He is her lover, whoever he is; but she may need help and womanly counsel;—there may be difficulties or temptations which I don't know.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I didn't promise, but I looked at him, and he seemed satisfied, and there was no time for anything but messages and good-byes, for he was off in an hour, and we all miss him very much.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"But I shall be ready to think well of him again when he gives me good reason to do so.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nagdugù ang íyang buktung daghag kinamrasan, His arms were all bloody with the numerous scratches he had received.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"If you hadn't sent for me," he added with a laugh, "who knows what Glorvina's name might be now?" At present it is Glorvina Posky (now Mrs. Major Posky); she took him on the death of his first wife, having resolved never to marry out of the regiment.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And our State must once more enlarge; and this time the enlargement will be nothing short of a whole army, which 374 will have to go out and fight with the invaders for all that we have, as well as for the things and persons whom we were describing above.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But as he was still conscious that he deserved another audience, and another theatre, he accepted, with no unworthy ambition, the honorable invitation, which was addressed to him from the orthodox party of Constantinople.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Some are worked by handspikes and windlasses, some by blocks and pulleys, others by capstans, others again by means of drums.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Nor had Sancho any other care (now that he fancied he was travelling in a safe quarter) than to satisfy his appetite with such remains as were left of the clerical spoils, and so he marched behind his master laden with what Dapple used to carry, emptying the sack and packing his paunch, and so long as he could go that way, he would not have given a farthing to meet with another adventure.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sadly she saw her mother turn from her, declaring as she went that Kate would lose every cent she had, and when she did she need not come hanging around her.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

Even after they had reached their hotel and were in their rooms he maintained an air of gloomy thought.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

Then were rooms appointed for the Ethiopian, and Pharaoh rose from his palace sad at heart and went fasting to his couch.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

Ef she'd rared or kicked in the traces, or hung back only ez much ez that, we'd hev given him jest five minits' law to get up and get and leave her, and we'd hev toted that gal and her fixin's back to her dad again!
— from A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

When they made their report to Swiftwater, a look of intense satisfaction crossed his face, and he remarked: “Wa-al, I guess that cuts out one big engineerin’ problem that might o’ kept us here a week.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Ralph Victor

“The Utes are having a war-dance, mother,” he announced when he had closed the stout door of the kitchen behind him.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

Her arm was stretched out with a queenly gesture, at once of warning and command.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford