He looked out several times at Mukhorty and could see that his back was uncovered and the drugget and breeching lying on the snow, and that he ought to get up and cover him, but he could not bring himself to leave Nikita and disturb even for a moment the joyous condition he was in.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In Colonel Brandon alone, of all her new acquaintance, did Elinor find a person who could in any degree claim the respect of abilities, excite the interest of friendship, or give pleasure as a companion.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In the case of "sporting" plants, the bud, which in its earliest condition does not apparently differ essentially from an ovule, is alone affected.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But not a drop ever fell, and it finished a grand day, and a lovely night after it.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

[390] A separation "from bed and board" ( quoad thorum seu quoad cohabitationem ) is allowed for various causes, such as excessive cruelty, for a determinate or an indeterminate period; but there is no absolute divorce even for adultery.
— from A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene A. (Eugene Arthur) Hecker

It is narrow and dark enough for a colossal chimney, running far back into the bowels of the mountain heights behind.
— from Greece and the Ægean Islands by Philip Sanford Marden

Never after did either for a moment cease to be his companion.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

If we endeavour to consider electricity and magnetism as the results of two forces of a physical agent, or a peculiar condition of matter, exerted in determinate directions perpendicular to each other, then, it appears to me, that we must consider these two states or forces as convertible into each other in a greater or smaller degree; i.e. that an element of an electric current has not a determinate electric force and a determinate magnetic force constantly existing in the same ratio, but that the two forces are, to a certain degree, convertible by a process or change of condition at present unknown to us.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

He had walked nearly all day except for a short time when Marushka had asked to have him ride in the cart and play for her.
— from Our Little Hungarian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet