The tourist-student, having duly reflected, asked the Senator whether he should allow three generations, or more, to swing the Russian people into the Western movement.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Here Don Rodrigo having intelligence that the foxhunter had spoilt his estate, which was to be exposed to sale by public auction, he determined to make a purchase of the spot where he was born, and actually bought all the land that belonged to his father.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“I hope he does,” replied Mr. Knightley coolly, and resuming the letter.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

They were, however, drawing rapidly to a close.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Abgarus, the last king of Edessa, was sent in chains to Rome, his dominions reduced into a province, and his capital dignified with the rank of colony; and thus the Romans, about ten years before the fall of the Parthian monarchy, obtained a firm and permanent establishment beyond the Euphrates.
— 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

We had delightful readings; and, once in a while, when William Henry Channing was in the neighborhood, he would preach us a sermon."
— from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

“Oh, Mr. Walters!” hailed Mrs. Merlin, coming from the house, “when you see Mr. 242 Hebler, tell him I put his diamond ring away.
— from Penny of Top Hill Trail by Belle Kanaris Maniates

The conversation was here interrupted by the entrance of the phenomenon, who had discreetly remained in the bedroom up to this moment, and now presented herself, with much grace and lightness, bearing in her hand a very little green parasol with a broad fringe border, and no handle.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Here Mr. Archer turned to Nance Holdaway with a pleasant smile, so full of sweetness, kindness, and composure that, at one bound, her dreams returned to her.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

At this moment, Pierre pulled his horse short up, dismounted silently, and with a gesture to the well-trained and gallant animal, which, it was evident, he understood—for he stood stock still on the instant, with ears erect, expanded nostril, straining eye, quivering in every limb with fiery eagerness—cast himself down, rifle in hand, among the shorter herbage which clothed the steep ascent.
— from The Silent Rifleman! A tale of the Texan prairies by Henry William Herbert

Michelet, in his Gaule sous les Romains , a most able and interesting work—Thierry, in his Domination Romaine en Gaule , and his Histoire des Rois Merovingians —Sismondi, in the three first volumes of his Histoire des Français —and Guizot, in his Civilisation Européenne , and the first volumes of his Essais sur l'Histoire de France —have applied their great powers to this most interesting subject.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

You have deferred rescuing the poor city of Wesel from the hands of the Spaniard long enough.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

This was a daring undertaking, as the fleet, he thought, had doubtless received notice of his escape, and the enemy would be rigid in their search.
— from Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People by Marmaduke Park