“Kindly let this cart pass.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whether Susannah, by taking her hand too suddenly from off the corporal's shoulder (by the whisking about of her passions)—broke a little the chain of his reflexions— Or whether the corporal began to be suspicious, he had got into the doctor's quarters, and was talking more like the chaplain than himself— Or whether...Or whether—for in all such cases a man of invention and parts may with pleasure fill a couple of pages with suppositions—which of all these was the cause, let the curious physiologist, or the curious any body determine—'tis certain, at least, the corporal went on thus with his harangue.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared they had never heard from any lips that could profit them.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The different lines of proof which I have taken up establish conclusively the proposition that all the motor impulses which leave the cortex pass out , in healthy animals, from the convolutions about the fissure of Rolando .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It is true that Nicolas knows more than a hundred Latin tags, can put a skeleton together and on occasion make a preparation, can make the students laugh with a long learned quotation, but the simple theory of the circulation of the blood is as dark to him now as it was twenty years ago.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Let them agree in the ordering of their duties as well as in their method, let the child pass from one to the other.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then her cheeks began to pale, till they were tinged like the creamy plumes of the white crepe myrtle that grew in the ruin.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Like the contemporary philosophers, the lawyers of the age of the Antonines disclaimed the authority of a master, and adopted from every system the most probable doctrines.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There is no telling what might have happened, now, but luckily the concern passed out of Aunt Polly’s face and she came to Tom’s relief without knowing it.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I have black hair, like the common people, but my hair is not coarse, like a mule's tail.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

I limped to the theater and have now let the crowd precede me as you see,” explained the other, and then noticing a group emerging from the fog, he exclaimed: “Ah!
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

This scheme appearing practicable, a party was sent to our encampment of the 24th and 25th last to collect pitch amongst the small pines that grew there to pay over the seams of the canoe.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

I mentioned in my first lecture the conciliatory policy which the Ptolemies had pursued toward the Jews.
— from Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Charles Kingsley

Your Majesty states that Viscount Palmerston in his letter to Count Persigny endeavoured to persuade the Emperor of the French to break his word to the Emperor of Austria, but Viscount Palmerston must beg very respectfully but entirely to deny that accusation....
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Things went much faster in the New Stone Age, or neolithic period, when he was learning to cultivate plants and make pottery and polish stone tools.
— from Early Man in the New World by Joseph A. Hester

It was now dark, or nearly so, and leaving the confidential porter, as usual, to shut up the house, I went up to the sitting-room with the expectation of seeing Miss Trevannion, and bidding her farewell.
— from The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago by Frederick Marryat

I have met with excellent results by allowing my pupils to leave this correct position, and then resume it again, at first standing still, then at other gaits progressively.
— from Hand-book for Horsewomen by H. L. de (Henry L. de) Bussigny

The Princesse de Conti, mother of the Prince de Conti, who is rather virtuous than otherwise, is nevertheless a little simpleton, and is something like the Comtesse Pimbeche Orbeche, for she is always wishing to be engaged in lawsuits against her mother; who, on her part, has used all possible means, but without success, to be reconciled to her.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'