"Go along wi' you, then, wi' your drowned dog; I wouldn't own such a dog– I wouldn't," said Bob, getting louder, in a last effort to sustain his defiance.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

(For not one of us has bought a field or garden in your city or built a house or married or given in marriage among you, or fallen in love with any of your handsome youths, or coveted the wealth of Assyria, or awarded court patronage; 779 nor have we allowed any of those in office to exercise influence over us, or induced the populace to get up banquets or theatrical shows; nay rather we have procured for them such luxurious ease that, since they have respite from want, they have had leisure to compose their anapaests against the very author of their well-being.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"I should learn everything then," she said to herself, still walking quickly along the bridle road through the wood.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

] Note 99 ( return ) [ Off the coast of Sicily and South Italy, in the month of May, I have seen men fastened half way up a boat's mast with their feet resting on a crosspiece, just large enough to support them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The Equestrian order perceive the ridiculous mistake, and with loud laughter encore the song.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Scrooge's niece's sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Logan entered the service himself as colonel of a regiment and rapidly rose to the rank of major-general.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I have long been silent; long even to sickness have I desired to speak to you, and submit my soul, my life, my entire being to you.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tess really wished to walk uprightly, while her father did nothing of the kind; but she resembled him in being content with immediate and small achievements, and in having no mind for laborious effort towards such petty social advancement as could alone be effected by a family so heavily handicapped as the once powerful d'Urbervilles were now.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The fog had cleared away; day was dawning; and there was just light enough to show them the utter hopelessness of their position.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He had now the long sought but never before enjoyed absolute control of a literary gazette, and, with much friendly assistance, he maintained it long enough to show, that whatever his genius, he had not the kind or degree of talent necessary to such a position.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

Of course that implied that one accepted his marriage in a sort of way, but, after all, why not? Besides—here the world’s tongue just tended to approach the cheek—it would be a kindness to old Lady Ellington to smooth things over as much as possible, and that dear little thing, Gladys, whom everybody liked so much, would be so pleased to find that Madge was not hardly thought of.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

He paused long enough to steady his voice, pressing her hand to stay her from speaking.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

Thus if we have a curved steel wire large enough to sustain 1,000 lb. without breaking, a similar straight wire, such as those in this bridge, will hold up 1,100 lb., and 66 per cent.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various

Some who are not merely smarting, but writhing under the injuries inflicted by Free Trade, may think that Mr Disraeli has taken too dispassionate a view of the case, and that the line of conduct which he has announced, and which he declares himself determined to follow, is less energetic than suits the emergency of the present crisis.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

[8] We have been unable to ascertain the date when young Lamarck entered the seminary.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard