It is true, that the peers have a great influence in Page 482 the kingdom, and in every part of the public concerns.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But I could see it wasn't that, so I drew him out and pumped him, and got it all from him at last.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The remaining eight publications in the Clarendon Press Series which have also been indexed are those marked C, C2, C3, W, W2, P, H, and G; i.e. three books containing extracts from Chaucer, two books containing parts of Wyclif’s Bible, part of Piers Plowman, Hampole’s Psalter, and Gamelyn; the full titles of which are given below.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Had they not been restrained by motives of a more interested nature, they would probably have answered Galerius in the words of Cæsar's veterans: "If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp.
— 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

As a matter of fact, a war of this sort carried on against evil is much more profoundly pernicious than any sort of personal hostility; and generally, it is "the person" which reassumes, at least in fancy, the position of opponent (the devil, evil spirits, etc.).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He had a handsome face, an artfully poised hat, a glass in one eye, and a nosegay in his buttonhole.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

[She takes his tenderly proferred hand and gives it a squeeze that makes him open his eyes; then turns away, and says to her mother]
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

Had they not been restrained by motives of a more interested nature, they would probably have answered Galerius in the words of Caesar's veterans: "If our general wishes to lead us to the banks of the Tyber, we are prepared to trace out his camp.
— 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

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Little wonder is it that, knowing what the ancestral cult has done for Japan, Prof. H. A. Giles in quoting this passage adds a significant remark.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

This was followed by the story "Björger, by Knud Pedersen Hamsund ," a gloomy, introspective tale of an orphaned peasant boy and a lady of high degree who died for love of him—a foreshadowing of the motif in "Victoria.
— from Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen

Life, in shape of bird and beast and fish, prospered here; and glittering insects--ichneumons, that hung motionless like golden beads in some beam of light; butterflies, that came and went; and long-legged spiders and great ants--likewise justified themselves.
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts

The assembled people seeks; proclaims aloud 110 It was no time for counsel; in their spears Lay all their prudence now; the tyrant yet Was not so firmly seated on his throne, But that one shock of their united force Would dash him from the summit of his pride, Headlong and grovelling in the dust.
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

Specimen Jones had no more to say, and they rode for a while, their ponies’ hoofs always grating in the gravel, and the milk-cans lightly clanking on the burro’s pack.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

The proctodæum [TN15] ( pr. ) has also grown in length, and the two Malpighian vessels which grow out from its blind extremity (fig. 20 e , mp.g. ) have become quite distinct.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The next evening when I called and the servant told me her master had just gone out, I pushed past her, and got into the dining-room, where the gentleman was just cutting away at a piece of roast beef.
— from The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. by Ellen Langdon

Because he believes many people pretend to more admiration of the beauties of nature than they really feel, and is disgusted with such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less discrimination in viewing them himself than he possesses.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen