A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole’s own goblin ha!
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

But without the disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, every man must have procured to himself every necessary and conveniency of life which he wanted.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

PORTIA'S house Enter NERISSA, and a SERVITOR NERISSA.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘Tis pride that diverts him from the common path, and makes him embrace novelties, and rather choose to be head of a troop, lost and wandering in the path of error; to be a master and a teacher of lies, than to be a disciple in the school of truth, suffering himself to be led and guided by the hand of another, in the right and beaten road.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When Balashëv had ended, Napoleon again took out his snuffbox, sniffed at it, and stamped his foot twice on the floor as a signal.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She started no difficulties that were not talked down in five minutes by her eldest nephew and niece, who were all-powerful with her; and as the whole arrangement was to bring very little expense to anybody, and none at all to herself, as she foresaw in it all the comforts of hurry, bustle, and importance, and derived the immediate advantage of fancying herself obliged to leave her own house, where she had been living a month at her own cost, and take up her abode in theirs, that every hour might be spent in their service, she was, in fact, exceedingly delighted with the project.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“Did you ever see such a collection of rumty-too people?” Soames, glancing at her beneath his eyelids, nodded, and he saw Irene steal at him one of her unfathomable looks.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Seated in an ample armchair before a corner where a marble stove was smouldering, he had effected no alteration in his costume beyond having exchanged his patent leather boots for a pair of heelless, red felt slippers.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Thus, there are some who vomit up every particle of what they have eaten, not after three or four hours, but actually in the middle of the night, a lengthy period having elapsed since their meal.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It is time we rose above the mean political enmities which have embarrassed not a little this imperative evangelism.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 by Various

But then she had expected none; and though her tongue was burning to talk, of course she did not say a word.
— from Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

He saw the tinker stroking a white cat, and appealing to her, every now and then, as his missus, for an opinion or a confirmation; and he thought that a curious sight.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

So, if Malcolm is immortal, he exists now, as he existed here; unchanged; loving me, as he told Cicely he should always love me; and waiting for me, as he told her he would wait.”
— from The Third Window by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

One says, "There is no God;" the other says, "God is not here or there, any more than he exists now and then ."
— from Absurdities of Immaterialism Or, A Reply to T. W. P. Taylder's Pamphlet, Entitled, "The Materialism of the Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, Examined and Exposed." by Orson Pratt

I could hear every now and then the mutterings and occasional roars of lions, with the cries of hyaenas and jackals, and the calls of various night-birds.
— from Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston

He opened his eyes, now, and smiled at her.
— from The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day by Charles Turner Dazey

As soon as she began to show signs of death, the women about her every now and then set up a horrible howling, which they continued at short intervals after her decease.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

“I bless God I have lain hard ere now, and can do the same again with thankfulness.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11 by Robert Louis Stevenson