Mr. Lovel made no answer, but looked extremely sullen; and, soon after, we left the gentlemen to themselves.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Pfuel alone seemed to consider Napoleon a barbarian like everyone else who opposed his theory.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And then Jerry—like them both and not a bit like 'em—her head in the clouds, all right—a girl who sees beauty and a promise and a vision in everything—a girl of dreams!
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

Action and Uses : Formerly used as a cheap substitute for quinine sulphate, over which it possesses no advantage, being less efficient and more convulsant.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

Yes, as a flood brings incongruous animals together on some little isle in brotherhood of fear—creatures who never met before without one eating the other; and there they cuddle—so the thief Ramgolam clung to the man he had tried to rob; the Hindoo Ayan and the English maid hustled their mistress, the haughty Mrs. Beresford, and were hustled by her, for a bit of this human pillar; and little Murphy and Fred Beresford wriggled in at him where they could: and the poor goat crept into the quivering mass trembling like an aspen, and not a butt left either in his head or his heart.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

He pictured to himself, I dare to fancy, what we may picture to ourselves—for such places have often been, and are now, in this world—some new and barren land, even as the very gravel on which we stand was once, just risen from the icy sea, all waste and lifeless, without a growing weed, an insect, even a moss.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley

The Whig leaders accepted a retainer from the manufacturers of the North, and by legislating exclusively in their favor almost drove South Carolina to secession.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

And it will be, perhaps, looked on as true once more, as natural, all but literally exact, when we who are now men are in our graves, and you who are now boys will be grown men; in the days when the present soulless mechanical notion of the world and of men shall have died out, and philosophers shall see once more that Wisdom is no discovery of their own, but the inspiration of the Almighty; and that this world is no dead and dark machine, but alight with the Glory, and alive with the Spirit, of God.
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

She is not a bit like English old ladies, sticking to their hideous early Victorian settings for their diamonds; hers are the very latest, and although she is seventy-eight, she crosses the ocean twice a year to have her frocks fitted, and see what is going on.
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn

You will be interested, because nearly all boys like everything pertaining to fishing.
— from Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Allen Chapman

Let the Abbot of Beaubec (in Normandy), who has for a long time allowed his monk to construct, for persons who do not belong to the order, pavements, which exhibit levity and curiosity, be in slight penance for three days, the last of them on bread and water; and let the monk be recalled before the feast of All Saints, and never again be lent, excepting to persons of our order, with whom let him not presume to construct pavements which do not extend the dignity of the order.
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field