He had an instinctive mistrust of her desire for the place.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

And by carefully giving way to the inclination of the leaves, he did find it, or within a page or two, quite near enough to satisfy Lady Bertram, who assured him, as soon as he mentioned the name of Cardinal Wolsey, that he had got the very speech.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

If he has a doubt on the subject, then he deserves to be kicked, for in that case he must mistrust my honesty (which is the only thing that can rouse me to rage) and also my talents; but the latter, indeed, I know he does, for he once said to me that he did not believe I was capable of writing a French opera.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Her very bones seemed to bid him keep his distance from her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It seemed to me that so far Gibberne was only going to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quicker in thought and act than we are all the time.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Julie and Saint-Preux became names to conjure with; their ill-starred amours were everywhere sighed and wept over by the tender-hearted fair; indeed, in composing this work, Rousseau may be said to have done for Switzerland what the author of the Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with creatures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to every breast.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mrs. Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the “Dante reading” instead of joining them.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

,” said the abbé, extending his hand over the wounded man, as if to command him to believe; “this is what the God in whom, on your death-bed, you refuse to believe, has done for you—he gave you health, strength, regular employment, even friends—a life, in fact, which a man might enjoy with a calm conscience.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And as [1910] Pliny doth ingenuously confess to his dear friend Augurinus, all thy writings are most acceptable, but those especially that speak of us.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But she won't open her door for none of them.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

"In the last day, that great day of the feast," when the silver trumpets were sounding, and the priests were bearing up to the temple court the water which they had drawn from that brook Siloam which "flows fast by the oracles of God," "Jesus stood and cried, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
— from Strong Souls A Sermon by Charles Beard

And then, and there, we have lost not only a mother but our childhood itself, which half disappears, for our little life of girlhood belonged to her as much as to ourselves.
— from Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant

The dissection of executed criminals was abolished soon after the discovery of the crime of burking, with the idea that ignominy would no longer attach to an operation which ceased to be compulsory for the most degraded beings; and that executors or persons having lawful possession of the bodies of people who had died friendless, would voluntarily surrender them for the advancement of medical science.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

Their successors, however, during four hundred years had leisure and plentiful opportunities of cultivating taste, and travel was highly organised among them.
— from The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: London to York by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It was happy days for both of us when Sophy and me began to travel in the cart.
— from Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens

"If the river should unfortunately end here, Mr. Park would feel his situation extremely critical; he would however be guided by his distance from the coast, by the character of the surrounding nations, and by the existing circumstances of his situation.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park

Since 2000, most ebook formats have derived from the OeB format, for example LIT from Microsoft and PRC format from Mobipocket.
— from The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Marie Lebert