Here every thing is art, nakedly, or but awkwardly concealed.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

His excellent transformation into a nabob defender of Madame Theodore Gaillard made the former convict so angry that, during the last years of the Restoration, he took revenge on him by making away with him.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

“Yes,” replied Mr. Wickham; “his estate there is a noble one.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The recognition of man’s free will as something capable of influencing historical events, that is, as not subject to laws, is the same for history as the recognition of a free force moving the heavenly bodies would be for astronomy.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Tell your general," says he, with hot pride, "and let him say it to his emperor, that I am no man's vassal!
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

He had entered the institution at North Yarmouth, and by his assiduous attention, almost finished his education.
— from Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

In the next place, the cessation of immediate intercourse with China arrested the flow of immigrants, hard-working and frugal men, who would have exploited the industries and natural products of the island.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

His father, he thought angrily, had encouraged the ideal, and now he forbade it, like the brute he was.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

But Maeterlinck has elected to introduce a new and more disturbing element.
— from Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker

“So, then, you agree?” cried he, with a malicious twinkle in his eye that I affected not to understand.
— from That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

Surely there are such men; happily enough there is a nucleus of men who have escaped the so-much-advocated specialization of labor, and it is precisely to them that industry owes its chief recent inventions.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

I am passing happy here, except that I am not well,—so unwell that I fear I must go home and ask my good mother to let me rest and vegetate beneath her sunny kindness for a while.
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

But they still linger round their ancestral homestead, and one pair, determined not to quit altogether the sacred precincts that have sheltered them and theirs for generations, have established themselves in a niche behind the iron pipe of the [Pg 95] stove.
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight