Very pretty she looked, though very angry, as she made herself as tall as she possibly could (which was not extremely tall), and utterly renounced her patron with a lofty toss of her rich brown head.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

From this table we may at once calculate the answer to such a question as this: What is the sum of all the numbers composed of our different digits (nought excluded) that add up to 14? Multiply 14 by the number beneath t in the table, 5, and multiply the result by 6,666, and you will have the answer.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The bones were given to the dog to eat; if he did not eat them all up, the remains were buried under the dung in the cattle-stall.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The child, not expecting this attack, uttered a cry of alarm.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Still, the association would not entertain the application until the money was present.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The King's extreme decrepitude for a young man had several years before given rise to rumours amongst the vulgar that he was bewitched, and the assertion had been made the subject of grave consideration by the Grand Inquisitor of the time, who reported that he could find no evidence to act upon.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

He did not enter the army until after his graduation from Oxford and then he took service in the cavalry, the usual choice of the English "gentleman."
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

On the Friday before Whitsuntide, 1521, tidings came to me at Antwerp that Martin Luther had been so treacherously taken prisoner, for he trusted the Emperor Charles's herald, who had been granted to him with the Imperial safe conduct, but as soon as the herald had brought him near Eisenach, to an unfriendly place, he said that he would not need him any more and rode away.
— from Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer

During the day we frequently saw suspicious-looking craft, which were pronounced by the crew to be Jan-dous ; but none of them were near enough to attack us.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

There is no escaping this absurdity, unless you come back to a standard of reason and duty, imperative upon our merely pleasurable sensations.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But now events took an unexpected and disconcerting turn.
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

The station at Winton was a full twenty miles from Pendleton and, with such heavy snow, Harry did not expect to arrive until late in the afternoon.
— from The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

"So you see," said Marian, "you're not entertaining these angels unawares."
— from Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells

Religion is no exception to a universal law; indeed, more than anything else, it is required of him who preaches it that he should speak to living men in the living language of to-day—not according to formulas that have long died out, or in terms that have long become extinct; and this specially may be said of Mr. Lynch, that as much as any one he realizes page 192 p. 192
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

[Footnote 81: One of the chief objections to Bergaigne's conception of Varuna as restrainer is that it does not explain the antique union with Mitra.]
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins