He recurred to the scene now with a perception that he had probably made Lydgate his enemy, and with an awakened desire to propitiate him, or rather to create in him a strong sense of personal obligation.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

At the utmost, he hinted at some shade of prodigality by quietly inviting his son to act as private secretary during the winter in Washington, as though any young man who could afford to throw away two winters on the Civil Law could afford to read Blackstone for another winter without a master.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He is left alone with the gentleman in the office, who sits at a table with account-books before him and some sheets of paper blotted with hosts of figures and drawings of cunning shapes.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

'Not until I have applied some strips of plaster; and you have rested a little.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Many scanty fortunes spring up; those who possess them have a sufficient share of physical gratifications to conceive a taste for these pleasures—not enough to satisfy it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"The new philosophy makes man, including nature as his basis, the highest and sole subject of philosophy, and, consequently, anthropology the universal science."
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

' William Morris has a sunny slope of Parnassus all to himself, and Mr. Swinburne has written some verses over which the world will long love to linger.
— from Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell

Gazing after the retreating company, the sap-engro said to himself, “A strange set of people, I page 12 p. 12 wonder who they can be.”
— from Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by James Hooper

Mr. Stone made a movement of his head, and Cecilia saw that he held a second sheet of paper in his hand.
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

Whereupon, without further comment, but with a smile she did not understand, he had handed her a small slip of paper on which he had scribbled an address.
— from The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green

The mother bent her head, a sharp sensation of pity bringing tears into her eyes.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

He may put his shilling by, and have a second spell of play, long or short as the case may be, with the same termination to it.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

In the summer of 1776, Virginia took official note of “Captain Boone of Boonesborough,” for she sent him a small supply of powder.
— from Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner