Then Senator Patterson began another question, and had gotten as far as “I want to know whether your views—” when out came this, as of a sailor-man clearing decks for action: “I do not like your questions a bit.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Its subject is a struggle of wit applied to chicanery; for among its dramatis personae, from the villainous Fox himself, his rascally servant Mosca, Voltore (the vulture), Corbaccio and Corvino (the big and the little raven), to Sir Politic Would-be and the rest, there is scarcely a virtuous character in the play.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

H2 anchor EPISODE 13 — HOLLAND AND GERMANY H2 anchor CHAPTER X Portrait of the Pretended Countess Piccolomini—Quarrel and Duel—Esther and Her Father, M. D’O.—Esther Still Taken with the Cabala—Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated— Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls—I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther—I Bate the Rascally St. Germain; His Flight— Manon Baletti Proves Faithless to Me; Her Letter Announcing Her Marriage: My Despair—Esther Spends a Day With Me— My Portrait and My Letters to Manon Get Into Esther’s Hands— I Pass a Day with Her—We Talk of Marrying Each Other The so-called Countess Piccolomini was a fine example of the adventuress.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Haste thou who, from afar, in doubt and fear, Dost watch, with straining eyes, the fated boy— The loved of heaven!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

By all accounts it was a most strange fruit, and incomparably delicious to the taste, but not to the smell.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The menu for an informal dinner would leave out the entrée, and possibly either the hors d'oeuvre or the soup.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

You felt as I do; Helen mustn’t meet him again.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

"Yes, sir," answered Christie meekly, and immediately afterward startled Hepsey by casting overshoes and umbrella upon the kitchen floor, and indignantly demanding: "Am I expected to be a boot-jack to that man?"
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Her head, for all its drooping eyes, was thrown a little back, in the old proud attitude.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Something in the softening influences which had been about her since that crisis of her young life made her feel more ruth at the recital of the deed than she had felt at its doing.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall

He noticed also that fortune, as if determined to help the brave, was already giving him aid.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Such an object was worth striving for; and I did strive.
— from The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat

Knowing my father as I do, I am convinced that he is not the cold, unfeeling man that people give him credit for.
— from Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"It'll be truly uplifting to see her—and hear her fiddle once more, if she's game for an indefinite dose of my society.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

As for America, I didn't see how it could possibly interest you.…"
— from The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna

So far as it does extend, however, kindness to animals treats them as we should wish to be treated by a person who had us in his power.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

It is a hardy plant; for although it droops under excessive drought, it is seldom destroyed by it.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

There were pictures of girls working in factories and in different places.
— from The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell