With a yet sweeter smile, he said everything that need be said of his sister's concern, regret, and dependence on Catherine's honour.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

My clothes were rather a disappointment, of course.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Bolivia concurre con el diez y ocho por ciento de la producción mundial de ese metal, y que los Estados Unidos reciben ahora de Oriente.... —... corriendo el riesgo de que su paso por el canal de Suez se vea dificultado en tiempo de guerra—agregó mister Smith, completando la frase.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Good Mrs. Yolland could only cry, and recommend a drop of comfort out of the Dutch bottle.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The prisoner at once set herself to eating and spinning assiduously, but without apparent result, and despairing of completing the task consulted an old man of very sad countenance who had long been a captive in the hillock.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

This cabal has, with great success, propagated a doctrine which serves for a color to those acts of treachery; and whilst it receives any degree of countenance it will be utterly senseless to look for a vigorous opposition to the court party.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It should, however, be observed that even when it is beyond our power to realise virtue immediately at will, we recognise a duty of cultivating it and seeking to develop it: and this duty of cultivation extends to all virtuous habits or dispositions in which we are found to be deficient, so far as we can thus increase our tendency to do the corresponding acts in future; however completely such acts may on each occasion be within the control of the will.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a sleep of many hours.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

My understanding was that General Grant thought it wise and prudent to give all these officers appropriate commands, that would enable them to regain the influence they had lost; and, as a general reorganization of all the armies was then necessary, he directed me to keep in mind especially the claims of Generals Buell, McCook, and Crittenden, and endeavor to give them commands that would be as near their rank and dates of commission as possible; but I was to do nothing until I heard further from him on the subject, as he explained that he would have to consult the Secretary of War before making final orders.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Mr. Britt, like a man who had received a dipperful of cold water in the face, backed away from anything like a proposal at that unpropitious moment.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

After a moment's silence he said, "Tell me, baron, how long would it take to go to Devil's Cliff?" "About eleven hours; the roads are difficult, one could not reach there before nightfall."
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

Damnation! [ Reads ] A Deed of Conveyance of the whole estate real of Arabella Languish , widow , in trust to Edward Mirabell .
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

The hermit writes the account of the vision on parchment, seals it with wax, and brings it to the King, who compares it with the answer of the messengers, just arrived from Rome, and determines on carrying out the design as the Apostle had ordered.
— from The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by John Ruskin

My Tenant's Advertisements of Ruins and Dilapidations often cast a Damp on my Spirits, even in the Instant when the Sun, in all his Splendor, gilds my Eastern Palaces.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Many events have transpired in every country, which the natural sagacity of the most observant minds in that country had anticipated as the result of natural causes, such as the ravages and downfall of cities and the overthrow of empires by the merciless hand of war.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

We could hear the cannon and guns, and see clouds of smoke before we came in sight of the battle.—We had glimpses, too, of reserves entrenched behind hillocks and wooded spaces, and once we almost routed a detachment of cavalry stationed by the roadside.
— from Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix by Joseph Pennell

The man or woman never lived who refused a drink of cold water on the desert in summer.
— from Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

Thousands of ages ago the lunar surface was subjected to terrible volcanic actions which forced the land into ridges, some of them supposed to exceed 20,000 feet in height, and rents and depressions of corresponding depths.
— from 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Clark) Fowler