Seeing that she was standing in the doorway not allowing him to pass, he advanced straight upon her.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The people of Packingtown had lost their strike, if ever a people had, and so they read these papers gladly, and twenty thousand were hardly enough to go round.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

If, however, he succeeded in bringing the Hag in dry and unobserved, the master of the house had to pay him a small fine; or sometimes a jug of beer “from the cask next to the wall,” which seems to have commonly held the best beer, would be demanded by the bearer.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Now king David was desirous to know how many ten thousands there were of the people, but forgot the commands of Moses, 23 who told them beforehand, that if the multitude were numbered, they should pay half a shekel to God for every head.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

They passed, hallooing and shouting in a manner that indicated a recent carousal.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

He remembered how that other night he had watched the lamps paling all the length of Victoria Street; how he had hurried on his clothes and gone down into the street, down past houses and squares, to the street where she was staying, and there had stood and looked at the front of the little house, as still and grey as the face of a dead man.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The people had a single aim: to free their land from invasion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whatever degree of personal hardship and suffering their female captives were compelled to endure, their persons were never dishonoured by violence; a fact which can be predicated, we apprehend, of no other victorious soldiery that ever lived.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

The poet has a sensitive soul!
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

International oil and cocoa prices have a significant impact on the economy.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Ashamed to be unfashionable, they tolerate anything in each other rather than shabbiness or eccentricity, even when picturesque; hence a sarcastic allusion to the age of a few yards of silk as a set-off against a grossly cruel stab was a return wound of considerable depth cleverly given.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Persia has a small merchant navy.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

The maid had placed them in her palsied hand, as she had performed all other duties of the toilet that morning, but the wretched woman was quite unconscious of it all.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

When I, the owner of that precious heart, Am shouting Iö Pæan of high art; The noblest picture underneath the sun— A few more strokes, and victory is won!"
— from Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Human moral actions are called good or evil, in ordine ad rationem, quae est proprium principium humanorum actuum , saith Aquinas, 1179 thereupon inferring that illis mores dicuntur boni, qui rationi congruunt; mali autem, qui à ratione discordant .
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Peter hesitated, and said it was hard to bestow the flower of all the Chisholms on an English skin-merchant, a man who seemed to have neither house nor name, or was ashamed to own them.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 3 (of 3) by James Hogg

“Yes, Aunt Addie, as the children call her; she is staying at some private hotel, and she drove over to see them.
— from Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey