That Sense, is Motion in the organs and interiour parts of mans body, caused by the action of the things we See, Heare, &c.; And that Fancy is but the Reliques of the same Motion, remaining after Sense, has been already sayd in the first and second Chapters.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I would have gone out at the door, but her kinsman ran and set his back against it.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Adam almost shouted, starting up from his chair and making a stride towards the door; but he turned round again, setting his back against the bookcase, and looking fiercely at Mr. Irwine.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

She did the rooms as she had been accustomed to every morning; she swept and dusted, and, towards eight o'clock, prepared M. Lemonnier's breakfast.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Deceived by this intelligence he had concentrated his forces between Vieille-Chapelle and La Venthie; and after a reconnoissance along the entire line, in company with Marshal de Grammont, he had returned and seated himself before a table, with his officers around him.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

But his wife seized on the very first of her maids that entered the room, and smote her breast, and tore her hair, and said, "Alas!
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

About ten persons with reasonable appetites should have been able to sup on what there was; but (how I know not) the whole disappeared, and also two bottles of Chambertin, which I seem to taste now.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And then, as Jurgis came out from this meeting, some one handed him a paper which he carried home with him and read; and so he became acquainted with the “Appeal to Reason.”
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Thenichka retired, and suddenly he became aware of the fact that since the moment when he had sunk into a reverie nightfall had come.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

She hurried across, and reached the house; but Mr. Wingfold had not yet returned, and she hurried back across it again, to tell Leopold that she must go farther to find him.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 by George MacDonald

After this she retired about some housewife business, and left Walter by himself to muse on that he had seen and heard.
— from The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 1 of 2) by James Hogg

The mother was disappointed of her tracheotomy, but when she recovered and saw her baby again, her joy and surprise on seeing that it had grown fat and rosy, almost compensated her for her own disappointment.
— from The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere by M. A. (Mabel Annie) Stobart

The disturbance was caused by a crocodile, evidently a true Papuan and fond of pork, coming up from the river and seeking his breakfast at the expense of [135] the teacher.
— from Papuan Pictures by H. M. Dauncey

Benaiah, however, refused to respect his place of refuge, and shed his blood at the altar.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

In the male and female orphan asylums, which are distinct institutions, endowed by the donations of M. Poydras—in a library for the use of young men, and in her hospitals and various charitable institutions, mostly sustained by Roman Catholic influence and patronage, [Pg 226] whose doors are ever open to the stranger and the moneyless—the poor and the lame—the halt and the blind—and unceasingly send forth, during the fearful scourges which lay waste this ill-fated city, angels of mercy in human forms to heal the sick—comfort the dying—bind up the broken-hearted—feed the hungry, and clothe the naked—in these institutions—the ever living monuments of her humanity—New-Orleans, reviled as she has been abroad, holds a high rank among the cities of Christendom.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Don’t, Your Honor, when they don’t show an incriminating circumstance, don’t put the stigma of guilt upon this woman, reared as she has been and with a past character beyond reproach.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

That the monthly pay of the enlisted men of the Line of the Regular Army shall hereafter be as follows: Regimental Sergeant Major and Quartermaster Sergeant, $90, less the actual cost of his subsistence and clothing.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

For the complete man— totus homo —has feelings as well as reason, and should have both active, in fine training, to realise the best of him.
— from Poetry by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Here Mr. Rose and Sam have been away all day, an' I've been makin' currant-jell' out in the kitchen.
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman