Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company have courteously permitted the reprinting of Miss Keller's letter to Dr. Holmes, which appeared in "Over the Teacups," and one of Whittier's letters to Miss Keller.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Then I thought of my money, and could have called her names, had I dared:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Thus to have said, As you were fore-advis'd, had touch'd his spirit And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd Either his gracious promise, which you might, As cause had call'd you up, have held him to; Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature, Which easily endures not article Tying him to aught.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But when we met again in the morning, a change had come over her—a change that told me all.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Agrafena Alexandrovna, our monk's really in love with you, you've made a conquest!” he cried, with a coarse laugh.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Many American cities have changed their characters entirely during the past 15 years by reason of Jewish speculation in residence property, and it is a fact established in the larger eastern cities that the recent exorbitant and extortionate rise in rents was largely a matter of the Jewish landlord.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

With this whimsical equipage, he had, however, something elegant in his manners and conversation; his countenance was expressive and agreeable, and he spoke with facility if not with modesty; in short, everything about him bore the mark of a young debauchee, who did not crave assistance like a beggar, but as a thoughtless madcap.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Naturally mild and courteous, he combined the meekness of the Christian with the authority of the Judge.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Mr. Arlington could have come out with the other candidates and tried for a place on the team; but he seemed to think he would be taken on anyhow, for some reason or other.”
— from Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled by Burt L. Standish

They at once made Eric take a part in some very distant reminiscences of Macbeth, and corked his cheeks with whiskers and mustachios to make him resemble Banquo, his costume being completed by a girdle round his night-shirt, consisting of a very fine crimson silk handkerchief, richly broidered with gold, which had been brought to him from India, and which at first, in the innocence of his heart, he used to wear on Sundays, until it acquired the soubriquet of “the Dragon.”
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The mists and clouds had cleared away, and left the sky all bright and blue.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

The women pelted him with mud and called him “Coward!” as he set off for the Prussian headquarters.
— from The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world by Edward Gilliat

His molds and crucibles he carefully brought from the summit of the terrace, disposing them as conveniently as his crude conditions permitted.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

Once more apparently cured he came out, but though he made one or two voyages his faculties remained permanently clouded.
— from Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris by Orlo Williams

And then, making a cigarette, he climbed to his seat.
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

When the judge pronounced sentence, the convicted man broke down completely and admitted his guilt, but pleaded in extenuation of his crime that high officials of Breathitt County, enemies of Marcum and Cockrell, had coerced him into becoming a witness for the defense and had drilled him for hours so he would make no blunders in the prepared testimony.
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

On the other hand, the New York agents, realizing that higher freight rates meant a correspondingly higher commission for them on the charter, held off until the Narcissus had almost finished discharging at Hoboken before they closed with a fine old New York importing and exporting house for a cargo of soft coal from Norfolk, Virginia, to Manila, or Batavia.
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne