So home and late at business at my office.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then we fed him a little, and by and by he seemed to comprehend the situation and a grateful light softened his eye.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The greater part of his life has been given up to the study and criticism of English literature of the past, and he has a learned and balanced enthusiasm for every writer who has written excellently in English.”— London Saturday Review.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

He will help you to be good; and you can go to Heaven at last, and be an angel forever, just as much as if you were white.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is certain that some women have as large a brain as any man.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

VENUS AND ADONIS Even as the sun with purple-colour’d face Had ta’en his last leave of the weeping morn, Rose-cheek’d Adonis tried him to the chase; Hunting he lov’d, but love he laugh’d to scorn; 4 Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him, And like a bold-fac’d suitor ’gins to woo him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The crowd runs out; both matrons and new-married women mixed with the men, both high and low, are borne along to the celebration of rites till then unknown.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

She raised her eyes, and clasped her hands, and looked as beautiful and true, I thought, as any Spirit.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

If you leave her any longer at Blackwater Park, you do nothing whatever to hasten her sister's recovery, and at the same time, you risk the public scandal, which you and I, and all of us, are bound in the sacred interests of the family to avoid.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[Jealousies of a Country Town.] LA ROCHE-HUGON (Martial de), shrewd, turbulent and daring Southerner, had a long and brilliant administrative career in politics.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Mr. de Gerando does not understand how any love affair between Therese and Beethoven could have escaped the curious gossips in society, eager for news and scandal.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
— from His Last Week The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

I had a London agent by that time, a mannie who booked engagements for me in the provinces.
— from Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir

Yet, as Miss Edgeworth pertinently observed in her preface to Harry and Lucy , after being too much the fashion, metaphysics had been thrown aside too disdainfully, and their use and abuse confounded.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

They had heads as large as barrels, their moustaches were like horses' tails, they covered two ells at each stride, and swords two ells in length hung heavily on their shoulders.
— from Tales From Jókai by Mór Jókai

"Well, Dame, if I were in your place, I'd just send him a line, and bid him stay away till the storm blows over."
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

Early in the year, before the snow had melted at all on the high places, went a great lumbering bear that had a lair above Big Meadows, going down to the calf-pens and pig-sties of the town at the foot of Kearsarge.
— from The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

"I had a letter at breakfast that disturbed me," he replied, seating himself away from Madeline.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

Some of these torrents disappear underground a few hundred yards from the hills and leave a broad river-bed empty for miles, except during the Rains.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

The Jews urge the law of God for the crucifying his Son (John xix. 7): “We have a law, and by that law he is to die,” and would make him a party in their private revenge.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock