It is on her account that attention to Randalls is doubly due, and she must doubly feel the omission.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

A minute might have passed, but the sounds were already receding in different directions, and gradually losing their distinctness beneath the echoing arches of the woods.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The austerest form of naked majesty, Thou who beheldest, mid the assassins' din, At thy bathed base the bloody Caesar lie, Folding his robe in dying dignity, An offering to thine altar from the queen Of gods and men, great Nemesis!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

On opposite principles its action is still more rapid; it divides, distributes, and disperses both property and power.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The expression of this sentiment was fiercely written in his face, and stood thus revealed to 230 Roxana by a white glare of lightning which turned the somber dusk of the room into dazzling day at that moment.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

He, good soul! thought all was right, while they have been going on, as you know very well, running into debt deeper and deeper.
— from I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

[72] It is somewhat disheartening, however, to find Professor Marshall, who has pointed out the confusion on the part of Jevons, allowing his marginal notes to speak of "utility and cost" when the body of the text, to which they refer, is discussing demand and supply.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

The reason seems to be that her head was turned by her fame as a moralist and exponent of culture; so she forgot that she "was born to please," and attempted something else for which she had no particular ability: an historical novel in Romola , a drama in The Spanish Gypsy , a theory of social reform in Felix Holt , a study of the Hebrew race in Daniel Deronda , a book of elephantine gambols in The Opinions of Theophrastus Such .
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

People read, in different degrees, according to their private tastes.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

After the sixth or eighth snubbing he rose in dudgeon, discharged a poisonous bit of insolence, and retired to his berth, leaving Kirkwood to finish his breakfast in peace; which the latter did literally, to the last visible scrap of food and the ultimate drop of coffee, poor as both were in quality.
— from The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

Jacques had evidently not thought it likely that his note would reach its destination directly, and hence it might be fairly presumed that he had written for the eyes of justice as well as for his lady-love.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

It is at once beautiful in form, rich in decorative detail, and satisfyingly warm in color.
— from An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery by Sheldon Cheney