He returned to the subject so frequently, and with such emphasis, that I thought, if in this he followed nothing but the sentiments of his heart, he would be less struck with the maxim, and that he made of it an art useful to his views by procuring the means of accomplishing them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Really—" said Mrs. Fisher; and with such emphasis this time that Lady Caroline turned to her.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

And, once launched upon the subject, Arkady descanted so fully, and with such enthusiasm, that Madame Odintsov turned to observe his friend more closely.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Their clothes were neat, in many instances fine, and wherever she encountered the eye of one it was only to recognise in it a keen analysis of her own position—her individual shortcomings of dress and that shadow of manner which she thought must hang about her and make clear to all who and what she was.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The Apricots have done fairly, and were so early that we gathered three or four in the last days of July—a full month before their usual time.
— from A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition by Henry Arthur Bright

Beethoven gave the cue to what could be accomplished with these in the scherzo of the Fifth Symphony and also in the octave thumps in the scherzo of the Ninth Symphony, while for a weirdly sombre effect there is nothing equal to the faint roll of the tympani at the beginning and end of the Funeral March in “Götterdämmerung.”
— from How to Appreciate Music by Gustav Kobbé

But in the far Alaskan wilds she eluded the fiends and drove swiftly over the frozen wastes with their only dog team.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

" In one case, a floating island, which had attached itself to the shore, continued to float about for a long time after it was torn off by a flood, and was solid enough to keep a pond of fresh water upon it sweet, though the water in which it was swimming had become brackish from the irruption of the sea.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

"Sir, he could not find any word strong enough to describe our folly.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The flood reached almost to the second floor and was strong enough to cut away about half
— from The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

Fanny answered quickly, and for a while she endeavored to take more interest in our conversation, but this soon subsided.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, February 1850 by Various

The Chaldæans and the Syrians, instigated perhaps by their pastors, have been so eager to obliterate the memory of their former heterodoxy that they have effaced with an unsparing hand all, or nearly all, Syriac inscriptions older than the date of their regeneration, and in Môṣul it is rare to find any written stone earlier than the end of the seventeenth century.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

On came the figure, and, without swerving either to the right or left, it glided right up to and through her; and, as she involuntarily turned round, she saw it disappear through a half-open staircase window, at least twenty feet above the ground outside.
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell