Without taking leave of his new friend, Pierre left the gate with unsteady steps and returning to his room lay down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Randalls party agreed to it immediately; and after a pretty long speech from Miss Bates, which few persons listened to, she also found it possible to accept dear Miss Woodhouse's most obliging invitation.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The long train of offerings followed: all the pupils, sweeping past with the gliding step foreigners practise, left their tributes as they went by.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

For proof listen to Peter: "Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves do know."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Picture those early navigators venturing forth in sailboats built from planks lashed together with palm–tree ropes, caulked with powdered resin, and coated with dogfish grease.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

So, not approving of what was going on, yet not caring to desert his friends, he withdrew, as the phrase runs, from public life; that is to say, was rarely in his seat; did not continue to Lord Melbourne the proxy that had been entrusted to Lord Grey; and made tory magistrates in his county though a whig lord lieutenant.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They led him away, and he soon grew calmer, feeling perhaps, like the others, a vague satisfaction that it was all over.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Then turning, without the least change of countenance, to Porthos, he said, looking him full in the face: “Friend Porthos, listen to this; first, not a syllable to either of our friends of what you have heard; it is unnecessary for them to know the service we are going to render them.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It was offered by Foulis, then Earl of Clanronald, in 1812, to the British Government, and it frightened people like the drunken Regent and the Duke of York and Lord Mulgrave into refusing it.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

He had hoped that upon their mutual jealousy he might establish despotic authority; but the treason of Maurice of Saxony had subverted his darling scheme at the moment of its apparent success, and in disgust he retired from public life to spend the remainder of his days in recruiting his health and cursing the heretics.
— from Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert Anderson Wilson

The first prize last time was very deservedly won by the daughter of the Methodist Minister.)
— from Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden

In 1801 the first public line, the Surrey Iron Railway, was chartered, but it was not until 1825 that the success of the Stockton and Darlington Railway proved that the iron way could be made as useful to the general shipping public as to the colliery owner.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

They were cheap guns,—pipe fiends, petty larceny thieves and shop-lifters—but they helped to make our path smoother.
— from The Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood