Every room in the house was changed, besides the one of which Mrs. Hepworth spoke, which had been Mr. Hale's study formerly; and where the green gloom and delicious quiet of the place had conduced, as he had said, to a habit of meditation, but, perhaps, in some degree to the formation of a character more fitted for thought than action.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I bring romance into the homes of all sorts of people.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Men who cannot control their own coolies are little respected in the Hills, and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Had he been untrammelled by his nephew, Granada might have remained in the hands of the Moors during his life, though nothing could have prevented the final triumph of the Christians.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Neither of them ever imagined that they were looked at with repulsion; if they had imagined it they would not have minded—so long as their superiors did not look at them in that way.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Run into the house.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"How we agreed to join fortunes: how we came up to town together, where we lived some time, till necessity-parted us, and drove me into this course of life, to which I had been long ago bettered and torn to pieces before I came to this age, as much through my easiness, as through inclination, had it not been for my finding refuge in this house: these are all circumstances which pass the mark I proposed, so that here my narrative ends.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

We have an account of a spark falling from a star, and increasing as it approached the earth, until it became of the size of the moon, shining as through a cloud 313 ; it afterwards returned into the heavens and was converted into a lampas ; this occurred in the consulship of Cn.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He must remain in this house.
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon

It had an atmosphere different from that of any other room in the house, and no one but herself was likely to enter it.
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr

"I shall then call witnesses to prove that, on the fifteenth of October, the bridge over the mere was in bad repair, and a portion of the side rail gone; and that the body was found within a few yards of that defective bridge; and then, as Thomas Leicester went that way, drunk, and staggering from side to side, you may reasonably infer that he fell into the water in passing the bridge.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

He was by no means displeased with this discovery, as he had the comfort of reflecting that he should not be obliged to lay out anything on furniture himself—. He returned immediately to his Brother, who took him the next day to every Shop in Town, and bought what ever was requisite to furnish the two rooms and the Closet, In a few days everything was completed, and Wilhelminus returned to take possession of his Cottage.
— from Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen

In this emergency the Swedish general submitted to a capitulation, by which his infantry were transported by sea to Sweden; his cavalry marched by land to Abo; and his artillery and magazines remained in the hands of the Russians.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

At the most, he may have revised a few scenes and added touches here and there, but in no other way is he responsible for this revolting and barbarous play, doubtless written by some popular dramatist to please the ears and eyes of the groundlings, who simply revelled in these horrors, without ever being satiated, the appetite growing by what it fed on.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

They ran to meet him, and the man said something to them about rooms in their head.
— from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

So without having to search for any particular article, she read it to him from beginning to end.
— from Nobody's Girl (En Famille) by Hector Malot