This is not an account of their lives, but an endeavour to show why Englishmen must always have a living interest in the Spectator , their joint production.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I suppose," Mr. Adair hesitated a little, "I suppose she will marry?"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I do not think they mean any harm: at least, I can look at this obliquity with indifference in my own particular case.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

After that the man went on cutting the tree, and at last made a hole and looked in, and he found that there was no honey in the nest.
— from Black Tales for White Children by Nancy Yulee (Neff) Stigand

The circular space within this enclosure measures about half a league in circumference; an opening of about two hundred paces in width is left for entrance.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

At Malta, accordingly, he arrived late in December, after being nearly shipwrecked in a Levanter, and was put ashore through a heavy sea in the brig’s long boat, narrowly escaping being carried all the way to America.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

And men are hurrying along, life in hand, breathless and bootless, over the highways and byways to the Great Mogul's temple, where there is no spiritual Divinity to revere.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

“And why do you not wish to appear in the matter?” asked he at last, in a suspicious tone of voice.
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

“You know that it is bad form to take one’s leave without saying ‘adieu,’ and believe me,” and he again laughed, “I thank you for your lavish reception in honor of the fake lord.” “Officer, away with them,” stormed Mr. Harris.
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

and I were saying about the letter rho accent, which was held to be expressive of motion and hardness, as lambda is of smoothness;—and this you will admit to be their natural meaning.
— from Cratylus by Plato