The singular calmness remained with him the rest of the evening and he slept a new reposeful sleep; but it was not with him very long.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[ 404 ] Some of our people, who went only with the view of staying a short time, but by some allurement or other exceeded the time appointed, at their return reported, either through merriment or superstition, that the spring had such a natural bewitching quality that whosoever drank of it could not possibly quit the nation during the tedious space of seven years.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I was surprised to find in him such a nice acquaintance with the metre in the learned languages; though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself, as I should have thought.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Pretty soon we detected a muffled and heavy sound, and next moment we guessed what it was.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

I had received in Harley Street a narrower notion of the place, and that, as I recalled it, made me think the proprietor still more of a gentleman, suggested that what I was to enjoy might be something beyond his promise.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

I then to the Exchequer, and there, among other things, spoke to Mr. Falconbridge about his girle I heard sing at Nonsuch, and took him and some other ‘Chequer men to the Sun Taverne, and there spent 2s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the latter case it was an honour spontaneously awarded, not plotted and contrived beforehand, and offered an additional proof, amongst many others, of the estimation in which—despite his partialities, prejudices, and irritabilities—the professor of literature was held by his pupils.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Keen and unscrupulous opponents have sought, and not unsuccessfully, to pierce him in this direction; for well they know, that if assailed, he will smite back.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

But as a man who had been matchless held 10 In cunning, over-reach't where least he thought, To salve his credit, and for very spight Still will be tempting him who foyls him still, And never cease, though to his shame the more;
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Nevertheless, we crossed over the river in the evening, at the same time the two ministers were returning, namely, Tessemaker who preached there on Sunday as we have stated, and Niewenhuisen who had administered the Lord's Supper there to-day.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

Each company has a captain who gives each of his soldiers a name that denotes action and can be demonstrated—beginning with the letter "A" such as appealingly, angrily, etc.
— from Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

This curly-headed little fellow is the only support of a mother and younger brothers and sisters; there is one who takes care of a paralyzed father, the only relative he has in the world, going home, after his hard work, to make life as pleasant as he can for him who can never do any more work; here is another whose little house is kept for him by a child-sister, who looks for his step at night with solicitude.
— from Harper's Young People, January 11, 1881 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Now every thought flowed in a new channel; he seemed a new being to himself.
— from Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart by Caroline Lee Hentz

Fan, then, his martial fire: And animate to flame the sparks Bequeath'd him by his sire: As nothing great is born in haste, Wise nature's time allow; His father's laurels may descend, And flourish on his brow.
— from The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young

Yes, he must; for how send a note to Amy?
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

And the man who is to do work for God and to get God to bless his work must not be content with acknowledging other people's sins, but must always say, 'We have sinned,' and not seldom say, 'I have sinned.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren