To find it was the task set him by an imperious and malignant universe, and he wandered through the endless corridors of his mind, opening all manner of lumber rooms and chambers stored with odds and ends of memories and knowledge as he vainly sought the answer.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Yet I should not wish to take the command of a ship to-morrow, running my chance of a crew, as most masters must, and know, and have my crew know, that I could not, under any circumstances, inflict even moderate chastisement.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Different as those two women were, Agafea Mihalovna and Katya, as his brother Nikolay had called her, and as Levin particularly liked to call her now, they were quite alike in this.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On meeting Anna Karenina, as he was Alexey Alexandrovitch’s enemy in the government, he tried, like a shrewd man and a man of the world, to be particularly cordial with her, the wife of his enemy.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In her lonesome cottage, by the seashore, thoughts visited her such as dared to enter no other dwelling in New England; shadowy guests, that would have been as perilous as demons to their entertainer, could they have been seen so much as knocking at her door.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In one case at least I shall not let the occasion slip for substantiating my contention: I bear the Germans a grudge for having made a mistake about Kant and his "backstairs philosophy," as I call it.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He was a while in Bergen in autumn; but went from thence eastward to Viken, where he settled in Tunsberg for his winter quarters (A.D. 1163), and collected in Viken all the taxes and revenues that belonged to Magnus as king; and he had many and very fine troops.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But, on the other hand, the ropes and myths and knots and hindrances; the thundering waves of the white world beyond beating us back; the scalding breakers of this inner world,—its currents and back eddies—its meanness and smallness—its sorrow and tragedy—its screaming farce!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

His conversation is the most agreeable kind, and he possesses a stock of information not inferior to that of any other man.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

But they worship, in addition, various minor deities, e.g. , Uligamma, Mallappa, Anthargattamma, Kencharāya, and have their house gods, who are worshipped either by a house or by an entire exogamous sept.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Finding them deaf to my entreaties, I offered them money, and Khalil Aga his musket, to bring him safe and sound to the river.
— from A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy by George Bethune English

Mr. Carlyle, and one or two rhetorical imitators, poured malediction on the many-headed populace, and with a rather pitiful impatience insisted that the only hope for men lay in their finding and obeying a strong man, a king, a hero, a dictator.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

But his cleverness led him to suspect what Madame Alpenny knew, and he watched her day and night until he wormed her secret out of her.
— from In Queer Street by Fergus Hume

Suddenly soldiers are heard outside, the conspirators resume their masks as Kotemkin and his men enter.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

He likewise brought with him a young girl whom he had married at Kancaba, as his fourth wife, and had given her parents three prime slaves for her.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park

Pack led them direct to that Arapile height still held by Marmont, and known as Hermanito.
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

There was a big hugging for Mother and Katherine and Henry who couldn’t go to the train because he had to go to school—and then [12] Jimsi and Daddy walked down the street to take the car for the railway station.
— from The Good Crow's Happy Shop by Patten Beard