She remained alone, without grieving, moreover, at Henry's absence.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It has been the opinion of many people, that, by proper management, the duties of customs might likewise, without any loss to the public revenue, and with great advantage to foreign trade, be confined to a few articles only.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The people moved rapidly about without giving heed, women came up and after a look of curiosity continued unconcerned on their way—it was such a common sight that their hearts had become callous.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The Swedish king Onund rode across West Gautland the same winter, and had thirty hundred (3600) men with him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Any good college rhetoric also will give help on the subject, especially the works of John Franklin Genung and Adams Sherman Hill.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The student poet, Don Diego's son, who had come out with his mother to receive him, heard this exclamation, and both mother and son were filled with amazement at the extraordinary figure he presented; he, however, dismounting from Rocinante, advanced with great politeness to ask permission to kiss the lady's hand, while Don Diego said, "Senora, pray receive with your wonted kindness Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, whom you see before you, a knight-errant, and the bravest and wisest in the world."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In the first place it was conditional on concessions in the Treaty insuring that "Germany shall retain the territorial integrity corresponding to the Armistice Convention, [140] that she shall keep her colonial possessions and merchant ships, including those of large tonnage, that in her own country and in the world at large she shall enjoy the same freedom of action as all other peoples, that all war legislation shall be at once annulled, and that all interferences during the war with her economic rights and with German private property, etc., shall be treated in accordance with the principle of reciprocity";—that is to say, the offer is conditional on the greater part of the rest of the Treaty being abandoned.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

In half a minute he was in the room, and was giving his evidence as follows: “That door, Sergeant,” he said, “has been painted by Miss Verinder, under my inspection, with my help, and in a vehicle of my own composition.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing; the boat drifted a little towards the ship’s stern; so that, as if by magic, the letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriel’s eager hand.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Sir Charles acted on my advice, pressed his suit, was accepted, explained his own wish to have the marriage concluded as soon as possible, but at the same time saying that on that point as on every other he should wish to consult her feelings in every respect, and was given to understand that her sentiments coincided with his.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

I saw with a sort of colourless interest that the rocks of the basin, where here and there the crackling dry lichens had shrunk away to show them, were all veined and splattered with gold, that here and there bosses of rounded and wrinkled gold projected from among the litter.
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

With regard to mere difference of opinion in taste, convenience, economy, equality, or even right and wrong, good and bad, sanity and insanity—all must be left to the supreme decision of each Individual , whenever he can take on himself the cost of his decisions; which he cannot do while his interests or movements are united or combined with others.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

She ran aground, was gobbled up, with the bright ball-dress balloon, by the delighted Yankees, and that was the last [96] of the pretty things of our sisters, sweethearts, and wives.
— from Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

There he tarried till he thought they had drunk sufficiently, and, finding they were not disposed to go home, he laid down his share of the reckoning, and was going away, but they, being averse to part with him, and resolute in their cups, laid hold on him to stay, but he, being full six feet high, and proportionably strong and vigorous, soon twisted himself out of their gripes, and went off; and came home to his chamber, and went to bed at his usual hour, but, though in good health, he could get no rest till the clock struck one, when he fell asleep, and rested quietly till the morning, when he arose.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

We are to judge with more reverence, and with greater acknowledgment of our own ignorance and infirmity, of the infinite power of nature.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Behind them the fire rose and waved gleaming pennants to the clouds, which reflected the red glow.
— from Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled by Burt L. Standish

I thought we had got off the road and were going towards the Grünhagen quarry, but it is all right, and we can drive on."
— from Castle Hohenwald: A Romance by Adolf Streckfuss

“You told me ‘ Ma drogha ’ was the Polish for ‘My pupil,’ and let me call you so a long time; I am wiser now,” replied Amy, with great dignity.
— from Proverb Stories by Louisa May Alcott