There he stops for half a minute, while they look at each other in silence, then he hesitatingly approaches POPOVA]
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger , as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Vinteuil and herself a phraseology, a mentality not designed for vice, which made her regard it as not in any way different from the numberless little social duties and courtesies to which she must devote herself every day.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A good tenant can now feel that he is as valuable to his landlord as his landlord is to him; a prosperous tradesman can afford to feel independent of any particular customer.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Don Quixote stood looking on very calmly, and, when he saw him fall, leaped from his horse and with great briskness ran to him, and, presenting the point of his sword to his eyes, bade him surrender, or he would cut his head off.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And he handed a paper to the President.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Mary Hendríkhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing jacket and nightcap, was sitting on a broad bench in the front corner.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Even he,” answered Partridge.—“Then I warrant,” says she, “he'll have a swinging great estate hereafter.”—“Most
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The play made a very pronounced hit and placed another plume in Mr. Tullidge's cap as a dramatic author.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

In the second place, the under-valuation of Xenophon [Pg 62] rests, for the most part, on the false notion, that Socrates had a proper philosophy, i. e. a speculative system, and on an unhistorical mistaking of the limits by which the philosophical character of Socrates was conditioned and restricted.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

The ether left, on evaporation, a small quantity of a green substance having a pleasant ester odor.
— from Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) by William Anderson Syme

The duke's airy manner hid a persistent spirit, and, in spite of his worldliness, he esteemed the good character of the boy.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay

Go home and put on your Sunday best; there is time."
— from Dorian by Nephi Anderson

The Face of every one spoke a kind of Mirth, as if the Spectacle they had beheld had afforded Pleasure instead of Pain, which I am wholly unable to account for.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

“And why could not I have had a pair of clean ropes?”
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

Hunger and plague lay heavy on her people.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn

Huxham also pointed out that a person might be susceptible at one time but not at another, or insusceptible altogether; and the elder Heberden wrote: “Many instances have occurred to me which show that one who had never had the smallpox may safely associate, and even be in the same bed with a variolous patient for the first two or three days of the eruption without any danger of receiving the infection.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton