I am out of your way now, Spoon River, Choose your own good and call it good.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even lend an ear!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"But does not purification consist in this, as was said in a former part of our discourse, in separating as much as possible the soul from the body, and in accustoming it to gather and collect itself by itself on all sides apart from the body, and to dwell, so far as it can, both now and hereafter, alone by itself, delivered, as it were, from the shackles of the body?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Then, taking two days of calm under the line, we painted her on the outside, giving her open ports in her streak, and finishing off the nice work upon the stern, where sat Neptune in his car, holding his trident, drawn by sea-horses; and re-touched the gilding and coloring of the cornucopia which ornamented her billet-head.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in the one as in the other.” Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Between these lines she kept the journal of her captivity: it would have made the fortune of a romance-writer in those days but to have got a copy of it, and to have published it under the title of the ‘Lovely Prisoner, or the Savage Husband,’ or by some name equally taking and absurd.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Up, and being ready, went by agreement to Mr. Bland’s and there drank my morning draft in good chocollatte, and slabbering my band sent home for another, and so he and I by water to White Hall, and walked to St. James’s, where met Creed and Vernatty, and by and by Sir W. Rider, and so to Mr. Coventry’s chamber, and there upon my Lord Peterborough’s accounts, where I endeavoured to shew the folly and punish it as much as I could of Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any man of his degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

2 [A12; a12] be given a conditional grade.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Hank's voice suddenly broke, he collapsed on the ground, and Cathcart somehow or other persuaded him at last to go into the tent and lie quiet.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

With this aim in view, it denies any moral value to virtue such as philosophers understood it—as a victory of the reason over the passions—generally condemns every kind of goodness, and calls upon the passions to manifest themselves in their full power and glory: as love of God, fear of God, fanatic belief in God, blind hope in God.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I gazed about curiously.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

An' ye can let up on the talk, too, whenever ye like," this in reference to the language which mingled with Markey's contortions, "or maybe ye'll get a crack or two anyway.
— from Daisy Herself by Will E. Ingersoll

What’s the use of being a chump!” said Tom aloud, when he got a chance to free his mouth of salt water.
— from Tom Fairfield at Sea; or, The Wreck of the Silver Star by Allen Chapman

I’m too great a coward to shoot myself.”
— from Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery by George Manville Fenn

In this state of things, the new administration came in, and the views of the president coinciding with those of the state of Georgia, a change was made in her mode of procedure.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Since in the primitive church organization and government were determined by the divine gifts and callings possessed by individuals, it is evident that we have in this something totally different from that later conception of church government as a mere human arrangement.
— from The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

Here and there a few rocks lifted their heads; you might have thought them gigantic animals couchant on the dunes.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Its p. 396 oranges are, however, by no means good, and cannot compete with those of Andalusia.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

If you meet a peasant on the road he says, “God greet you!” if you give a child a couple of kreuzers he folds his hands and says, “God reward you!”
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke

Even a tin-horn gambler, a crooked cheat, would give me more show for my money than you have, you bowlegged coyotes!
— from The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford