But so long and so entire had been my parents’ seclusion from the world, that many weeks elapsed before a suitable situation could be procured.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

42 Note 41 ( return ) [ Puoi se faceva stare denante a se, mentre sedeva, li baroni tutti in piedi ritti co le vraccia piecate, e co li capucci tratti.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If Mr. Knightley did not begin seriously, he was obliged to proceed so, for his proposal was caught at with delight; and the “Oh!
— from Emma by Jane Austen

What if the poles should frisk about And stand upon their heads!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

"He admitted to his plot," says Froissart, "the king and four of the principal nobles of the court.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

But as they could not find in this series any primal beginning or any highest member, they passed suddenly from the empirical conception of contingency to the pure category, which presents us with a series—not sensuous, but intellectual—whose completeness does certainly rest upon the existence of an absolutely necessary cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

“That is just what you would expect from a Pole,” said Father Christopher.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances; Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe; You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

In our excursions to-day we were so fortunate as to procure two of the pigeons seen for the first time on Pulo Ubi.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

The Mussen grocery firm opened in the spring of 1827 with a store in Mrs. Ousteroute’s building on the south side of St. Paul Street facing Vaudreuil Lane.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

But she had only time to learn that, there being no room in the house, he was lodged in one of the villages near, and to tell him that all were in the hurry of departure at the Court, when two Scotch gentlemen, named Ramsay and Morton, appeared in the avenue, and Arabella exclaimed eagerly, "We must part, Seymour, for the present.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

At this time there was no fear of his leaving his employment, and no fear that he would be dismissed from it; but a certain excitability and fitfulness of manner, a disposition to pass suddenly from gaiety to moody disquietude, which Anne had observed in her brother, had attracted, also, as has been seen, the serious attention of the other sisters, who were alarmed by it, and wondered greatly what the cause might be.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

And so, in the silence broken by empty phrases, she followed his reflections.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola