She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

When he came to try the things on and we squeezed ourselves into the tight trousers and jackets adorned with basting threads, mother always frowned contemptuously and expressed her surprise: “Goodness knows what the fashions are coming to nowadays!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

W HEN Dr. Slop entered the back parlour, where my father and my uncle Toby were discoursing upon the nature of women,——it was hard to determine whether Dr. Slop ’s figure, or Dr. Slop ’s presence, occasioned more surprize to them; for as the accident happened so near the house, as not to make it worth while for Obadiah to remount him,—— Obadiah had led him in as he was, unwiped, unappointed, unannealed, with all his stains and blotches on him.—He stood like Hamlet ’s ghost, motionless and speechless, for a full minute and a half at the parlour-door ( Obadiah still holding his hand) with all the 188 majesty of mud.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Now Ptolemy, although he had heard of the change that was made in the people of Ptolemais, yet did he still go on with his voyage, and came to the country called Sycamine, and there set his army on shore.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Swipdag, now that he had slain Gram, was enriched with the realms of Denmark and Sweden; and because of the frequent importunities of his wife he brought back from banishment her brother Guthorm, upon his promising tribute, and made him ruler of the Danes.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Betty, who was the occasion of all this hurry, had some good qualities.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

The Duke had told me: he said: 'Go and see how cleverly she's arranged her drawing-room.'
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

We found him sitting glumly on his stool at the case in the back room, clicking the types, with his hat over his eyes and the smile rubbed off his face.
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

And it was ever the same throughout his life: in God he sought God.
— from On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Send me!" 6:9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.' 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Cows and horses stood gazing at them from warm paddocks, where the rich, black mud glistened, melted by the sun; chickens scratched and clucked in the barnyards or flew frantically across the road, sometimes within an ace of destruction.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

Baba-Yaga put drink on the table and various meats; she fed him, she gave him to drink, and put him to rest.
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin

Then calling one of his aids, he said, "Go to major ——, and desire him to send me Mr. Cross's sword immediately."
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

The places it chiefly desires to grow in are in cold hills, stiff ground, and in the barren and most expos’d parts of woods.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

He showed great anxiety to effect that object, but to no purpose; the governor suspected some stratagem, and politely dismissed his visiter with the compliment of a good dinner at his own table.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

At first Cameron rubbed his eyes as if his Scotch vision had somehow gone agley; but, gradually, whatever incongruity had manifested at first died away.
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser

16:004:018 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 16: Nehemiah by Anonymous