"What are you laughing about?" reiterated Sir Percival.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Germany likes a roast similar to the French type; while Scandinavia prefers the high Italian roast.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"Has it?" persisted Lotty, as Rose said nothing.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I had been humiliated, so I wanted to humiliate; I had been treated like a rag, so I wanted to show my power....
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Gosh, I'm not doing so bad; hittin' 'em up like a regular stage dancer!”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I.]—We suffer ourselves to lean and rely so strongly upon the arm of another, that we destroy our own strength and vigour.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He had the Wall street slang at his tongue’s end; he always talked like a capitalist, and entered with enthusiasm into all the land and railway schemes with which the air was thick.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The wampum belt was explained, according to Stanley’s account, by Major George Lowrey ( Agiʻlĭ , “Rising”), second chief of the Nation, who thus recited the tradition of its coming from the Seneca [i. e. Iroquois].
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

—As we come to the history of Spanish occupation and conquest of the Philippines, we find many interesting letters and reports sent by both soldiers and priests to the king, or to persons in Spain.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

she cried, trotting after him like a pet lamb, and really seriously alarmed at last, “you’ll kill me!
— from Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School by Thomas Hardy

Say, Kessy, what faller——" An oath cracked in the darkness like a rifle shot.
— from Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

Then, looking up, have I seen in the sky a head amidst circling stars, of which the midmost and the brightest lent a ray sympathetic and attent.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He knew that even if he should succeed in getting into the camp, it might be impossible to locate and reach Spotted Deer.
— from Spotted Deer by Elmer Russell Gregor

Skipping to 5: “To insure from the beginning a good understanding between Reich Youth Leadership and Reich SS leadership, a liaison officer will be ordered from the Reich Youth Leadership to the SS Main Office starting 1 October 1938.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

The isvostchik looked angrily round, shook his head, and, accompanied by the convoy soldier, drove back to the police station.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To an onlooker it would have appeared like a real stampede for the boats.
— from Dave Darrin and the German Submarines Or, Making a Clean-up of the Hun Sea Monsters by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Filled by a radiant hope that I had shaken off both my companions, I was advancing in the line of the hoof-tracks, when once more I heard behind me on the wind cries as of a storm-driven sea-gull, and the grey cob came up under my stirrup, like a runaway steam pinnace laying itself beside a man-o'-war.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville