Vives assureth us, innumerable records, histories, and testimonies evince in all ages, times, places, and
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Cedric, though surprised, and perhaps not altogether agreeably so, at his ward appearing in public on this occasion, hastened to meet her, and to conduct her, with respectful ceremony, to the elevated seat at his own right hand, appropriated to the lady of the mansion.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But it must be considered, that the price of any instrument of husbandry, such as a labouring horse, is itself made up of the same time parts; the rent of the land upon which he is reared, the labour of tending and rearing him, and the profits of the farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, and the wages of this labour.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I could get nobody till five minutes ago; and I've run here all the way.'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

No one at all acquainted with this work of Arrian’s can refuse his assent to the opinion of Photius (p. 73; comp.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

no ricaras had accompanied them but were all at home, they also informed us that no trader had arived at the Ricaras this Season, and that they were informed that the Pania or Ricara Chief who went to the United States last Spring was a year, died on his return at Smoe place near the Sieoux river &c. those men had nether powder nor lead we gave them a horn of powder and Some balls and after a delay of an hour we parted from the 2 men Reevey & Grienway and proceeded on.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Had Smerdyakov killed and robbed him, and the son been accused of it, that would, of course, have suited Smerdyakov.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Not surely her cousin Hepzibah's, who had no taste nor spirits for the lady-like employment of cultivating flowers, and—with her recluse habits, and tendency to shelter herself within the dismal shadow of the house—would hardly have come forth under the speck of open sky to weed and hoe among the fraternity of beans and squashes.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His natural timidity rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain degree.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Christian now went to the spring, and drank thereof to refresh himself, and then began to go up the hill, saying: "The hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend, For I perceive the way to life lies here.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

“Is he all right now?” “Charley’s all right; he ate too many wild gooseberries.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

I must write to him and try to reassure him about this.
— from A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith

Of the Mission system in California, and its results. H2 anchor THE FAMOUS MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA.
— from The Famous Missions of California by William Henry Hudson

And she flew to the door, but it resisted her attempts to open it.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Take a seat by the fire,” and as Philippa murmured her thanks and glanced round her at the neat, comfortable little room, Mrs Shepton, for such was her name, went on with increasing kindliness of tone, as she saw that the girl seemed young, and suspected that she was timid.—“It is long past tea-time, of course, but I have ordered a little for you.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

Others stood firm on their legs, waiting with raised heads and threatening mien for the rash being to approach them.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Sir Rowland Hill and the English railway nationalizers proposed that the State should own the lines, but that the companies should continue to work them; Rodbertus's idea, on the contrary, is that the State should work, but not own.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

"Why, that hill seems as if it were right here and the view is much brighter.
— from Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope by Victor Appleton

His chief claim to recognition, however, and the one which has placed him at the head of contemporary metaphysics, is the work already mentioned, in which, somewhat after the manner of his [Pg 171] predecessor, and yet with a diffuseness of argument which had no part in Schopenhauer's system, he reduces the motor forces of the universe to a dual principle which he terms the Unbewussten , or the Unconscious.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus