In the night he had debated whether he should not get on the coach, not for Riverston, but for London, leaving a note to Lydgate which would give a makeshift reason for his retreat.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

With the sort of paper described for country houses, or for young people, or those living in studios or bungalows, gay sealing wax may be quite alluring, especially if it can be persuaded to pour smoothly like liquid, and not to look like a streaked and broken off slice of dough.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

That obligation discharged, she would have but a thousand dollars of Mrs. Peniston's legacy left, and nothing to live on but her own small income, which was considerably less than Gerty Farish's wretched pittance; but this consideration gave way to the imperative claim of her wounded pride.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

“He looked like a ninny, that creature!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

yes I will with some blancmange with black currant jam like long ago not those 2 lb pots of mixed plum and apple from the London and Newcastle Williams and Woods goes twice as far only for the bones I hate those eels cod yes
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Now Lycian lots, and now the Delian god, Now Hermes is employ’d from Jove’s abode, To warn him hence; as if the peaceful state Of heav’nly pow’rs were touch’d with human fate!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The dog is let loose at night to prevent him from endeavoring to communicate with her.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the science of language, languages are not treated as a means; language itself becomes the sole object of scientific inquiry.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

"I've occasion," he said, "to go across to the Cathedral, Mr. Lake, and I think I made you a promise when I did so next I would give you the opportunity to see what it looks like at night time.
— from A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

The two borax lakes lie also near the shore of Clear Lake; the largest one, which is not now worked, has an area of about three hundred acres.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

A very lawful, laudable and necessary transaction, founded upon moral equity, and upon the fundamental constitutions of that government, and suitable to the constant practice of their predecessors, in their covenanting with Saul and David.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

My pal Jarsper knows, and my pal Jarsper sent me here to give you the office to lay low and not to venture out to-night."
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

"You have brought me nearly all the happiness I have ever known; for when I was a boy and every bone ached with the hard work I had to do—the thought that Jerrie was waiting for me at home, that her face would greet me at the window, or in the door, made the labor light; and now that I am a man—" He paused a moment, and Jerrie's head drooped a little, for his voice was very low and soft, and she waited with a beating heart for him to go on.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

The cabbages he left lying about, not thinking it was worth while for such a rich man to trouble about them.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang