It will not flee from me; for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Before him there was standing not only Madame, but also a young girl whom she was holding by the hand.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I have looked after the wild stock of the town, which give a faithful herdsman a good deal of trouble by leaping fences; and I have had an eye to the unfrequented nooks and corners of the farm; though I did not always know whether Jonas or Solomon worked in a particular field to-day; that was none of my business.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawly notice of my being forced to go into London, but he having also business we left our office business to Mr. Spicer and he
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And from his face it is evident that he is ready to do anything to please not only Malahin, but the whole world—he is so happy, so pleased, and so delighted!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I feel as if my soul beat in every nerve of my body.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To say nothing of my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Its splendid halls and suites of spacious apartments are floored with a mosaic-work of costly marbles; its windows, the whole height of each room, admit the sunshine through the most transparent of plate-glass; its high cornices are gilded, and its ceilings gorgeously painted; and a lofty dome—through which, from the central pavement, you may gaze up to the sky, as with no obstructing medium between—surmounts the whole.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[159] Sir Peregrine Maitland, who probably was present, is told that he might in this manner immortalize his name: "O Maitland blest!
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The Prodromus and Notitia of Matthew Belius appear to contain a rich fund of information concerning ancient and modern Hungary.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This not only may, but, according to Darwin, must of necessity produce an eye.
— from Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

She would not only misunderstand, but she would misstate with premeditation and malice.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

Formerly garrisoned by a whole regiment, it is now occupied merely by a double company—two hundred men—of an Indian Infantry battalion.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

The narrow official mind, brought into contact with native life, never develops in the direction of humanity; and Ovando had now for some time made the great discovery that it was less trouble to kill people than to try to rule over them wisely.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7 by Filson Young

I have ever been ready to imitate the negligent garb, which is yet observable amongst the young men of our time, to wear my cloak on one shoulder, my cap on one side, a stocking in disorder, which seems to express a kind of haughty disdain of these exotic ornaments, and a contempt of the artificial; but I find this negligence of much better use in the form of speaking.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05 by Michel de Montaigne

While the Generality of the World are fetter'd by Rules, and move by proper and just Methods, he who has no Respect to any of them, carries away the Reward due to that Propriety of Behaviour, with no other Merit but that of having neglected it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Again, the Antankarana, a tribe in the extreme north of Madagascar, believe that the spirits of their dead chiefs pass into crocodiles, while those of common folk are reborn in other animals.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

"Emérance, I think not of myself but you.
— from Traitor and True: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

This process is employed at several works in the neighbourhood of Matlock Bath, in Derbyshire, but much larger quantities could be produced in different parts of the country if the demand for the article rendered its production more profitable.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

The name of my book is Saturday Mornings, because other days I have to go to school, but Saturdays I can sweep and dust and wash dishes.
— from A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Caroline French Benton