Even Mrs. Poyser could not trust herself to speak as the neighbours shook hands with her, and Lisbeth began to cry in the face of the very first person who told her she was getting young again.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

He was married and had a little boy, but was separated from his wife because she had been unfaithful to him, and now he hated her and used to send her forty roubles a month for the maintenance of their son.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"They have at least brought lasting happiness to him who slumbers here," she said.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Lord Marmion hath a letter broad, Which to the Scottish earl he showed, Commanding that beneath his care Without delay you shall repair To your good kinsman, Lord Fitz-Clare.”
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

It had a large black seal, bearing the D— cipher very conspicuously, and was addressed, in a diminutive female hand, to D—, the minister, himself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

I now remembered that, in fact, a fruiterer, carrying upon his head a large basket of apples, had nearly thrown me down, by accident, as we passed from the Rue C —— into the thoroughfare where we stood; but what this had to do with Chantilly
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Then Ulysses considered whether he should let drive so hard at him as to make an end of him then and there, or whether he should give him a lighter blow that should only knock him down; in the end he deemed it best to give the lighter blow for fear the Achaeans should begin to suspect who he was.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

"Anne," he said, "you must have a last bunch of pansies from the garden.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

It is an ordinary thing with several nations at this day to wound themselves in good earnest to gain credit to what they profess; of which our king, relates notable examples of what he has seen in Poland and done towards himself.—[Henry III.]—But besides this, which I know to have been imitated by some in France, when I came from that famous assembly of the Estates at Blois, I had a little before seen a maid in Picardy, who to manifest the ardour of her promises, as also her constancy, give herself, with a bodkin she wore in her hair, four or five good lusty stabs in the arm, till the blood gushed out to some purpose.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

'I think she's got a touch of that fever in her blood yet, and it won't come out—eh?' 'Like enough.' 'I'll let her a little blood, without troubling the doctor, if she's took that way again,' said Sikes.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The doctor, on the contrary, had a lank, bony figure, nearly six feet high, and looking more so from his slightness; a face sallow, thin, and strongly marked, an aquiline nose, highly developed forehead, and peculiar temples, over which the hair strayed in thin curling flakes.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He never doubted his power to bend her will to his, and, leaning back among the carriage-cushions, he resigned himself to pleasing dreams of the future.
— from Castle Hohenwald: A Romance by Adolf Streckfuss

He has a little boy who tumbled on the fender and had to have his forehead thewn up with needle and cotton!
— from Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre

Concerning the gravity of the situation he neither deceived himself nor attempted to deceive others who were entitled to know it, and with absolute accuracy he prophesied the movements of his adversary long before they were made.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

He was looking for some sign to give him a lead, but there was only easy good-nature in the deep gray eyes beneath their shaggy brows.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

His prey was a full-grown hen and was heavy as lead, but when he arose with his spoil he never let go his hold.
— from The Race of the Swift by Edwin Carlile Litsey

His Holiness was then conducted to the gate of the Seraglio, presented with a richly caparisoned horse, and led by viziers and pashas to the palace appointed as his residence.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

He threw her a laughing backward glance as he went off to give directions to some of his other guests.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I 98 only saw the hall and library, but they were magnificent.” “Don’t weep, Marvelous Manager.”
— from Marjorie Dean, College Junior by Josephine Chase

By this firm and conciliatory treatment he at length brought them to a more reasonable state of mind, and induced them to lay aside all thoughts of war and preserve their friendship with the whites.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens