In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

We both worried her so that she gave in; but she wished us to tell you nothing about it until the day.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This nobleman, who frequently visited Lady Bellaston, had more than once seen Sophia there, since her arrival in town, and had conceived a very great liking to her; which liking, as beauty never looks more amiable than in distress, Sophia had in this fright so encreased, that he might now, without any great impropriety, be said to be actually in love with her.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

V.—Of False Accounts of the Weights given in by some of the Journeymen, and of the Newmarket Tricks that were practised at the Stillyards.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Mrs. Grant, I believe, suspects him of a preference for Julia; I have never seen much symptom of it, but I wish it may be so.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The girl in brown slipped back to her place: it was immediately in front of Hill's, and Hill, forgetting her forthwith, took a notebook out of the drawer of his table, turned over its leaves hastily, drew a stumpy pencil from his pocket, and prepared to make a copious note of the coming demonstration.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“I did not speak about it; I said nothing about it; but gradually I became so sensitive that my soul resembled an open wound.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“I grant it, but still I pledge you my honor that I looked upon her as an extremely proper person to be about your daughter; you know, sir, that you as well as I have had—and have still—apprehensions as to Reilly's conduct and influence over her; and I did fear, and so did you, that the maid who then attended her, and to whom I was told she was attached with such unusual affection, might have availed herself of her position, and either attempted to seduce her from her faith, or connive at private meetings with Reilly.”
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Alison had met Eleanor Goodrich in Burton Street, and as the two made their way into the crowded vestibule they encountered Martha Preston, whose husband was Alison's cousin, in the act of flight.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

And when we have got it back somewhere near [44] what it was when God built it in Paradise, the earth will be far on toward resumption of Paradisaical conditions.
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

'Indeed, Sir, said Miss Gibson , I believe she would have been very thankful for your Advice, if you could at the same time have found out any Expedient to have put it in Execution; but if you will please to recollect, you may remember the Difficulty she had to escape once before, even when she was not suspected; and Lovelace now could have no manner of doubt, but that she would fly that House, if not prevented, as soon as her Strength would permit her to leave her Bed.
— from Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Sarah Fielding

The reformers themselves, young men for the most part, distinguished by great ideals but small ability, were too few to impose their individual will upon their opponents, yet sufficiently numerous to make their support necessary to the [Pg 4] success of either party.
— from The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

He did not go in, but sat down and tried to think.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead