She chucked the letter back to me unopened, and kicked me out of the house, morally, not physically, although not far off it.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He turned from me with the greatest assurance, and said, “How are you, Ma’am?-how is Lady Louisa?-you see I can’t live a moment out of the house.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

It warmed toward these poor, ungainly and pathetically “homely” creatures, and as I turned to hide the generous moisture in my eyes, I said, “No—the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure—and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But yet I'll assure you, at the very first word, she has once obliged me, by consenting to be friends with you; and if she gives me no great cause, I shall not, perhaps, put you on such disagreeable service again.—Now, therefore, be you once more bed-fellows and board-fellows, as I may say, for some days longer; and see that Pamela sends no letters nor messages out of the house, nor keeps a correspondence unknown to me, especially with that Williams; and, as for the rest, shew the dear girl all the respect that is due to one I must love, if she will deserve it, as I hope she will yet; and let her be under no unnecessary or harsh restraints.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

That of Jonas Ramus, which is perhaps the most circumstantial of any, cannot impart the faintest conception either of the magnificence, or of the horror of the scene—or of the wild bewildering sense of the novel which confounds the beholder.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Oh, the relief, the difference it made to have the man out of the house.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

While there were divers and sundry movements of our troops hither and thither, and much sacrifice of life, after General Lawton’s Zapote River campaign in June, no substantial progress was made in conquering and occupying the Islands until the fall following the Zapote River campaign above mentioned, when the twenty-five regiments of volunteers were organized and sent out.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

"A direct clue, now—" Before he could say any more one of the hotel servants came into the coffee-room and made for our table.
— from Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Lady Alice Alison has been calling, and she tells me that the youngest Miss Allonby is going to marry one of the Haldanes of Eldersmain.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

In the other songs of the 112 same author, in which the mind obeys only the heart, he is poetic in all the simplicity of passion, though in search of wit he sometimes involves himself in obscure subtilties.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

A motion presented by Mr. Villiers, the Free Trade advocate, for the immediate repeal of the corn laws was also lost by a majority of over three hundred.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Of a lord that was newly married one observed that he grew fat; Yes, said sir Walter Raleigh, any beast will grow fat, if you take him from the common and graze him in the several .
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

If the defendant be an ex-convict or a well-known crook, his photograph and measurements will speedily remove all doubt upon the subject, but if he be a foreigner (particularly a Pole, Italian or a Chinaman), or even merely one of the homogeneous inhabitants of the densely-populated East Side of New York, it is sometimes a puzzling problem.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

They are able already to rescue the navigation of the Mississippi out of the hands of Spain, and to add New Orleans to their own territory.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

Not that you, my innocent child, could impart other than pleasure to the meanest of weak mortals, yet it brought afresh to my mind a subject, which, though it marks one of the happiest moments of my life, owing to peculiar circumstances,--the memory of my dear husband being closely associated therewith,--brings to my heart, also, a shadow of grief.
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

In the evening all the people went to their homes, and Jesus went over the Mount of Olives to his friends at Bethany.
— from Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old A Complete Life of Christ Written in Simple Language, Based on the Gospel Narrative by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Suppose one of the servants, on an investigating tour as to the cause of doggie’s perturbation, should chance upon him (Bob) showing three men out of the house in that secret manner at this time of night?
— from Nothing But the Truth by Frederic Stewart Isham