Ralph gave a mild ambiguous laugh.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

For even the very words of so great a Master and Lord are to be intently considered.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The diaries of the Great African Missionary are laid under contribution and the result is not only a fascinating story of adventure and travel, but an autobiographical record of immense value.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

XIV But full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, 120 But forth unto the darksome hole he went, And looked in: his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade, By which he saw the ugly monster ° plaine, Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide, 125
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The lady listens meekly as though conscious of guilt, answers meekly, and looks at the floor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As though they understood one another, the rain and the mat began prattling of something rapidly, gaily and most annoyingly like two magpies.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Tamb’ Itam got a mat and lay down a little way off; but he could not sleep, though he knew he had to go on an important journey before the night was out.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

thou art of no use to us; go and make a living for thyself."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Gatai ang mangkù arun lamían ang sabaw, Cook the mackerel with coconut juice so we’ll have a delicious sauce.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

All these successive assertions are utterly false and untenable, while the plain truth, a truth lying at the very door, has all the while escaped him,—that which was incidentally stated in the preceding chapter,—namely, that the difference between great and mean art lies, not in definable methods of handling, or styles of representation, or choices of subjects, but wholly in the nobleness of the end to 22 which the effort of the painter is addressed.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

"If the Queen be willing to take the sovereignty," he cried out at his own dinner-table to a large company, "and is ready to proceed roundly in this action, I will serve her to the last drop of my blood; but if she embrace it in no other sort than hitherto she hath done, and if Leicester is to return, then am I as good a man as Leicester, and will never be commanded by him.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He had spent three months in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

As she greeted Richard she blushed like a girl, and made a little old-fashioned curtsey.
— from A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett

she exclaimed in the studiously clear notes she had not been able to free from a slight metallic quality; "that's not so bad a sight to go and meet a little brother, I believe?"
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

"Can't you see there's no room for two?" "Well," said Hayes at last, "you can send up him; he's pretty nigh done for, and he've got a missus and little 'uns.
— from The Water-Finders by Judith Vandeleur

And whilst some cultivated a proud indifference, a Stoical apathy, and others sank down to Epicurean ease and pleasure, there was a noble few who longed and hoped with increasing ardor for a living 472 Redeemer, a personal Mediator, who should "stand between God and man and lay his hand on both."
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

"But it is not I who am asking you to go and massacre a lot of pheasants," said Macleod; and he spoke rather absently, for he was thinking of the probable mood in which he would go down to Weatherill.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

But she nevertheless regarded with a certain awe the servant of so great a man, and "little Tommy Cliffe" took a new importance in her eyes.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik