Along the rails a man was walking so fast that people stared after him when he passed. “Look at that ass!” said Soames; “he must be mad to walk like that in this heat!”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

“It's not so dusty,” said Peter; “look at the Aqueduct straddling slap across the valley like a giant centipede, and then the towns sticking their church spires up out of the trees like pens out of an inkstand.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Particular laws, inasmuch as they concern empirically determined phenomena, cannot be entirely deduced from pure laws, although they all stand under them.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Pierre looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved his lips without uttering a sound.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With big, frightened eyes she waited on them, serving her best, noting that they paid little attention to anything saving the strong cups of coffee provided.
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

We continued thus a whole year in perfect love and tranquillity; and seeing that God had increased my small stock, I projected a voyage by sea, to hazard somewhat by trade.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon

The rank, moreover, until the latter part of the seventeenth century, was purely local and temporary, and simply denoted the senior officer for the time being of the ships in company.
— from British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device by William Gordon Perrin

The Master carried the pitifully light armful to a secluded spot far beyond the stables; and there he buried it.
— from Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

People passing looked at them, and smiled.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti

The girls having been withdrawn, licentious youths linked arms, and bore down the broad pavé , quizzing this person, laughing at that, and staring the pin-stickers and straw-chippers out of countenance.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

It is there that the most opulent priests live and there are settled the greatest part of the French noblesse.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

It is to the effect that our laws relating to public lands should be so framed and administered as to ultimately secure freeholds to the greatest number of citizens , and to this end all laws facilitating speculation in public lands authorizing or permitting entry or purchase in large bodies ought to be repealed, and all public lands adapted to agriculture, subject to bounty grants, and those in aid of education ought to be reserved for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers, and disposed of only under the provisions of the homestead law.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various