She immediately comes back into the room and makes for the door; but he goes along the balcony quickly and gets his back to the door before she reaches it.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

“Where are you going?” “Oh, fear not,” said Maximilian, stopping at a short distance, “I do not intend to render another man responsible for the rigorous fate reserved for me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Schools and universities were established in place of the old monasteries; Greek ideas and Greek culture came to England in the Renaissance, and man's spiritual freedom was proclaimed in the Reformation.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

So I tromped right along ’mongst ’em, en went up on de b’iler deck en ’way back aft to de ladies’ cabin guard, en sot down dah in de 234 same cheer
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called "idealists"—a word which has a different meaning in philosophy from that which it bears in ordinary life.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

His evident object, I have already said, is to reduce, as much as possible, the interval between Marie’s disappearance and the finding of the corpse.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And then, to the utter astonishment of every body but himself, he hauled into the room a monkey, full-dressed, and extravagantly -e; la mode!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Those who argue that matter is the reality and mind a mere property of protoplasm are called "materialists.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And has Wheeler been in the room alone? MARLOW.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

"Since thou hast gone into the room against my will," said he, "thou shalt go back into it against thine own.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I always say a young man thinks more of a young girl when her parents stay in the room a minute."
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

With a troubled face Nasmyth stood still in the rain another minute.
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss

She went gabble, gabble all the time that she was in the room, and it seemed to me that she stopped in the room as much as she possibly could.
— from The Crime and the Criminal by Richard Marsh

We were taken in the rear at more than one point, and Taviers being no longer able to assist us, Ramillies itself fell, after a prodigious fire and an obstinate resistance.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

The essential life of the Catholic Church is independent of her worldly condition; and though we are bound to believe that she is to remain amongst men until the end, we are yet not forbidden to hold that at times she may to human eyes seem almost to have ceased to be; that as in the past Christ was entombed, the deletum nomen Christianum was proclaimed, in the future also the heavens may grow dark, God’s countenance seemingly be withdrawn, and the voice of 0922.png despair cry out that all have bent the knee to Baal.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

She had ample opportunities to slip into the room and murder the woman who had supplanted her.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

When he was overtaken by an early death (1535), this motley band carried the corpse on their shoulders from Itri to Rome, and mingled with the general mourning for the open-handed Cardinal their medley of tongues and violent gesticulations.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Well, I been on the Plains an' in the Rockies all my life,
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

"Where are you going so late in this region?" asked Musette.
— from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger