His horse was standing at the door when Mrs. Cadwallader drove up, and he immediately appeared there himself, whip in hand.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This they most commonly do, unless some great occasion, which falls out but very seldom, should oblige them to call for it all.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

“One could do a man no graver injury than to call him a dancer,” says Cicero, Pro Murena, and adds: “a man cannot dance unless he is drunk or insane.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

His assessment, therefore, must, in most cases, depend upon the good or bad humour of his assessors, and must, therefore, be altogether arbitrary and uncertain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Meanwhile, Christine Daae uttered a deep sigh, which was answered by a groan.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Thence to the office and, after writing letters, home, to draw-over anew my will, which I had bound myself by oath to dispatch by to-morrow night; the town growing so unhealthy, that a man cannot depend upon living two days to an end.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Les premières années, c'était le plus souvent pour communiquer avec mes collègues dans un secteur géographique très limité.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“I mean that M. de Monte Cristo, digging underneath these trees, found neither skeleton nor chest, because neither of them was there!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But we poor humble people are privileged not only to choose a wife who loves us, and whom we love, but we may, can, and do take such a one, because we are neither noble, nor highborn, nor rich, but, on the contrary, lowly, humble, and poor; we therefore need no wealthy wife, for our riches being in our heads, die with us, and these no man can deprive us of unless he cut them off, in which case we need nothing more.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And now that cur, Aleksasha, must come disturbing us."
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

A shell might crash down upon them through the frail structure at will....
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

There, upon the sidewalk beneath the shade of the honey-locust trees in summer, by the fireplace in winter, he gave many charming dissertations upon politics, fishing, religion, when-I-was-a-boy, and medicine.
— from The Golden Road by Frank Waller Allen

16 No. 358846 Make: Columbus D U + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 D D 0 - 1 + 7 + 3 P U +10 +10 +14 + 7 11 4 Investigation showed the hairspring to be pinned nearly correct, true level and in circle; balance true; regulator pins closed and motion satisfactory.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein

Sindhia, for his part, entered into negotiations with the famous usurper of Mysore, Tippu Sultan, who was the hereditary opponent of the British, and who soon after lost his kingdom and his life before the Mahrattas could decide upon an open espousal of his cause.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene

may disable the technology protection measure concerned, during use by an adult, to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purpose."
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Various forms and sizes of triangles, singly or in combination, constitute one of the most constant devices used by the cliff-dwellers of the Mesa Verde in the decoration of their pottery.
— from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes

While they were munching their evening meal—of durions, as the dinner had been—the Malay commenced discoursing upon eggs, which set them all thinking about them.
— from The Castaways by Mayne Reid