He accordingly lapsed into moodiness, and at every allusion to the possibility of Farfrae's near election to the municipal chair his former hatred of the Scotchman returned.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Here a line is missing, as again at l. 59.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

So he kept the place to himself and loved it more and more.
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton

Still others mentioned the kindness she had shown them, and poured out many stories of Paula's universal love for all—of her visits to the poor and sick, and of how she had pointed them to the Saviour who had died to take away their sin; bringing joy and hope and liberty into many a home where only discord and misery had reigned before.
— from Paula the Waldensian by Eva Lecomte

We heard a lesson in mental arithmetic given in one of the class-rooms, the boys sitting on one side of the room and the girls on the other; and we found that these young sickly children were admirably taught and well advanced for their age.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

"Miss Molly," said he at last, "I mout as well tell ye.
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

Her conscience still troubled her for playing stork, and she had resolved to spend some of her abundant leisure in making amends in this way.
— from The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

I have a little influence myself, and my own boy is secure.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 2/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This Dorothy was glad enough to do, and she walked away, feeling that Kathleen had taught her a lesson in making allowance for the unconsciousness of a child's wrongdoing.
— from The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells

Smith visited him at "Lipswicke in Misenland," and the Prince "gave him his Passe, intimating the service he had done, and the honors he had received, with fifteen hundred ducats of gold to repair his losses."
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner