Bent double, and his galoshes catching in the steps, Kapitonitch ran after her, trying to overtake her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thus spake great Isis, the queen of the gods, she who knows Ra and his true name.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“Yes, I was of Kiev,” Kritsky replied angrily, his face darkening.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This day (to see how things are ordered in the world), I had a command from the Earle of Sandwich, at Portsmouth, not to be forward with Mr. Cholmly and Sir J. Lawson about the Mole at Tangier, because that what I do therein will (because of his friendship to me known) redound against him, as if I had done it upon his score.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

" To this the Beggar listened with his knuckles resting against his hips, and when Robin had ended he cocked his head on one side and thrust his tongue into his cheek.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Of course a crowd collected outside the gates of the yard—a crowd, for no known reason, always hovers for a day or two near the scene of a sudden death in London—two or three reporters percolated somehow into the engine-shed, and one even got to Azuma-zi; but the scientific expert cleared them out again, being himself an amateur journalist.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At which time, William Gascoyne, chief justice, required the mayor and aldermen, for the citizens, to put them in the king’s grace; whereunto they answered, that they had not offended, but (according to the law) had done their best in stinting debate and maintaining of the peace; upon which answer the king remitted all his ire, and dismissed them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

When the Prior had ceased what he meant as a conciliatory harangue, his companion said briefly and emphatically, “I speak ever French, the language of King Richard and his nobles; but I understand English sufficiently to communicate with the natives of the country.” Cedric darted at the speaker one of those hasty and impatient glances, which comparisons between the two rival nations seldom failed to call forth; but, recollecting the duties of hospitality, he suppressed further show of resentment, and, motioning with his hand, caused his guests to assume two seats a little lower than his own, but placed close beside him, and gave a signal that the evening meal should be placed upon the board.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

When the barber (Velakathalavan) was sent for, he came without his knife (razor), as his wife had buried it.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“Well, you did do something,” Kenneth remarked, as he glanced at the long, lithe creature floating alongside.
— from A Year in a Yawl A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl by Russell Doubleday

General Jung Bahâdur, Kunwar, Rânâji, and his brothers are then in reality, the first orthodox Hindoos who have honored Europe with their presence.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

he kept repeating after her, laying stress upon the word—and then something began agitating him again strangely.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai

For her own part she felt that she could not face Keith Rickman and his celebrity.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

Grant known no more in history; the "Stars and Bars" would have been planted upon the banks of the Ohio; Kentucky redeemed and history differently written.
— from Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade by Lot D. Young

The knight responded, "After having lost all that made life dear to me I have no motive to avoid the dangers of the enterprise, and I will do as you request; but I forewarn you of the perils you will have to encounter.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Her grandmother's not too kind remarks about her had fallen on indifferent ears, and, fortunately, had had no effect except to make Mona feel a sort of mild scorn for anyone so constantly ailing as Lucy Carne was.
— from The Making of Mona by Mabel Quiller-Couch

“We want to see Miss Remsen,” Kee replied and his manner was suavity itself.
— from The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells