But all this ease in our private relations does not make us lawless as citizens.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The ordinary Quince Tree grows often to the height and bigness of a reasonable apple tree, but more usually lower, and crooked, with a rough bark, spreading arms, and branches far abroad.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Till Gareth panted hard, and his great heart, Foredooming all his trouble was in vain, Laboured within him, for he seemed as one That all in later, sadder age begins To war against ill uses of a life, But these from all his life arise, and cry, 'Thou hast made us lords, and canst not put us down!'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“Be so good as to tell Mr. Kalganov from me that I didn't ask for his clothes, and it's not my doing that they've dressed me up like a clown.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The most utterly loathsome and coarse: I can’t tell you.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the evening of our intended start for [255] the camp-ground, something occurred in the ship yard where I was at work, which detained me unusually late, and compelled me either to disappoint my young friends, or to neglect carrying my weekly dues to Master Hugh.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"Gee, Dick," said Pete, "that makes us like a couple of sure enough detectives, don't it?" "Yes—except that you're supposed to prevent anything crooked from being done, and not simply to find out how it was done afterward, and who did it.
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters; Or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed by Robert Maitland

As she smiled and turned away from the German, mute, uncomplaining, like a child wise in sorrow beyond its years, Siegmund's resentment against her suddenly took fire, and blazed him with sheer pain of pity.
— from The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Suppose you were going to Montreal to visit Aunt Katharine and your cousins, and you were to meet Uncle Leo and Cousin Margaret at quarter to eight o'clock.
— from Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896 by Various

In his own house of Kinkora, Brian entertained at Christmas 3,000 guests, including the Danish Lords of Dublin and Man, the fugitive Earl of Kent, the young King of Scots, certain Welsh Princes, and those of Munster, Ulster, Leinster and Connaught, beside his hostages.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

The merchants set up a weeping and wailing, and made much useless lamentation and complaint:—"Whether thou supplicatest them, or whether thou complainest, the robbers will not return thee their plunder":—all but that ragged wretch, who stood collected within himself, and unmoved by this adventure.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

He shrank from mere uneasiness like a child, and bore the preparatory agonies of his death- attack like a martyr.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In my corner I have a cot made up like a couch.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

why it is what makes us live," answered Celia.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In addition to collecting URLs through search engines and Web directories (particularly those specializing in sexually explicit sites or other categories relevant to one of the filtering companies' category definitions), and by mining user logs and collecting URLs submitted by users, the filtering companies expand their list of harvested URLs by using "spidering" software that can "crawl" the lists of pages produced by the previous four methods, following their links downward to bring back the pages to which they link (and the pages to which those pages link, and so on, but usually down only a few levels).
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania