She was immediately up, and wanting to quit the table; but so many were also moving, that she could not get away; and Mr. Knightley thought he saw another collection of letters anxiously pushed towards her, and resolutely swept away by her unexamined.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Marianne's ideas were still, at intervals, fixed incoherently on her mother, and whenever she mentioned her name, it gave a pang to the heart of poor Elinor, who, reproaching herself for having trifled with so many days of illness, and wretched for some immediate relief, fancied that all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long, and pictured to herself her suffering mother arriving too late to see this darling child, or to see her rational.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

It very often happened that in a moment of irritation husband and wife would have a dispute, but long afterwards Pierre to his surprise and delight would find in his wife’s ideas and actions the very thought against which she had argued, but divested of everything superfluous that in the excitement of the dispute he had added when expressing his opinion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She looked away, pleased that he should speak thus, longing to be equal to this feeling written upon her countenance.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The mother being willing to appoint this youth her heir, upon condition that he should be released from his father’s authority, the latter discharged him accordingly; but shortly after, as was believed, murdered him, charging him with a design upon his life, and pretending that he had, from consciousness of his guilt, drank the poison he had prepared for his father.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Then too he censures the things and modes of life and persons that he knows his victim dislikes, while he praises those he fancies immoderately, overdoing it indeed 368 with his show of surprise and excessive admiration, making him more and more convinced that his likes and dislikes are the fruits of judgement and not of caprice.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

She ran across the street, turned down a side street to the left, and, passing three houses, turned into a yard on the right.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natásha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He was late, and Pearson told him that the ladies were dressing for dinner.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

Shall I speak like a poet?— thrice hath the horned moon —— Alb.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston

It remains to relate the fate of Katalewe, who has now lost all power to harm.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

Similar adaptations of the antique model, "mutato nomine," frequently occur among the works of the artists of the middle ages; and there is at least a possibility that, had the face been left us, we might have traced some attempt at a portrait of the Norman Duke.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

The best seems to have been Perry’s, advertised as follows:—“This is to give notice to all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, that Mr. Perry’s Grand Collection of Living Wild Beasts is come to the White Horse Inn, Fleet Street, consisting of a large he-lion, a he-tiger, a leopard, a panther, two hyenas, a civet cat, a jackall, or lion’s provider, and several other rarities too tedious to mention.
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

It is a familiar rule that a person who transacts business with a partnership in the partnership name may hold all the members liable as partners, though he did not know all their names.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

And Laura saw him, and at first was glad, Because the Turks so much admire philogyny, Although the usage of their wives is sad, 'Tis said they use no better than a dog any Poor woman, whom they purchase like a pad; They have a number though they ne'er exhibits 'em, Four wives by law and concubines 'ad libitum."
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

The Pacific Fur Company, established by John Jacob Astor at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811, with its little fort, exercised a greater authority in the protection of life and property than had existed before.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (Vol. 1, No. 1) by Oregon Historical Society

Just ran to the house for blankets; Evelyn, at Doctor Churchill's direction, followed him to prepare a steaming hot drink for Lucy; and presently they had her in her bed, warm and dry, although much exhausted by her experience in the waters of the river, which were cold even on a June night.
— from The Second Violin by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond