I don't mind a prom or a football game, but staying away from advantageous parties to eat in little cafes down-town with Tom, Dick, and Harry— ROSALIND: (Offering her code, which is, in its way, quite as high as her mother's) Mother, it's done—you can't run everything now the way you did in the early nineties.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

So Sir Balin rode and overtook the knight in a forest with a damsel, and said, “Sir knight, thou must come back with me unto my lord, King Arthur, to tell him the cause of thy sorrow, which thou hast refused even now to do.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

a dog came to us this morning, which we supposed to have been lost by the Indians who were recently encamped near the lake that we passed yesterday.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But people of every school would agree that it is no exuberance of rhetoric, it is only sober truth to say that the persevering absorption and incorporation of all this ceaseless torrent of heterogenous elements into one united, stable, industrious, and pacific State is an achievement that neither the Roman Empire nor the Roman Church, neither Byzantine Empire nor Russian, not Charles the Great nor Charles the Fifth nor Napoleon ever rivaled or approached.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But Alexander remained encamped near the 28 Cadmea, for he still wished rather to come to friendly terms with the Thebans than to come to a contest with them.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

There he was, going into that small, uncomfortable room every night, that room whose proximities had been Lotty's only misgiving, and coming out of it in the morning, and Lotty coming out of it too, both of them as unclouded and as nice to each other as when they went in.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

His good looks are really quite remarkable; everybody notices them.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In fact, this nearly exact balancing between the supply of sediment and the amount of subsidence is probably a rare contingency; for it has been observed by more than one palaeontologist that very thick deposits are usually barren of organic remains, except near their upper or lower limits.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The place chosen was a convenient spot among the pens, at the north side of the fair, not so far distant as to be impervious to the agreeable hubbub of that vanity; but remote enough not to be obvious to the interruption of every gaping spectator in it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But sometimes she had to keep her eyes open; Suzanne paid her a visit, and remained embroidering near the counter all the afternoon.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

The will, which is the central force of character, must be trained to habits of decision—otherwise it will neither be able to resist evil nor to follow good.
— from Character by Samuel Smiles

He slaves at the office all day, earning a living for those dependent on him, and when he comes home he may reasonably expect not to be bothered with domestic business.
— from Once a Week by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Did you ever git hit in the eye with a ripe egg?" "Not that I recollect'.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Beyond a certain set firmness of his lips that had never been there before, however, when he stepped outside his tent, Sir Richard exhibited no traces of the fierce battle that had been waged within him.
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley

Through the general roar of wind and water and rain every now then came a sharper sound, like a report or crack, followed by a strange low thunder, as it seemed.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

"What do you know, Joseph?" asked Sir Ralph, edging nearer to the door.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Protestants, and the remnant of Catholics (remnant naturally rather expanding now that the Court shone on it), were allowed to live in peace, according to the Treaty of Westphalia, or nearly so; dividing the churches and church-revenues equitably between them, as directed there.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle