In the books on political economy—in Mill, for instance, whom he studied first with great ardor, hoping every minute to find an answer to the questions that were engrossing him—he found laws deduced from the condition of land culture in Europe; but he did not see why these laws, which did not apply in Russia, must be general.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Where does he expect me to get it?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Note 501 ( return ) [ Claudius must have expended more time in his march from Marseilles to Gessoriacum, as Boulogne was then called, than in his vaunted conquest of Britain.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

At the age of 13 Ben Zion began his wandering career, and passing a chapel in a forest, [109] his eyes met the image of the Madonna and Child.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

chommoda dīcēbat, sī quandō commoda vellet dīcere Arrius , Cat. 84, 1, hadvantages said Arrius, if advantages he ever meant to say . sī quis prehenderētur, cōnsēnsū mīlitum ēripiēbātur , Caes.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The doctor chanced to pass by the place where we were, and stopping to observe me appeared very well satisfied with my application; and afterwards sent for me to his cabin, where, having examined me touching my skill in surgery, and the particulars of my fortune, he interested himself so far in my behalf, as to promise his assistance in procuring a warrant for me, seeing I had already been found qualified at Surgeons' Hall for the station I filled on board; and in this good office he the more cordially engaged when he understood I was nephew to lieutenant Bowling, for whom he expressed a particular regard.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But now, how easily might these, dashing out on Lafayette, snatch off the Hereditary Representative; and roll away with him, after the manner of a whirlblast, whither they listed!—Enough, it were well the King did not go.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He explained, moreover, that there were at Port Royal abundant supplies of bread and provisions, as well as of clothing, designed for our use.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

These sayings are the essence of his Eastern message to the Western world.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I resented it, because it seemed to imply that he expected me to respond to it.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The dark young man flushed, but his eyes met those of Dick steadily.
— from A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine

It was so small that the youth squeezed through with difficulty and had even more trouble getting his knapsack on the other side.
— from Dave Porter in the Far North; Or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy by Edward Stratemeyer

An old man here also has often met “the secret people,” and when asked to describe one strange “fairy lord” he has encountered more than once, it was so like G. R’s drawing that that was shown him among several others, and he at once picked it out!
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

No sooner had Elizabeth made this ominous remark when I ran to the door and howled in a manner which penetrated the whole house from the housemaids’ rooms upstairs to the housekeeper’s room in the basement.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

He said it was the greatest effort of self-restraint that he ever made that he did not thrash the men who were there triumphing over him.
— from The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga by Unknown

Why I thought nobody ever got here, except me to order my coals and the Major in the parlours to smoke his cigar!”—for I saw that blessed man close by, pretending to it.
— from Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings by Charles Dickens

When the sun rose, his head rested on her bosom and her lips hovered lovingly above his own, and the hum of the waking city, borne to his ears, may, to him, have been the distant harmony of a pæan of victory hymned in hell.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

I was induced to draw this conclusion from consulting the records of Bethlem, where I found that few of those who had been sent to the Small-pox Hospital recovered; but subsequent experience has enabled me to point out this distinction: that those who have been in a furious state have generally experienced a fatal termination, and that those who recovered had the small-pox when they were in a state of convalescence from their insanity.
— from Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

She had enough money to hire a maid now, and she had a succession of slatternly, independent young women in her kitchen, but she found her freedom strangely flat.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

He even managed to confess straight out the circumstances of his capture, that he had ignored the call to retreat, only to have his musket misfire.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover