He smiled and thrust money and paper into his leather amulet-case.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The few pages I had laid aside were not without their weight in the choice of subject.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

At play I had lost, it is true, a couple of pieces; but seeing that every one round about me played upon honour and gave their bills, I, of course, preferred that medium to the payment of ready money, and when I lost paid on account.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

From the time they had quitted the burning room to that moment, Waters had passed into his listless, abstracted condition, so helpless and feeble that he retained the grasp of M'liss's hand more through some instinctive prompting rather than the dictates of reason.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Near on his right a prince, in hue Like pure gold freshly burnished, view: Broad is his chest, his eye is red, His black hair curls about his head: 'Tis Lakshmaṇ, faithful friend, who shares His brother's joys, his brother's cares.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

As Stendhal died early in that year, this probably is his last writing.—Tr.]
— from On Love by Stendhal

This difficulty ariseth from the opinion, that every Subject hath of a Propriety in his lands and goods, exclusive of the Soveraigns Right to the use of the same.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

M. Dubuis had never fired a pistol in his life.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I have not come across much of golden pollen in her lotus bank, but have nothing to complain of as regards the profusion of the sweet savour of good-fellowship. (27)
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

As to eating at home, so dear a habit, so old a habit, old enough to share with every beast that drags her prey into her lair, that she and her little ones may gnaw in safety; this remains strongly in evidence, and will for some time yet.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Aided in defence by a poniard in his left hand, Cristoval warded cut and thrust, and after a short moment of rapid clash and glitter his opponents fell back, one with a cheek laid open, another coughing from a thrust in the chest.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

I have lost peace; I have lost a thousand opportunities of doing good which can never be recalled; I have lost the happy sense of Jesus’ love and presence.—Dear father, would you give me that open book?—These words just suit my life, Thomas:— “‘Nothing but leaves!
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and to drink, And to let his soul take pleasure in his labour.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

The driver put in her luggage and set the harness to rights.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At this I strove to rise in sheer amazement and thus found my head pillowed in her lap.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

What was it in her poor dead face which stirred in him a memory which had no date nor place in his life?
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

It must have been as much as that because you recollect how Mr. Mather put it, his looking at the clock and the time that Mr. Borden lingered at the store, went upstairs, came down, went out into the middle of the street, went back and talked with Mather and Shortsleeves a minute or two and then went on.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

The medicines which he prepared in his laboratory became fashionable, and brought him a great deal of money.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson