She believed he was looking at her; probably reflecting on what she had said, and trying to understand the manner.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Aside from their intrinsic value, Stevenson's novels are interesting in this respect,--that they mark a return to the pure romanticism of Walter Scott.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It is the first anniversary of the happy marriage of Mr and Mrs Lammle, and the celebration is a breakfast, because a dinner on the desired scale of sumptuosity cannot be achieved within less limits than those of the non-existent palatial residence of which so many people are madly envious.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But so long as people remain on what such an invaluable optimist might call the low level of sensuous thought, and so long as we imagine that we exist and suffer, an aristocratic regimen can only be justified by radiating benefit and by proving that were less given to those above less would be attained by those beneath them.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I particularly remember one wild, snowy afternoon, soon after my return in January: the children had all come up from dinner, loudly declaring that they meant ‘to be naughty;’ and they had well kept their resolution, though I had talked myself hoarse, and wearied every muscle in my throat, in the vain attempt to reason them out of it.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

“Not with the present rate of wages,” said Devilsdust.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

[Pg 291] At Neusohl, in the Carpathians, there are mines where the veins of copper lie in the ridges and peaks of the mountains, and in order to save expense being incurred by a long and difficult transport, along a rough and sometimes very precipitous road, one workman sorts over the dumps which have been thrown out from the mines, and another carries in a wheelbarrow the earth, fine and coarse sand, little stones, broken rock, and even the poorer ore, and overturns the barrow into a long open chute fixed to a steep rock.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Under the middle of the car was a powerful motor for revolving the wheels, in front of the dashboard was a projecting ram over which stood a search-light of 90,000 candle power, above the forward wheels were air brakes, the driver's seat was in front, and before it stood a steering wheel and several levers.
— from Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by Luis Senarens

Hunger, and on our part rational Offers, will suffice."
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle

The entries from the logbooks of Murray, Curtoys and Symons, in the Public Record Office, with such omissions as I have specified, are printed verbatim.
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

Two railroads now cross the range which he examined,—the Northern Pacific, by a pass just south of the Snoqualmie and north of the Nahchess, the very place of which McClellan reported that “there certainly is none between this (the Snoqualmie) and the Nahchess Pass;” and the Great Northern, by a pass at the head of the Wenachee or Pisquouse River, of which stream he declared, “It appears certain that there can be no pass at its head for a road.”
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

But in February, 1803, the Comte de Provence received overtures which showed that Bonaparte had never thought of playing the part of General Monk.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose