So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

‘Listen, Pau Amma,’ said the Eldest Magician.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

More than a year had passed away since the events recorded in the last chapter.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

the rights of all other peoples and seeks to establish its domination over the whole world.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Call in the dancers; Sir Rowland, we’ll sit, if you please, and see the entertainment.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

She ate from morning to night, grew fat, chatted gaily with the other patients and seemed to enjoy her immobility as if it were the rest to which she was entitled after fifty years of going up and down stairs, of turning mattresses, of carrying coal from one story to another, of sweeping and dusting.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She expressed her gratitude again, but it was too painful a subject to each, to be dwelt on farther.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Certain properties are sure to express themselves: coldness, prudence, hardness, calm consideration, greed, are just as indubitable in the hand as kindness, frankness, gentleness, and honesty.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The climatic conditions of the northern parts are such that Europeans find it difficult to settle there, and in the limitless sugar and coffee plantations the employment of white labour has always been unsuccessful, in spite of every effort.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

If you have problems assigned, solve them entirely by yourself, even if you make mistakes.
— from How to Study by George Fillmore Swain

“Capital makes laws to keep you there and hires police and soldiers to enforce those laws.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

When individual life dies, it flings itself on the right hand to the sun, on the left hand to the moon, in the dual polarity, and sinks to earth.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In October he may have finished his work, and then I shall for a short time leave my wife for Paris, and shall try every possible means to obtain a commission for the setting of the said subject.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

Her delight that Alaire had come to see her pleased and shamed the elder woman, who hesitatingly confessed the object of her visit.
— from Heart of the Sunset by Rex Beach

Well, when dad saw the German Emperor drive down the great street, and got a look at his face, he said, “Hennery, I have got to see that young man and advise him to go and consult a doctor,” and so we made arrangements to go to the Palace and see the Emperor and his son, the Crown Prince, who will before long take the empire on his shoulders, if William is as sick as he looks.
— from Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Now some German destroyers hurried up and made a smoke-screen between us and our prey as she turned eight points to port, and listing heavily fled into the mist....
— from From Snotty to Sub by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester

Parasites are sometimes the exciting cause, and should always be destroyed immediately.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick