She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Two of the hunters Shannon & Labuish returned having killed three Elk. Ordered a party to go in quest of the meat early tomorrow morning and the hunters to return and continue the chase.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He turned round and caught her hand.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I kissed her tenderly, begged her to rise and come to the spring, where she could drink and
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

(←) n a student who has to repeat a course.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

My opinion is (and this is what gives this explanation its proper place here) that every error is an inference from the consequent to the reason , which indeed is valid when we know that the consequent has that reason and can have no other; but otherwise is not valid.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

So he turned round and cried, "Henry, the carriage is breaking."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The host furnished him with what he required, and Sancho brought it to Don Quixote, who, with his hand to his head, was bewailing the pain of the blow of the lamp, which had done him no more harm than raising a couple of rather large lumps, and what he fancied blood was only the sweat that flowed from him in his sufferings during the late storm.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then came another noisy group, elbowing each other in their haste to reach a cabaret, where they could drink away their week's wages.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

It is so easy of propagation, that any man who is capable of learning how to raise a crop of corn can learn how to plant, graft or bud, transplant, and prune an apple-tree,—and then eat the apples.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

The youngest produced his cur, and all wondered how the prince could hope to receive a crown for such a shabby present.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

He who can injure an innocent daughter need not trouble himself to respect a culpable mother.
— from The great Galeoto; Folly or saintliness two plays done from the verse of José Echegaray into English prose by Hannah Lynch by José Echegaray

He soon became so good a monk that if any one asked him the number of his brothers and sisters, he had to reflect and count them over before replying.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

[4] In fact, my main object has been one that compelled me to admit graver matter than is common in romance, but which I would fain hope may be saved from the charge of dulness by some national sympathy between author and reader; my object is attained, and attained only, if, in closing the last page of this work, the reader shall find that, in spite of the fictitious materials admitted, he has formed a clearer and more intimate acquaintance with a time, heroic though remote, and characters which ought to have a household interest to Englishmen, than the succinct accounts of the mere historian could possibly afford him.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Dora protested, “Mary ought to know how to ride a cow pony since she was born right here on the desert while I have always lived on the Hudson River until two weeks ago.”
— from The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton

The gentleman reflected that the more solemn and public the apology was, the more it would enhance his credit with the family and the world; he made known in haste to the members of the family, that on the following day they should assemble at his house to receive a common satisfaction.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

Men who, in the ordinary relations of life, would scruple to defraud their neighbors of a dollar, do not hesitate to rob a confiding woman of her chastity.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger