She had never been quite well since the time of their daughter's marriage; and till she should have completely recovered her usual strength, they must forbid her engaging in duties, which, so far from being compatible with a weakened frame and varying spirits, seemed, under the most favourable circumstances, to require something more than human perfection of body and mind to be discharged with tolerable comfort.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

At this some six duennas, advancing across the court, made their appearance in procession, one after the other, four of them with spectacles, and all with their right hands uplifted, showing four fingers of wrist to make their hands look longer, as is the fashion now-a-days.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Try to realize that in the perpetual admission of guilt she probably finds some dreadful unnatural satisfaction—as though she were revenging herself upon someone.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

0% 3% 6% 9% 12% 15% Figuring Costs and Profits While the cost of conducting a retail grocery business naturally varies according to local conditions and the size of the enterprise, an investigation among some 250 stores in small and large cities made in 1919 by the Bureau of Business Research, Harvard University, showed that the average cost was fourteen percent; that the net profit averaged two and three-tenths percent; and that stock was turned about seven times a year.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

His wounds were healed, and it was evident that he would not be long in regaining his usual strength and agility.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

So, placing the candle with great caution on a chair, she seized the key with a very tremulous hand and tried to turn it; but it resisted her utmost strength.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Anna having recovered her usual state of calmness, descended likewise to help at the pious work.
— from Tales of My Native Town by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The cough was better, the dog ate well, and had regained his usual spirits.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

In such cases, when he rises he usually says, "Mr. Chairman, I rise to a point of order."
— from Robert's Rules of Order Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Robert

Moreover, Mrs. Treharne would have found it difficult, unless there were some grave actual peril, to mention Jesse's name in a letter to her daughter; for it brought the blood to her face to remember how unconcernedly she had permitted Louise to meet the man—how she had even chided her daughter for not having accepted Jesse's attentions in a more pliant, not to say grateful, spirit.
— from The Eddy: A Novel of To-day by Clarence Louis Cullen

And so saying Mr Daggles resumed his usual seat in the dining-room, and went on with the perusal of the Morning Post .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

This young lady was full of meditation on her new conquest, and the manner in which she should receive the victim, who was so shortly to prostrate himself at the shrine of her beauty, when she heard somebody run hastily up stairs, and go into Lady Mellasin's dressing-room, which being adjacent, as has been already taken notice of on a very remarkable occasion, she stepped out of the chamber to see who was there, and found Mrs. Prinks very busy at a cabinet, where her ladyship's jewels were always kept: 'So, Mrs. Prinks,' said she, 'is my lady come home?'—'No, Miss,' replied the other; 'her ladyship is certainly the most compassionate best woman in the world: her cousin is very bad indeed, and she has sent me for a bottle of reviving drops, which I am going back to carry.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

She is elegantly dressed in white and, though she has recovered her usual stateliness and composure, is a picture of radiant happiness. Ottoline.
— from The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

The English during the great retreat had rendered her unforgettable services.
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke

"Amazonian" and "Transcendent," however, he applied exclusively to himself, to indicate that in absolutely every respect he unapproachably surpassed all mankind.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Our son being nearest, we went to him first, to Portsmouth, where we met with him, and with the major also, who told us he had done what he could, but could not redeem him under seven pounds, which the good people thereabouts were pleased to pay.
— from Captives Among the Indians by Mary White Rowlandson