They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Never has the mist closed in on us so heavily as since the time your voice resounded in Athens, the city we once so dearly loved.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She now found that she had erred in relying on Elinor's representation of herself; and justly concluded that every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

he shouted, and in one ungrammatical sentence, as long as the ribbons that conjurers
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The indirect object usually stands before the direct object.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Doubtless they chose farming because that life is private and secluded from irruptions of undesirable strangers—like the pilot-house hermitage.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Persons of delicate fibers and a weak constitution of body complain that in looking on the sores and ulcers which are exposed by beggars in the streets they are apt to feel an itching or uneasy sensation in the corresponding part of their own bodies.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The rest of mankind--the "asses," as Abdullah called them--were incapable of understanding such doctrines.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

'As you believe that I am not insensible or ungrateful, so hear my answer.'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In almost all cases they broke out among troops, whether in Russia, in India, in Africa, or in our United States.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The late Episcopal bishop of Vermont, writes: "Dancing is chargeable with waste of time, interruption of useful study, the indulgence of personal vanity and display, and the premature incitement of the passions.
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

He appears to make much of the obvious impropriety of using such terms as happened , in speaking of certain events.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

In the vast majority of households the maid is a maid, a young woman of the lower classes, doing this work because she can do no other, and doing it only until she marries.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In order under such grave circumstances to unite Churchmen together, and to make a front against the coming danger, he had in 1832 commenced the British Magazine, and in the same year he came to Oxford in the summer term, in order to beat up for writers for his publication; on that occasion I became known to him through Mr. Palmer.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

That restless emigrant class, whose origin, as a class, lay in the community of its own uncertain schemes of fortune; the West, with her splendid, lavish promises, called them from their thriftless farms in the South and their gray cabins in New England.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

I met Merritt that evening in our usual saloon, and underneath a pair of black eyes and a battered-up phiz I could see that he was wearing a look of deep disgust.
— from Side Show Studies by Francis Metcalfe

Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for foreign and old issues of United States stamps.
— from Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Polygamy, influence of, upon sexual selection; superinduced by domestication; supposed increase of female births by.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin