Through the door immediately entered, in what seemed to him an endless procession, first Mrs. Fisher, very stately in her evening lace shawl and brooch, who when she saw him at once relaxed into smiles and benignity, only to stiffen, however, when she caught sight of the stranger; then Mr. Wilkins, cleaner and neater and more carefully dressed and brushed than any man on earth; and then, tying something hurriedly as she came, Mrs. Wilkins; and then nobody.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Perhaps his face had never before gathered so much concentrated disgust as when he turned to Mrs. Cadwallader and repeated, "Casaubon?" "Even so.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

George, with two of his obsequious ministers, Count Diodorus, and Dracontius, master of the mint were ignominiously dragged in chains to the public prison.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Concerning the making of the Mole, Mr. Cholmely did also discourse very well, having had some experience in it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Ang musika makabúgaw sa kaláay, Music can drive away boredom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The cherry orchard is sold, we’ve got it no longer, it’s true, true, but don’t cry mother, you’ve still got your life before you, you’ve still your beautiful pure soul... Come with me, come, dear, away from here, come!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

One would say, it is what any genuine man could do; and would do.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Such methods depended primarily upon the enormously significant discovery that a man could drag a heavier weight than he could carry, and what applied to a man also applied to a beast.
— from Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution by Ralph Straus

At any rate, it comes more suddenly, and must be dealt with more immediately, than most comparable difficulties; and the judgment, the nerve, and the vigour needful to deal with it are plainly rare and great.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

The constitutional party in the Legislative Assembly, at first dominant, became subordinate to the more violent but more able Girondists , with their extreme wing of Jacobins under Robespierre, and Cordeliers under Danton, Marat, Camille Desmoulins, and Fabre d’Eglantine.
— from Fragonard by Haldane MacFall

Mr. Cleland did an equally interesting thing when he selected rules to give decorative quality to this wine list, supplementing characteristically drawn head- and tail-pieces.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

Then once more came Denis and his pipes.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

And so it is hard to be good: for surely hard it is in each instance to find the mean, just as to find the mean point or centre of a circle is not what any man can do, but only he who knows how: just so to be angry, to give money, and be expensive, is what any man can do, and easy: but to do these to the right person, in due proportion, at the right time, with a right object, and in the right manner, this is not as before what any man can do, nor is it easy; and for this cause goodness is rare, and praiseworthy, and noble.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

So we to sleep again till 8 o'clock, and then I up in some ease to the office, where we had a full board, where we examined Cocke's second account, when Mr. Turner had drawn a bill directly to be paid the balance thereof, as Mr. Cocke demanded, and Sir J. Minnes did boldly assert the truth of it, and that he had examined it, when there is no such thing, but many vouchers, upon examination, missing, and we saw reason to strike off several of his demands, and to bring down his 5 per cent.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 by Samuel Pepys

In my childish delight and practical religion, I went down on my knees and thanked God for sending it to me, and I saw myself earning heaps of golden guineas, and becoming quite a support of the household.
— from Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant

He hardly got placed when three more came down and got into the water up-stream farther toward the bend.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland