He had been so terribly in earnest with the study of his profession that he had at length made a mark on his generation.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We can have a little music and——” “Thanks awfully, old chap,” said Ignatius Gallaher, “I’m sorry we didn’t meet earlier.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Horatius A Lay Made About the Year Of
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

She had taken my hand, and leading me and Miss Jellyby away, beckoned Richard and Ada to come too.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Then I will have a last made, and you shall make me a pair of shoes, if you will; but I warn you they must be of the finest skin, and the soles of morocco.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

God's my life, stol'n hence, and left me asleep!
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Then rose Elaine and glided through the fields, And past beneath the weirdly-sculptured gates Far up the dim rich city to her kin; There bode the night: but woke with dawn, and past Down through the dim rich city to the fields, Thence to the cave: so day by day she past In either twilight ghost-like to and fro Gliding, and every day she tended him, And likewise many a night: and Lancelot Would, though he called his wound a little hurt Whereof he should be quickly whole, at times Brain-feverous in his heat and agony, seem Uncourteous, even he: but the meek maid Sweetly forbore him ever, being to him Meeker than any child to a rough nurse, Milder than any mother to a sick child, And never woman yet, since man's first fall, Did kindlier unto man, but her deep love Upbore her; till the hermit, skilled in all The simples and the science of that time, Told him that her fine care had saved his life.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

She then entreated me to come upstairs, sobbing that Mr. Barkis had always liked me and admired me; that he had often talked of me, before he fell into a stupor; and that she believed, in case of his coming to himself again, he would brighten up at sight of me, if he could brighten up at any earthly thing.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

One Hunt, a labouring man at a small town in Shropshire, kept a mastiff, who on being shut up on Sundays, whilst his master went to church, howled so terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore his master resolved to take him to church with him: but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps formerly been whipped out by the sexton, refused to enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog's obstinacy, who would neither go to church nor stay at home.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Nevertheless, unable to endure the torments of such interesting suspense, he at length made an effort to expostulate with the fair orphan; and in an abrupt address, the effect of his fear and confusion, begged to know if he had inadvertently done anything to incur her displeasure.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He asserts, like Mr. Andrews, that society has failed, but proposes a different mode of reconstruction.
— from Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

But Russ was still back at Aunt Jo's house, and Laddie, much as he wanted to save his brother's kite, wanted even more to save his own.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's by Laura Lee Hope

We now find him at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, in "Hooker's battle above the clouds," where the victory was so suddenly and unexpectedly won, that scarcely sufficient time intervened in which to display valor.
— from The Seventh Regiment: A Record by George L. Wood

His nose was a snub, very broad with huge nostrils, his complexion was pale; he had a large mouth, and big drooping underlip.
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

She had a little money, and she stayed.
— from The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Up a steep slope, and over a bank which is not very big, but being composed of loose gravel and peat mould, gives down with me, nearly sending me head over heels in the heather, and leaving me a sheer gap to scramble through, and out on the open moor.
— from Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

It had a limited membership, and election was the assurance of certain qualities in the woman who was received as a member.
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

“He and Lil make a good pair,” said Jess.
— from The Girls of Central High in Camp; Or, the Old Professor's Secret by Gertrude W. Morrison

He shook hands and left me, and I went down and read with mamma.”
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

There seemed such a contrast between my conduct to God, and His to me; and then it has made me, I hope, a little more, (a very little, you know,) I am not boasting, Emilie, am I?
— from Emilie the Peacemaker by Geldart, Thomas, Mrs.