The excitement of play, hot rooms, and glaring lights was not calculated to allay the fever of the time.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Boirouge obtained of the famous physician, her relative, a gratuitous consultation by giving him full particulars regarding some pretended nervous trouble of the stomach, in which complaint he recognized a periodic dyspepsia.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I have been twice at the play; where, notwithstanding the excellence of the performers, the gayety of the company, and the decorations of the theatre, which are very fine, I could not help reflecting, with a sigh, upon our poor homely representations at Gloucester—But this, in confidence to my dear Willis—You know my heart, and will excuse its weakness.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is obvious that if persons have retrograded and got into difficulties, they are presumably less capable than those around them.
— from Janus in Modern Life by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

For past him rushed a girl with a fear-distorted face holding in her arms a baby that to my eyes looked as if it were dead.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

It's all the fault of those dreadful men!" said the little dark shadow to herself, as she stole up the stairs past his room as guiltily as if she were the sinner.
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was arrested by the police, and the captain had to go ashore, arrange the compensation, procure his release, and go bail, causing us a delay of two hours.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

He prevents her ringing, and going out into the space between the library and drawing-room, stands with his hand on the key of the gas-burner.
— from Five O'Clock Tea: Farce by William Dean Howells

Presently he rose, and, going to the wash-stand, poured a jugful of cold water over his head and face.
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

14 There that fisher-wife was announced by the maids, and went in, on the pretext of paying her respects, and gave the princess that present of fish.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Finally he presented his resignation as general-in-chief of the proposed Peruvian expedition, and withdrew the Army of the Andes from Santiago, leading a part over the Andes to Mendoza and leaving the rest on the Chilean side near the entrance to the pass.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

"By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."— Murray cor.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown