Everyone petted her, and 'Daisey', as they called her, was in a fair way to have her head turned.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But when one or both parties have actually disappeared, and the combat has ceased for lack of combatants, natures not hostile to one another can fill the vacant place.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The continued strife between these two political parties had a direct (and generally a harmful) influence on literature, as many of the great writers were used by the Whig or Tory party to advance its own interests and to satirize its enemies.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her 'rubbish', as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Above all the rest, Titus's own valor, and Josephus's own patience under his afflictions, made him pity him, as did also the commiseration of his age, when he recalled to mind that but a little while ago he was fighting, but lay now in the hands of his enemies, which made him consider the power of fortune, and how quick is the turn of affairs in war, and how no state of men is sure; for which reason he then made a great many more to be of the same pitiful temper with himself, and induced them to commiserate Josephus.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It helps also all diseases of the brain, proceeding of cold and phlegmatic humours and distillations, as also for the falling sickness.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

At last she put her apron down, and looking me earnestly in the face, asked, “Was that the reason Miss Matty wouldn’t order a pudding to-day?
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Hulot promised her a dowry and to wed her to Joseph's oldest son.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Phr. hose and doublet : as the typical male attire.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

For a long time my brother stared out of the window in blank astonishment, watching the policemen hammering at door after door, and delivering their incomprehensible message.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A sense of witnesses perturbed Hazel, a discomfort as from surveillance.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

But he does fear—he ought to fear—he shall fear” (continued Jackeymo, working himself up to passion)—“for the Padrone has a daughter, and his enemy is a villain.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

Whether in love or war, I have always considered that the pursuer has a decided advantage over the pursued.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid

He still gripped the sheet of paper, however, and deliberately, as by an intense effort of will, read it through a second time from beginning to end.
— from Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood

I'd read to her by her bedside, and talk that infernal history to her, if it pleased her, all day and all night.”
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

He was tired and health-broken, and had a large family to care for; he was worried over the dark days of his country, while possessing hardly a dollar and living in a city always indifferent to his genius.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

Pallas, Haxthausen, and Dubois, all give representations of these figures, but in some instances at least they are repetitions of the same original.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

He promised her a divorce, and we shall insist on it.
— from The Live Corpse by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Adair appeared to be considering something, and when he had thought it out, the porter had announced dinner and they had taken their places at the table.
— from Empire Builders by Francis Lynde

And that every member present of this delegation shall henceforth be a civil officer, viz.: a justice of the peace, in the character of a committeeman, to issue process, hear and determine all matters of controversy, according to said adopted laws; and to preserve peace, union and harmony in said county; and to use every exertion to spread the love of country, and fire of freedom throughout America, until a more general and organized government be established in this province."
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter