Ruth’s two girl-cousins were visiting her from San Rafael, and Mrs. Morse, under pretext of entertaining them, was pursuing her plan of surrounding Ruth with young people.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

As roughly as my modesty would let me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The zeal for "answers" is the explanation of much of the zeal for rigid and mechanical methods.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In many houses of the Tiyans of Malabar, offerings are made annually to a bygone personage named Kunnath Nāyar, and to his friend and disciple, Kunhi Rāyan, a Māppilla (Muhammadan).
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her, a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William or Lady Lucas without being rude, and many months were gone before she could at all forgive their daughter.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“You are too just and reasonable a man, monsieur!” said Treville, “not to accept the proposal I am about to make to you.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

They also took their journey home with rejoicing, and making merry, and singing hymns to God.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The Ice begin to run we move into our hut, visited by the Grand Chief of the Mandans, and Che chark Lagru a Chief of the Assinniboins & 7 men of that Nation, I Smoke with them and gave the Chief a Cord & a Carrot of Tobacco—this Nation rove in the Plains above this and trade with the British Companes on the Ossinniboin River, they are Divided into Several bands, the decendants of the Sioux & Speak nearly their langguage a bad disposed Set & Can raies about moo men in the 3 bands near this place, they trade with the nations of this neighbourhood for horses Corn & Snow all Day Capt. L. at the village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

2, 1, 3, Racilius asked me my opinion .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For all of these reasons, and many more which he right well knows will have occurred to persons of your exceptional acuteness, he is here to submit to you that the time has arrived when, with our hearts in our glasses, with tears in our eyes, with blessings on our lips, and in a general way with a profusion of gammon and spinach in our emotional larders, we should one and all drink to our dear friends the Lammles, wishing them many years as happy as the last, and many many friends as congenially united as themselves.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

If you order me to go after that cotton I’ll go; but before you do it, I’d like to have you recall the fact that the trading boats Tacoma and George Williams were all right and made money until they were sent to the Arkansas shore, and then they went up in smoke.
— from Sailor Jack, the Trader by Harry Castlemon

The party was small, and so few had yet arrived that it was impossible for Maltravers, without marked rudeness, to avoid his friends from the rectory; and Mrs. Merton, placing herself next to Evelyn, graciously motioned to Maltravers to occupy the third vacant seat on the sofa, of which she filled the centre.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

God was graciously watching His poor wanderer, and had rich and manifold mercies in store for him, as well as some humbling lessons and painful exercises of soul.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Raggedy Ann: Meany milksops.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

He only gets that riled at Mrs. Moore sometimes that he kind of lets off to Yeander and me.'
— from A Dozen Ways Of Love by L. (Lily) Dougall

Though not as absolutely reckless as Molly, Midget was daring enough, and, placing the empty bucket on the very edge of the curb, she put her feet in, and, standing on her toes with her heels against the side of the bucket, she wound her arms about the chain as Molly had done, and twisted about until the bucket fell off the edge.
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

The principal personage was denominated the Abbot of Unreason , because his actings were inconsistent with reason , and merely meant to excite mirth.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

The Yoho glacier is but one half a dozen that flow from the Wapta icefield, and the icefield itself one of many such wide snow-filled basins that lie among the crest of the Main Range of the Rocky mountains and culminate in the great Columbia icefield with an area of 110 square miles of ice and snow, reaching out with numerous ramifications and many magnificent ice-falls.
— from Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks, 2nd. ed. With Notes on Five Great Glaciers of the Canadian National Parks by A. P. (Arthur Philemon) Coleman

With all this he obtained favour and a good repute, and many men attached themselves as much to him as to King Magnus.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson