" She paused, as if she had expected Robert to speak; but he stood silent and motionless, waiting for the end.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

As regards this unseen world I understand them to say that some miscarry in respect to it before they have even reached the seen, and some after, while few are ever truly born into it at all—the greater part of all the men and women over the whole country miscarrying before they reach it.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

He even refused to see his granddaughter.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In your case, I have every reason to suppose that my notes contain something which he actually wished to say to you.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He even replaced the statues of Sylla and Pompey, which had been thrown down by the populace.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Under these circumstances each individual, in so far as he may be said to reflect, in his own consciousness and in his emotional reactions, the sentiments and emotions of all the others, tends at the same time to modify the sentiments and attitudes of those others.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Bad old man," he exclaimed, "rather than sell my slave to you I would give her to a Jew."
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The queen her speech with calm attention hears, Her eyes restrain the silver-streaming tears: She bathes, and robed, the sacred dome ascends; Her pious speed a female train attends: The salted cakes in canisters are laid, And thus the queen invokes Minerva's aid; "Daughter divine of Jove, whose arm can wield The avenging bolt, and shake the dreadful shield If e'er Ulysses to thy fane preferr'd
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The thought troubled him to such an extent, that a week later he even resolved to send an official to him, to learn whether he really could assist him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His Scalacronica embodies the results of research in the library of his prison where he found Scottish chronicles in verse and prose, in Latin, French, and English, and he expressly refers to such chronicles in his account of Bruce, letting us know that there was in existence
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

I am also told that Dr. Butler has everywhere recommended them; so that I hope that they will have some success."
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

He had enjoyed reading the story in its finished state, and when he had packed the manuscript into his portmanteau, he had felt that the story was good, and had sat in a chair dreaming of the success it would make and the praise he would receive for it.
— from Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

There seems," he hesitated; "eh, Robert, there seems a something upon us all.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 by George Meredith

Yet she did not seem in a hurry to depart, and I do not know what complications might have ensued, if another movement in the curtain had not reawakened her fears and caused her, notwithstanding her evident reluctance, to start quickly away.
— from X Y Z: A Detective Story by Anna Katharine Green

Her hands were shaking and her eyelids red, the sight swept away all his conventions.
— from Twilight by Julia Frankau

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— from The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize by Allen Chapman

Next she stepped briskly from the room; and the architect who was using her eyes rejoiced to see the door-knobs of the standard height of thirty-five inches, indicating that this agent of hers was of about her own height.
— from The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint

"But," I said, "Petralto, you have no right to hug such a delusion; and seeing that you had made no attempt to follow Jessy and marry her, she had every right to suppose you really had forgotten her.
— from Winter Evening Tales by Amelia E. Barr

She had every reason to suppose that her prayers were heard.
— from The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale by Joseph Conrad