His elder brother Narinobu was the heir, and his portion as a younger brother was only 200 koku .
— 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

Does anybody wonder that I got home at half past twelve instead of half past ten?
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Alas! I hadn’t skill to counteract the effect his account had produced: it was just what he intended.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"What made you do it?" asked Amy, who would as soon have thought of cutting off her head as her pretty hair.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Each has a hell provided for the wicked.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

In the quantity of his writings he was rivalled by Chrysippus, as Carneades asserts, who calls him a parasite of the books of Epicurus; for if ever this latter wrote anything, Chrysippus immediately set his heart on writing a book of equal size; and in this way he often wrote the same thing over again; putting down whatever came into his head; and he published it all without any corrections, by reason of his haste.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

"Take him away," he pleaded.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

He goes to the public school, I hear, and his progress is astonishing, they say; but it doesn't show as yet in his conversation, which is limited to "Yes" and "No."... TO MR.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Often in the cool of the evening Sir Michael Audley would stroll up and down smoking his cigar, with his dogs at his heels, and his pretty young wife dawdling by his side; but in about ten minutes the baronet and his companion would grow tired of the rustling limes and the still water, hidden under the spreading leaves of the water-lilies, and the long green vista with the broken well at the end, and would stroll back to the drawing-room, where my lady played dreamy melodies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn till her husband fell asleep in his easy-chair.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[Ursule Mirouet.] LIAUTARD (Abbe), in the first years of the nineteenth century was at the head of an institution of learning in Paris; had among his pupils Godefroid, Madame de la Chanterie's lodger in 1836 and future Brother of Consolation.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Everyone must find out for himself what are the holiest and most permanent things in life, and worship them sincerely and steadfastly, allowing no conventionality, no sense of social duty, to come in between him and his pure apprehension.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

I learnt that Monseigneur had received the extreme unction, that he was without consciousness and beyond hope, and that the King had sent word to Madame de Bourgogne that he was going to Marly, and that she was to meet him as he passed through the avenue between the two stables.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

He holds a high position in the body, and on many accounts is deservedly respected.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

In all times and countries the peasant has found that a certain length of furrow, often about 100 fathoms or 50 rods, was convenient for himself and his plough-cattle.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

Seated amongst these people he felt intuitively that a viewless barrier lay between him and his pursuers, that it was the very last place a man in search of a runaway would glance at.
— from The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

"When little Rudolph was so fond of his vegetable friends," said Mary, "and found them so good, so sweet, so much to his taste, I thought of an account I had somewhere read, written, I think, by the witty Sydney Smith, of a conversation a new missionary in the South Sea islands held about his predecessor, who had been eaten by the cannibals.
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

Weakness of any kind always appealed to her, and he, poor child! was weak indeed.
— from The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Half an hour passed and she did not appear.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry