] Want my cab round in twenty minutes.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Mr. Collins returned into Hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted by the Gardiners and Jane; but as he took up his abode with the Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs. Bennet.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A few minutes later Mademoiselle Bourienne came into Princess Mary’s room smiling and making cheerful remarks in her agreeable voice.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The coach lumbered on again, with heavier wreaths of mist closing round it as it began the descent.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[ The wars of Italy are most clearly represented in the xiiith vol.
— 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

You should not attempt to reach her.' "'There is nothing so high that a man cannot reach, if he will,' answered Rudy; for he is a brave youth.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“My cousin,” replied I, “it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He came to be the most cruel renegade I ever saw: his name was Hassan Aga, and he grew very rich and became king of Algiers.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I understand all that very well, my dear boy,” the doctor interposed, “but you know I am a family man, my children run in here, ladies come in.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I shall be satisfied with showing that none of these forms can be employed or imitated in philosophy in the sense in which they are understood by mathematicians; and that the geometrician, if he employs his method in philosophy, will succeed only in building card-castles, while the employment of the philosophical method in mathematics can result in nothing but mere verbiage.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Three or four more correspondents received instructions of the same character, and in addition there was a rain of telegrams for Jimmy Grayson himself and for his party associates.
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

But before Mudjikewis could renew it, the monster disgorged all the water he had drank, with a force which sent the canoe with great velocity to the opposite shore.
— from Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. by Mark Twain

I have two, or, I think, three stabs on my left arm; they are not very deep, as I twisted my cloak round it when I was attacked.
— from In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

His eyes were very blue, and the lids were puffed and heavy, whilst the mouth, Mr. Caryll remarked in a critical, detached spirit, was stupid rather than sensuous.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

As they walked they rhythmically swayed their heads; they were girls from Sallertaine, but the light was behind them, and only Mathurin could recognise in the centre one Félicité Gauvrit.
— from Autumn Glory; Or, The Toilers of the Field by René Bazin

The Chairman, with a smile of triumph, declared the motion unanimously carried, and then, with the Secretary and the books, made a bolt through a side-door, before the meeting could rush in upon them, and prevent the success of this ruse .
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Not even the masters could read it, and it was an endless source of amusement to himself and Franz, who alone was in the secret.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various