Aramis cast a glance upon d’Artagnan to see what effect all this produced, and found his friend gaping enough to split his jaws.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

It was divided, by function, into two parts: the first contained the cells for generating electricity, the second that mechanism transmitting movement to the propeller.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Upon the whole she felt gratified, even though such a limited and evanescent triumph should involve her daughter's reputation; it might end in marriage yet, and in the warmth of her responsiveness to their admiration she invited her visitors to stay to tea.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"Mrs d'Urberville?" "Yes." Tess, then, passed as a married woman, and he felt glad, even though she had not adopted his name.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The next room, which K. entered more slowly than he had intended, looked at first glance exactly the same as it had the previous evening.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Hence the whole mass of the human race is condemned; for he who at first gave entrance to sin has been punished with all his posterity who were in him as in a root, so that no one is exempt from this just and due punishment, unless delivered by mercy and undeserved grace; and the human race is so apportioned that in some is displayed the efficacy of merciful grace, in the rest the efficacy of just retribution.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And what a foolish Ghost even to suggest such a duty!
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

English farmers generally employ the spike harrow; but Yankee agriculturists make great use of the spring-tooth form, which may best be described as an arrangement of very strong springs much resembling in outline the springs of house bells.
— from The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments by Archibald Williams

In vain our flatt'ring hopes our steps beguile, The flying good eludes the searcher's toil: In vain we seek the city or the cell, Alone with Virtue knows the Pow'r to dwell.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

Therefore, when the federal government emancipated the slaves it ought to have given the masters just compensation.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

Every day she was reminded of it, for in the dining-room was the portrait of her father, painted, life-size, by a Royal Academician, and showing a gentleman aged about thirty-five years, with a handsome oval face, grey eyes, thin straight nose, and hair and well-trimmed moustache and Vandyke beard of a deep golden brown, the moustache not altogether hiding the pleasant, somewhat voluptuous mouth.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

She heard the hoarse muttering of the men, and, a worse poison for good ears, the shrill venom of the women.
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett

Teach therefore your children to know their wretched state and condition; tell them of hell-fire and their sins, of damnation, and salvation; the way to escape the one, and to enjoy the other, if you know it yourselves, and this will make tears run down your sweet babes' eyes, and hearty groans flow from their hearts; and then also you may tell them to whom they should pray, and through whom they should pray: you may tell them also of God's promises, and his former grace extended to sinners, according to the word.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Although this be a discouraging feature in our operations here, it should only be a stimulus to the Church to send more laborers and put forth greater efforts to stem the tide of destruction which the Christian world is pouring in upon the heathen.
— from Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by John Gerardus Fagg

That novelty takes on a razor-edge when you have fairly good evidence that some one who has no business there has already preceded you into that house.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

Cushing has, I believe, furnished good evidence that some of the ancestors of the Zuñi population came from the south and southwest; and that some of these came from pueblos now in ruins on the Little Colorado is indicated by the great similarity in the antiquities of ancient Zuñi and the Colorado Chiquito ruins.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes