It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is, however, another way of interpreting ‘ought’ as connoting penalties, which is somewhat less easy to meet by a crucial psychological experiment.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

They must sit at work there, their pavilion spread on very Chaos; between two hostile worlds, the Upper Court-world, the Nether Sansculottic one; and, beaten on by both, toil painfully, perilously,—doing, in sad literal earnest, 'the impossible.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“I stayed long enough to make certain that the house was absolutely empty.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I began to think that there was nothing doing, that he’d just come on the trip for his health, but I remembered that he hadn’t changed for dinner, though it was by way of being a slap-up hotel, so it seemed likely enough that he’d be going out on his real business afterwards.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

There was, it seemed, little else that could be done; bleeding was judged for the once unexpeditious.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

It seemed last evening that I suffered more from my disappointment than was reasonable.
— from Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal by Mary Lowell Putnam

The people of the Scud averred that never before had they been out in such a tempest, which was true; for, possessing a perfect knowledge of all the rivers and headlands and havens, Jasper would have carried the cutter in shore long ere this, and placed her in safety in some secure anchorage.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

His sleeping chamber is scarcely large enough to contain a bed and a few chairs.
— from Napoleon's Appeal to the British Nation, on His Treatment at Saint Helena by Montholon, Charles-Tristan, comte de

I suppose," lightly, "even the immaculate Maurice can make his?" "No doubt," says Margaret, in a low tone.
— from The Hoyden by Duchess

'I should like extremely to have an hour's sitting with you, and, if I had the chance, I would promise to try not to look gloomy.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

On the Italian side, looking east, there was a certain wild lifting of the clouds, above the lower course of the stream descending from the Gondo ravine; upon the distant meadows and mountain slopes that marked the opening of the Tosa valley, storm-lights came and went, like phantom deer chased by the storm-clouds; beside him the swollen river thundered past, seeking a thirsty Italy; and behind, over the famous Gondo cleft, lay darkness, and a pelting tumult of rain.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

that, at the end of the private devotions, which are carried on in the vestry, and which are of course inaudible to the Congregation, the final xxi “Amen” is shouted , loud enough to be heard all through the Church.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll