.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Seeing her every day, I had dispersed my amorous fancies, and friendship and gratitude seemed to have vanquished all other feelings, for I was obliged to confess that this charming girl had lavished on me the most tender and assiduous care.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At least," said poor Susan, forcing a grim smile in a desperate effort to recover lost standing, "at least flying is a clean job.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

For a good sketch of the story of Meleager, too long to be inserted here, see Grote, vol.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But I had my own experience for a guide since it had shown me the man himself standing upon the summit of the Black Tor.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

At last one stepped forth; a great strong man who was famous for his warlike deeds, and said, "You will not drive away the monster by merely looking at him; we must be in earnest here, but I see that you have all tuned into women, and not one of you dares to encounter the animal."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

It is usually hard to find widths that are long and straight enough to bend so as to form a good shaped stretcher.
— from Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

are always the largest, airiest, and openest, of the whole of the windows of the house, excepting in the rare cases where there is a top story consisting of a large gallery, as frequently at Genoa, serving for promenade and look out—in fact a species of Belvedere.
— from An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir

And I saw this thing happen on a sand bank in the Arno, where the sand was hollowed out to a greater depth than the stature of a man; and with it the gravel was whirled round and flung about for a great space; it appeared in the air in the form of a great bell-tower; and the top spread like the branches of a pine tree, and then it bent at the contact of the direct wind, which passed over from the mountains.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

If I could feel that the school was well able to get on without me, I would be off to the islands for a good spell.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

WHO HAS EVER SHOWN DEEP SOLICITUDE FOR AND GRACIOUS SYMPATHY WITH THE EUROPEAN PRISONERS IN THE SUDAN
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

Through all the disguise of fiction a grave scientific doctrine may be detected lying beneath some of the delineations of character.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Pg 6] life may be; it may be a rough and rugged one; it may not be a very happy one; we shall be unable to smooth his path then; so let us make his childhood and boyhood as happy as possible, that he may always look back upon it as the freshest and greenest spot in his life, and carry the recollection of our love in his heart all his days."
— from Leslie Ross; or, Fond of a Lark by Charles Bruce