One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess—which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study—and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry—for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his—when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“But if the convicts had used her, they would have pillaged her, or rather gone off with her.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

It was at this time that the meeting, or, rather gathering of the members of this inharmonious family took place in the cell of the elder who had such an extraordinary influence on Alyosha.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alexan′drov, a town of Russia, government of Vladimir, with a famous convent, in the church of which are interred two sisters of Peter the Great; manufactures of steel and cotton goods.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The incidental mention of Christ as superseding all other relations gives occasion to this argumentative οὖν: comp.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

and co-heir of Richard Garth, of Morden, Surrey.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

The women of the better class, on the other hand, are never seen disguised as Parisians except on rare gala occasions.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

All of these friends were men, but in Catherine Ray, afterwards the wife of Governor William Greene of Rhode [Pg 365] Island, and the mother of Ray Greene, one of the early United States Senators from that State, Franklin had a friend whose sex gave a different turn of sentiment and expression to his pen.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

As they turned in towards headquarters, some one recognized the horses, and a shout of welcome greeted our ranger guests of over two weeks before.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

There were the Yarra trees, and fine grassy flats on its banks; and I came to a fine looking piece of rising ground, on the right bank, where the grass was on fire.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

The wondrous story of regeneration goes on and on, to the love that seeks to give itself utterly.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

But this John Edgar would always vanquish him till he put on the red coat of Rob Grier of Lag, that noted persecutor.
— from The Standard Bearer by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

You see, all our Rulers grow on bushes in the Royal Gardens, and the last one we had got mildewed and withered before his time.
— from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

6. Margaret, who in 1709 married Gregor, heir of Robert Grant of Gartenmor.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

[The Thirteen.] BOURLAC (Bernard-Jean-Baptiste-Macloud, Baron de), former procureur- general of the Royal Court of Rouen, grand officer of the Legion of Honor.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Part 1 by Anatole Cerfberr