She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut book from the high desk.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Pray, Sir, be as Eloquent as you can upon this Subject, and do Human Life so much Good, as to argue powerfully, that it is not every one that can swallow who is fit to drink a Glass of Wine.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Or by the other guards appointed to appease riots and defend the law?
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful precautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly commensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequal contest that he had so rashly courted.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

“All at once I see you pass through the barrier with a groom, a tilbury, and fine new clothes.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I have mentioned Johnson's general aversion to a pun.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Sa katapúsan nabalingan ra gayud ang tulisan, At last the robbers were caught in the dragnet.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[ 203 ] The Governor and the Archbishop.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

[799] Why is it that Porphyry, while he lauds the piety of the Hebrews in worshipping a God great and true, and terrible to the gods themselves, follows the oracles of these gods in accusing the Christians of extreme folly because they say that this world shall perish?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

They were seen by the rovers, several of whom, uttering expressions of rage, attempted to get at them, and paid the penalty of their daring with their lives, being cut down by the British seamen the moment they reached the deck.
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston

There they arrested Monsieur Le Prun, who was just emerging from the gate as they arrived; as also Blassemare, whom they surprised in his room.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

Of its cry he says that it is as great a torment as an agonizing recollection, a cold shrill laugh from the midst of a kettle of ice; the rattling of sea-pebbles in an old sheep-skin, on which account many call the owl the hag of the Rhugylgroen.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

There was but one ray of hope in this sudden pall of gloom, and that Almer grasped eagerly.
— from Inside the Lines by Robert Welles Ritchie

At the store the flour was weighed out, and he was given a ticket at $12 per hundred.
— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

He was gaining a tremendous ascendency over her father, she knew.
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I must go and tell Anne this evening.
— from Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem

There was a break in the rains, and on the Ridge the sunshine fell in floods upon the fresh green grass, and the air, bright and cool, set men's minds toward making the best of Nature's kindness; for she had been kind, indeed, to the faithful little colony, and few even of the seniors could remember a season so favorable in every way.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel