An average of 2 or 3 miles per hour is good hiking time in the rough park country.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

He is given, however, to indulge his veneration for family usages and family encumbrances to a whimsical extent.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

[251] should be left to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch, from his infernal grasp, his trembling prey.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead; and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write, ‘Here is good horse to hire,’ let them signify under my sign ‘Here you may see Benedick the married man.’ CLAUDIO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As soon as I saw her, I gave her the key, although I did not know what it meant, and my friend, heaving a deep sigh, told me that she would explain everything as soon as we were safe in her room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For whereas the friends of Job drew their arguments from his Affliction to his Sinne, and he defended himselfe by the conscience of his Innocence, God himselfe taketh up the matter, and having justified the Affliction by arguments drawn from his Power, such as this "Where was thou when I layd the foundations of the earth," and the like, both approved Job's Innocence, and reproved the Erroneous doctrine of his friends.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

On the very last day of the regiment's remaining at Meryton, he dined, with other of the officers, at Longbourn; and so little was Elizabeth disposed to part from him in good humour, that on his making some inquiry as to the manner in which her time had passed at Hunsford, she mentioned Colonel Fitzwilliam's and Mr. Darcy's having both spent three weeks at Rosings, and asked him, if he was acquainted with the former.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Have I got him, though?’ cried Mr Snawley, scarcely able to believe it.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

However, I got him to sign and swear an affidavit that there was treaties between T. Trice and me with as much advantage as I could for me, but I will say that for him he was most exact as ever I saw man in my life, word by word what it was that he swore to, and though, God forgive me, I could have been almost naturally willing to have let him ignorantly have sworn to something that was not of itself very certain, either or no, yet out of his own conscience and care he altered the words himself so as to make them very safe for him to swear.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He was quite surprised at the hurt it gave him to be away from Hazel.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

He pluckily replied to the derision of his relatives with multiplied derision, demanded his inheritance, got his traps together, bought a fur coat, and straightway sailed the wintry seas to Canada.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

“He means just as he says,” said Mr Snow to young Mr Greenleaf, as he overtook him in going home that afternoon.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

But she said that the orchid-house was so hot it gave her the headache.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“I am sure my dear Earl was very kind to him in giving him that great estate in Virginia.”
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

But it is good, and an ease for me, to have Some ache of body.—Now if there's any chink In death, surely my love will reach to thee, Surely thou wilt be ware of how I go Henceforth through life utterly thine.
— from Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

He stopped, and went on more moderately, and with great help from him I gave him to understand that I wanted to hire a wagon to take me to Cracow.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

If her intuition guided her truly in this matter, it no less truly recognized a friend in Mat.
— from Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California by Angelo Hall

The Citizens soon experiencing the benefit of his invention, granted him, two years after, a similar lease for a second arch, by which his wealth considerably increased; and, with various improvements, the property continued in his family until this time, when the proprietor finding his profits lessened by the works at the New River, it was sold to one Richard Soams, Citizen and Goldsmith, for £36,000.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson