You’d never have believed a pretty young lady like that could have made herself into such a ruffian.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and belaboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

" "I would fain have it set at rest on the point I last spoke of, Dorothea.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The features that might express them severally must be absorbed and mastered, hidden like a sword in its scabbard, and reduced to a general dignity or grace.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Splints can be made of anything that is stiff and rigid.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Didn't he owe us immense sums, all round?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Nay, rather, to use it in studying at Rome is really to invest it in the best possible manner; for, merely judging the result as a Wall Street speculator would judge it, by the actual return in dollars and cents, United States currency, your pictures will bring you in tenfold in the end of what you spend in preparing to paint them.
— from Babylon, Volume 2 by Grant Allen

This being covered with a glutinous matter or saliva, the ants adhere to it in great numbers: these it swallows alive, repeating the operation till no more are to be caught.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

"No, he will not die immediately," said Anstice reassuringly.
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes

In his private life, which was most exemplary, I found Macrossan—although it was said he was otherwise—to be most tolerant to all who might differ from him in social and religious matters.
— from Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869 by W. H. (William Henry) Corfield

When I saw a Renaissance palace I knew it was a public bath house.
— from Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Simeon Strunsky

Labor force: 689,000 economically active Labor force - by occupation: 86% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 35% of the active male wage earners work in South Africa Unemployment rate: substantial unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half of the labor force (1999 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"It seems a rotten thing to have to tell you, but the French are going to shoot me for a spy.
— from With Haig on the Somme by D. H. Parry

Here is a series that gives full details of radio work both in sending and receiving—how large and small sets can be made and operated, and with this real information there are the stories of the radio boys and their adventures.
— from The Rover Boys Down East; or, The Struggle for the Stanhope Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer

References to other situations involving borders or frontiers may also be included, such as resource disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues; however, inclusion does not necessarily constitute official acceptance or recognition by the US Government.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency