Yes.' With the look of one just awakened, he followed Riderhood into the Lock-house, where the latter produced from a cupboard some cold salt beef and half a loaf, some gin in a bottle, and some water in a jug.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It’s a wonder we were ever let out of Japan at all.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

"His intention is to extinguish the gas in the Rue du Petit-Carreau and all the adjoining streets, and to leave only one jet lighted in the Rue du Cadran.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

June had commenced; the weather was very warm, and Mr. T—— had sent for the loan of old Jenny to help him for a day with his potatoes.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It was well it was so, for now that there could not be any long lapse of time before we must part, Miss Evelyn became a very glutton for pleasure, and every art and position was made use of to stimulate and lengthen out our joys.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He was alone at the side of the balcony, looking out of jaded eyes at the culture of Dublin in the stalls and at the tawdry scenecloths and human dolls framed by the garish lamps of the stage.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

But I am sorry——" The word was like one of Jeeves's pick-me-ups.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But concerning this which was to be given by Christ it was predicted, "Out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem;"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The faces seen in a passing crowd bear each the record of life lived, of lives like ours of joys or disappointments, lives of great aims or no aims at all, of unwritten heroisms, of hidden tragedies bravely borne, lives sordid and mean or generous and bright.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

He is capable of virtue, and virtue has in him two principal forms, respect of others, and love of others, justice and charity.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

But he never had no show at no time, for the grizzly bear, as Jimmy Jocks had called him, lights on old Jimmy's back and tries to break it, and old Jimmy Jocks snaps his gums and claws the grass, panting and groaning awful.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

These sensations, and nothing else, make the material of the sensible universe which we see and know and live in,—they are the material out of which the shifting scenes in this wonderful panorama of sense-life are formed,—they are the exciting causes of all the various forms of our mental life, of our joy and sorrow, laughter and tears, hopes and despairings.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

We passed through in safety before darkness came on, and then proceeded more leisurely on our journey.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer