She reproached herself for her share of the ill-feeling, and resolved to exonerate Amy as soon as possible; she also discovered what Amy had done about the things in the morning, and considered her a model of magnanimity.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She also discovered what Amy had done about the things in the morning, and considered her a model of magnanimity.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"Oh!" cried he, embracing me, and crossing himself and making all sorts of grimaces from intense delight.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mrs. Harris then said, "I have been walking round in the woods to look at the situation of your place, and as I turned round to come home, a tremendous black snake stuck up his head before me, and commenced hissing at me.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

But what are these trivial inconveniences, which amuse, more than they annoy, to “a man as calls himself a man,” and when he has such active, cheerful, untiring servants, ever ready to do all in their power to please him?
— from A Little Tour in Ireland by S. Reynolds (Samuel Reynolds) Hole

Say, that reminds me, a couple hours ago Mars projector had a scanner on one of the exploration parties caught out in a psychosonic storm.
— from Zero Data by Charles Saphro

The Duchess Padovani, wife of a former ambassador and minister, trusted him with the restoration of her much admired country house at Mousseaux-on-the-Loire, an ancient royal residence, long neglected, which he succeeded in restoring with a skill and ingenuity really amazing in an undistinguished scholar of the Beaux-Arts.
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

"Anno 1793" and "A Mother and Child" have attracted much favorable comment in Munich, where her star is in the ascendant, and greater excellence in her work is confidently prophesied.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

He doesn't have the down payment," because when we were trying to sell the man a car, he asked me how much money he needed to buy this car and I said, "That man needs around $200 or $300."
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Suddenly he began to move round me—in a very singular manner, making strange motions with his hands, and frightful contortions with his features, till I became alarmed, and asked him whether he had not lost his senses? Whereupon, ceasing his movements and contortions, he assured me that he had not, but had merely been seized with a slight dizziness, and then once more returned to the subject of the horse.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow