The Boar could not put me into my usual bedroom, which was engaged (probably by some one who had expectations), and could only assign me a very indifferent chamber among the pigeons and post-chaises up the yard.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

It is said that he saw Munychia, and viewed it carefully for some time in silence.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

I should, my dear Pamela, said he, make a very ill compliment to my vanity, if I did not believe you; though, at the same time, justice calls upon me to say, that it is, some things considered, beyond my merit.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It would appear as if the lacrymal glands required some practice in the individual before they are easily excited into action, in somewhat the same manner as various inherited consensual movements and tastes require some exercise before they are fixed and perfected.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

To an expression of regret that resort had not sooner been had to medical aid, Vasili Ivanitch could add no more than an intimation that no hope was left: nor was he wrong, seeing that even before the peasant succeeded in conveying his brother back to the village, the sick man had breathed his last.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

General McLeary again volunteered in Captain John Brownfield's company, in General Davidson's brigade, watching the movements of Lord Cornwallis in his pursuit of General Morgan, encumbered with five hundred prisoners on his way to a place of safety in Virginia.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

[72] See "Malay Archipelago," vol. ii. chap.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Lady Beatty made a very intelligent criticism of [235] the Admiral’s portrait, and as the result of her suggestions certain alterations were made.
— from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud

Whatever is repugnant to modesty and virtue is considered, in ethical science, by a supposition very favorable to humanity, as impossible; and this amiable persuasion should be much more strongly entertained where the transgression wars with nature as well as virtue.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

There is nothing that unmistakably goes back to the lifetime of Columbus except the figure of St. Christopher, which makes a vignette in colors on the mappemonde, which was drawn in 1500, by one of Columbus's pilots, Juan de la Cosa, and is now preserved in Madrid.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

The chief changes in it are the omission of a yachting visit to Cowes, which he made annually from 1889 to 1895, and, since 1908, the habit of making an annual summer stay at his Corfu castle, "Achilleion," instead of touring in the Mediterranean and visiting Italian cities.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

"It's a common remark or sayin' that when you drop yore dishrag it means a visitor is comin'—or, as some say, it means bad luck.
— from Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

On Rancocus Island, however, Bigelow had made a very ingenious canal, that was of vast service in floating logs to the mill.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

'Allow me, mademoiselle—put your hand on me— ainsi —vile I change dis pretty foot.'
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.