I was very glad of your letter this morning; for, my mother taking medicine, Eliza keeping her bed with a cold, and Choles not coming, made us rather dull and dependent on the post.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

“Well, madame?” unhesitatingly repeated Debray.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

My uncle reflected deeply.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

ūpstīgend m. one who mounts up, rider , DR; CHy 4 1 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

For her sister Heresuid, mother to Aldwulf, 687 king of the East Angles, was at that time living in the same monastery, under regular discipline, waiting for an everlasting crown; and led by her example, she continued a whole year in the aforesaid province, with the design of going abroad; but afterwards, Bishop Aidan recalled her to her home, and she received land to the extent of one family on the north side of the river Wear; 688 where likewise for a year she led a monastic life, with very few companions.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Côté des journaux et périodiques, j'en consomme moins qu'avant mon utilisation régulière d'internet (1991).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“ Le général en chef doit se conformer à plusieurs coutumes et observances superstitieuses; par exemple, il faut qu’il mette une robe de couleur différente pour chaque jour de la semaine; le dimanche il s’habille en blanc, le lundi en jaune, le mardi en vert, le mercredi en rouge, le jeudi en bleu, le vendredi en noir, et le samedi en violet.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

However, the rain stopped as suddenly as it had begun, the sun came out in all his fierceness, and before we reached the hotel I was most unbecomingly rough dried.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

Marion usually remained during the smoking when the party was small, so the talk went on uninterruptedly, Roswell continuing his easy
— from With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

marveled Uncle Ramsey, delightedly, after Courtland had thanked him, promised to think it over, and gone back to his room.
— from The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill

This lady, the daughter of a knight of good family in Lincolnshire, under some of those stimulants of thought which were stirring up the stagnant traditions of medieval piety, had been led to conceive serious doubts with regard to the Scripture authority for some of the most universally received doctrines of the Roman Church.
— from What Does History Teach? Two Edinburgh Lectures by John Stuart Blackie

I found myself unconsciously repeating: "Double, double toil and trouble, Boil, cauldron, boil and bubble."
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

Or else she would have to wind up all the twelve tunes in his musical box, an elaborate instrument with little drums, the parchment of which was illuminated with posies, as much unlike real drums as the tinkling music from old operas was unlike a real band.
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

Such at least was my situation before my Uncle Robert died.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston