Since the farce of the “Invincibles” nothing had ever been so ludicrously successful.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He then did as his elder brother did.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Las habitaciones, espaciosas, bien iluminadas, de altos techos, se suceden una tras otra
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There is, too, among them the aged Emathion, an observer of justice, and a fearer of the Gods; as his years prevent him from fighting, he engages by talking, and he condemns and utters imprecations against their accursed arms.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Noggs has lived in this house, now going on for five years, and nobody has ever been to see him before, within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ten minutes later the innkeeper slipped into the room, his eyes bright with excitement.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

She is usually represented as being in the full maturity of womanhood, of fair aspect, and wearing a flowing garment, which drapes her noble, majestic form; in her right hand she holds the sword of justice, and in her left the scales, which indicate the impartiality with which every cause is carefully weighed by her, her eyes being bandaged so that the personality of the individual should carry no weight with respect to the verdict.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

“Charles being the elder son, some day Charles will have Howards End; but I am anxious, in my own happiness, not to be unjust to others.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

We may, indeed, assume that it was known in the fifth century; for a considerable time must have elapsed before it became so famous that a foreign king desired its translation.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Apart from which,’ said Mrs. Micawber, ‘I will not disguise from you, my dear Master Copperfield, that when that branch of my family which is settled in Plymouth, became aware that Mr. Micawber was accompanied by myself, and by little Wilkins and his sister, and by the twins, they did not receive him with that ardour which he might have expected, being so newly released from captivity.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He probably had supposed that a more intimate acquaintance had existed between me, and the writer of the letter, and was prepared for a painful scene.
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

He is situated at a determined point in space, and it has even been held, and sustained with good reasons, that all sensations have something special about them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He stopped at a little moss-covered cabin on the burn-side, beneath Craig Castle in Mid-Lothian, and was hospitably entertained by its simple inhabitants.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Rarely upon that cheek was shed, By health or by youth, one tinge of red, And never closest look could descry, In shine or shade, the hue of her eye, But, as it were made of light, it changed With every sunbeam that over it ranged."
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

A soft, thick shawl had been dropped over her, evidently by the person in question.
— from Theo: A Sprightly Love Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The person of Colonel Wellmere first met his eye, bending towards the figure of the blushing Sarah with an earnestness of manner that prevented the noise of Lawton’s entrance from being heard by either party.
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper

To enable them (the professors) to earn their livelihood by philosophy?—Since I had proved this truth in my prize-essay more clearly than had ever been done before, and since moreover a Royal Society had sanctioned that proof by placing my essay among its memoranda, it surely behoved these worthies, considering the views they held, to make a vigorous attack upon so pernicious a doctrine, so detestable a heresy, and thoroughly to refute it.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

“I have ever been thy friend.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

At the beginning of his reign, the Ulema was resolved, if possible, to prevent the new Sultan from carrying on those reforms which had ever been so distasteful to the Turks, grating at once against their religious associations and their pride of race, and which recent events had certainly proved not to be productive of those good results anticipated by Sultan Mamoud.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various