The ostensible object of the journey was to see her only son, who was just finishing his studies at a Petersburg lyceum.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The picnic is a success altogether,” he said, after a pause.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He strode across, and pump-handled Tommy’s hand with what seemed to the latter quite unnecessary vigour.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Dr. Douglas Hyde has sent to me the following evidence:—‘I have a poem, consisting of nearly one hundred stanzas, about a pig who ate an Irish manuscript, and who by eating it recovered human speech for twenty-four hours and gave his master an account of his previous embodiments.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Why harboured such an aspiration proud, Born from another's womb and not from mine?
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

"By the way, Dorian," he said after a pause, "'what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose—how does the quotation run?—his own soul'?" The music jarred, and Dorian Gray started and stared at his friend.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Page 328 , “Cryxippus” changed to “Crypsippus” (Carneades called him Crypsippus) Page 330 , “Aristocrea” changed to “Aristocreon” (the sons of his sister, Aristocreon and Philocrates) Page 330 , “heirophant” changed to “hierophant” (the hierophant reveals them)
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But the small servant immediately pausing in her talk, he subsided again, and pleading a momentary forgetfulness of their compact, entreated her to proceed.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Mr. Browning often treats his subject as a pure thinker might, but he has always conceived it as a poet; he has always seen in one flash, everything, whether moral or physical, visible or invisible, which the given situation could contain.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

The Arab and Chinese ships met, he says, at a port called Killat, half-way between Arabia and China, where they transhipped their 137 cargoes.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

But he is very much inclined to doubt if ever I really was so much honoured; at present we hear scarcely anything about politics; this saves a great deal of trouble, for we all stick to our former opinions rather more obstinately than before, and can give rather fewer reasons for doing so.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

The summer scenery of Southampton, with its distant view of the Isle of Wight, was believed to have inspired the hymnist sitting at a parlor window and gazing across the river Itchen, to write the stanza— Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand drest in living green; So to the Jews old Canaan stood While Jordan rolled between.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

As he speaks an ashy pallor spreads over the king’s face, and out of his bloodless lips the words come thickly: “So, so, at Toledo!”
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

It had been, in fact, one of the first acts of her reign to forward to Rome a respectful embassy which conveyed to the sovereign pontiff her recognition of the supremacy of the holy see, and a petition that he would be pleased to invest with the character of his legate for England Cardinal Pole,—that earnest champion of her own legitimacy and the church's unity, who had been for so many years the object of her father's bitterest animosity.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

“I am delighted to give it to you, dear,” he said affectionately, and pinned the velvet ribbon round her neck with it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I followed her with my eyes, and saw her stop at a public-house; but she hesitated at the door, and did not enter.
— from Jessie Trim by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Day after day the phantom Frenchman hovered somewhere about, afraid perhaps to try conclusions with that rakish, spiteful-looking British frigate, or perhaps but biding her chance.
— from As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables