"You damned …," in the first gurglings of his excitement his words could hardly be understood, K. was startled even though he had been expecting something of the sort and ran to his uncle with the intention, no doubt, of closing his mouth with both his hands.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

M. Latouche, however, escaped him in another way.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Even those who grudged him his extraordinary honours now thought that by his unselfishness he had shown himself worthy of them, and admired his courage in refusing such presents more than the courage by which he had won the right to them.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Accordingly Marcus was M. Atilius Regulus remains in Africa, winter of B.C. 256-255. left behind with forty ships, fifteen thousand infantry, and five hundred cavalry; while Lucius put the crowd of captives on board, and having embarked his men, sailed along the coast of Sicily without encountering any danger, and reached Rome.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then comtemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it “too many for him” and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

What has ever happen'd—what happens, and whatever may or shall happen, the vital laws inclose all.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The indian who visited us yesterday exchanged his horse with one of our party for a very indiferant one in which exchange he rcived a Small ax a Knife &c. Soon after he had exchanged he returned to his village well Satisfied.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Spleen to mankind his envious heart possess'd, And much he hated all, but most the best: Ulysses or Achilles still his theme; But royal scandal his delight supreme, Long had he lived the scorn of every Greek, Vex'd when he spoke, yet still they heard him speak.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Luckily it missed, but she would not have escaped her mother’s talons if I had not flung myself between them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Politely, but in dignified terms, as befitted his errand, he briefly explained the motive for his visit.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I wish you could see how he enjoys hearing Avis sing.”
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Every man then turns his eyes humbly to the ground as the Imaun recites the Fatiha or Lord’s Prayer: “In the name of the most merciful God; praise be to God the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the Lord of the Day of Judgment.
— from Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes by Andrée Hope

Yet, except in the frescoes of the beautiful Sala del Cambio, much of Perugino's best work is to be found elsewhere, rather than in the town wherein he established his academy, and from which he took his name as a painter.
— from Pictures in Umbria by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

Then he expressed his satisfaction at my acquisition of Gensburg, and when I told him there was not much room in the castle he said, no matter, he could nevertheless pass a few days there with a couple of gentlemen very pleasantly.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

But since his eyes had again rested upon Rosamund, Asad was no longer sane.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

Since then, as we know, these two movements have each had a great and vigorous career which is still far from completed.
— from Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger

A china mender told me he estimates his time at twenty-five cents an hour.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

I hev hearn ez his boys do that job, so he ain't like ter find it out.
— from The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

They did not know how his feelings yearned towards them, nor how eagerly he would have joined in all their simple pursuits, had he dared to do so; but the poor fellow had discovered that any notice he took of the children aroused suspicion, and he therefore concluded to pursue a prudent course.
— from Po-No-Kah: An Indian Tale of Long Ago by Mary Mapes Dodge

As Perry sat that night on the quarter-deck of the Lawrence, conversing with his few remaining officers, while ever and anon the moans of his brave comrades below were borne to his ear, he was solemn and subdued.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley