If Philip had adopted some regular profession, even some trade, he might now be a prosperous editor or a conscientious plumber, or an honest lawyer, and have borrowed money at the saving’s bank and built a cottage, and be now furnishing it for the occupancy of Ruth and himself.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

But during nine years in which he held that province, he acquired such riches as must have rendered him, without competition, the most opulent person in the state.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

added Zakusin, wiping from his brow the perspiration that had suddenly appeared on it; he was evidently longing to speak, and in all probability had a speech ready.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The door closed, Pencroft, Herbert and Spilett remained there, seated on a bench, talking little but wondering much.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Her eyes filled with tears as she pictured her acquaintance so renewed; and her mother, perceiving her comfortable suggestions to have had no good effect, proposed, as another expedient for restoring her spirits, that they should call on Mrs. Allen.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In a certain sense, we may say that every normal person has a sleep ritual, in other words that he insists on certain conditions, the absence of which hinders him from falling asleep; he has created certain observances by which he bridges the transition from waking to sleeping and these he repeats every evening in the same manner.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Place the theatres on the same footing, and we shall promptly have a similar revolution: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscrupulous low comedians attract crowds to gaze at bevies of girls who have nothing to exhibit but their prettiness, will vanish like the obscene songs which were supposed to enliven the squalid dulness, incredible to the younger generation, of the music-halls fifteen years ago.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

Can And Samarchand by Oxus , Temirs Throne, To Paquin of Sinaean Kings, and thence To Agra and Lahor of great Mogul Down to the golden Chersones , or where The Persian in Ecbatan sate, or since In Hispahan , or where the Russian Ksar In Mosco , or the Sultan in Bizance , Turchestan -born; nor could his eye not ken Th’ Empire of Negus to his utmost Port Ercoco and the less Maritine Kings Mombaza , and Quiloa , and Melind , And Sofala thought Ophir , to the Realme Of Congo , and Angola fardest South; Or thence from Niger Flood to Atlas Mount The Kingdoms of Almansor , Fez , and Sus , Marocco and Algiers , and Tremisen ; On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway The VVorld: in Spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico the seat of Motezume , And Cusco in Peru , the richer seat Of Atabalipa , and yet unspoil’d Guiana , whose great Citie Geryons Sons Call El Dorado: but to nobler sights Michael from Adams eyes the Filme remov’d VVhich that false Fruit that promis’d clearer sight Had bred; then purg’d with Euphrasie and Rue The visual Nerve, for he had much to see; And from the VVell of Life three drops instill’d.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Mademoiselle Leblanc tried to throw herself in front of the door; I pushed her aside so roughly that she fell, and, I believe, hurt herself slightly.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Tom pressed his advantage, showering rights and lefts everywhere he could find an opening.
— from Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell

She pitied him and she respected him, even though she could not understand his motives nor guess the weight of the responsibility which he had taken upon himself.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico the seat of Montezume, And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoilʼd Guiana, whose great city Geryonʼs sons Call El Dorado”— Paradise Lost .
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

On the same page he also says, referring to the 6th of April: "The Sixth Corps now remained with the cavalry under Sheridan's direct command until after the surrender."
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

'Begin,' said he, after a pause, 'begin, "This splendid pack had a stunning run.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

I should not like to have my young fiancée learn at what an hour and place her adopted sister receives a stranger who----"
— from Danira by E. Werner

Aimée heard the bullets scream past her as she ran.
— from At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium by William Le Queux

He realized the cave-man would resist an attempt to punish him, and such resistance might inflame the prisoners anew.
— from Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne