We've got no room in the house a third as large as this.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The timorous girl, till tired out with play She felt his hot breath stir her tangled hair, And turned, and looked, and fled no more from such delightful snare.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

At home all the afternoon looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"My mind has a twist aside, like almost everybody's mind, except your own.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happily, at this period, a relative named Pintrel directed his attention to ancient literature, and advised him to make himself familiar with Horace, Homer, Virgil, Terence, and Quinctilian.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Thence I to White Hall, and in the street I spied Mrs. Borroughs, and took a means to meet and salute her and talk a little, and then parted, and I home by coach, taking up my wife at the Exchange, and there I am mightily pleased with this Mrs. Smith, being a very pleasant woman.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

a week which his father receives of the French church, is all the subsistence his father and mother have, and that about L20 a year maintains them; which, if it please God, I will find one way or other to provide for them, to remove that scandal away.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then Sir Pellinore put off his armour; then a little afore midnight they heard the trotting of an horse.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Tell the other gentlemen—I heard Mr Demming up, and Mr Edgeworthy, if he appears, that as long as it is such a pleasant morning, we're having breakfast outside.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

[Pg xlv] Crœsus at once made preparations to attack them, but was informed by his ambassador that, as long as they had Æsop amongst them, he would find it difficult to reduce them, such well-grounded confidence had they in that person's wisdom.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

When it was all over, and friends had trooped round to the stage to praise her, and trooped away, laughing and happy, she felt a strange, sad, unused reluctance to see them go.
— from Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

"What do you say to the English Lakes, Lily?" he asked, "they are lovely at this time of year, and the rush of the tourist season has scarcely begun.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens

Never do I reflect upon his hard fate, and the bitter though mysterious persecution of body which pursued him, dogged him, and thickened as life advanced, but I feel gratitude to Heaven for my own exemption from suffering in that particular form; and, in the midst of afflictions, of which two or three have been most hard to bear,—because not unmingled with pangs of remorse for the share which I myself may have had in causing them,—still, by comparison with the lot of Charles Lloyd, I acknowledge my own to have been happy and serene.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

An Indian injured in the mine is more apt to run away than to report at the hospital, and to appear later as a litigant against the company, demanding—and with government aid frequently winning—a sinecure for life.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Colonel Starbuck lifted himself a trifle, and looked across.
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

He was born in a lowly house in College-street, York, in 1800; here he served his apprenticeship to a linendraper, and subsequently carried on the business as principal, amassing considerable wealth.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

Hours later that same day, when the tumult in the long main room of the gymnasium had hushed and the apathetic Legs and his helper had turned again to their endless task of grooming the waxed floor, Dennison, the manager of Jed The Red, sitting in that same chair which Morehouse had occupied, 229 cuddling one knee in his hands, fairly basked in that same smile.
— from Once to Every Man by Larry Evans

The African is both pleased and cursed by being possessed of a very warm heart, and tender and loving affections.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

The seal may be said to be deprived of the use of his limbs, as his arms, thighs, and legs are almost entirely shut up within his body, while nothing appears without but his hands and feet, which are, it is true, furnished with five fingers or toes, but which are scarcely moveable, being united by a strong membrane, so that they might more properly be called fins than hands and feet, being more adapted for the purpose of swimming than walking.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de