THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME —Wait a moment, professor MacHugh said, raising two quiet claws.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"I'm going to walk right into her house.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

47.—Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

But mother gets tired walking round,” she answered.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

Then, say Spencer and Gillen, " they were regarded as of especial value because of their association with a totem " ( ibid. , p. 276).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

[ 2 ] The marginal note in the Revised Version gives the word "recline" as the real equivalent of the { 225} original Greek term which is rendered "sit" in the text.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

May 15th, 1830 I rode with Lord Haddington to the Villa Mellini last evening on a confounded high-going old hunter of Lord Lynedoch’s, which he gave to William Russell.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville

At the foot of the slippery waterstairs, green with slime, McKay, grasping the worn rail, lifted his head and looked up into the faces of the waiting crowd.
— from In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

His voice assumed those rolling, grandiloquent tones which rang so effectively in St. Gregory’s Church.
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

If they found a proper girl they would return; if not, they would not come back.
— from Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

Their muddled ardour for great things was related to his own new view of the universe: the people who felt, however dimly, the wonder and weight of life must ever after be nearer to him than those to whom it was estimated solely by one’s balance at the bank.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

In February Paul Rée, passing through Genoa, stayed some days with his friend, who showed him his favourite walks and brought him to those rocky creeks "where in some six hundred years, some thousand years," he wrote gaily to Peter Gast, "they will raise a statue to the author of The Dawn" Then Paul Rée went on to Rome, where Fräulein von Meysenbug was waiting for him.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

In the dim light, and at long distance, it takes a quick and true eye to call from the ground that welcome resound which tells of game fallen.
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

The great Tasso was reduced to such a dilemma that he was obliged to borrow a crown for a week's subsistence.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

"I should like to stop a week at a first-class hotel before getting to work," remarked Peabody.
— from The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Alger, Horatio, Jr.