en avait:” she was sure they would never appear to him, nor ever give him rings, or offer to live with him in the moon.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Latterly, there were rumors (which few believed, and only one or two felt greatly interested in) that this long-buried man was likely, for some reason or other, to be summoned forth from his living tomb.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"But I do not see how we can stop just now; for we might alight in a river, or on, the top of a steeple; and that would be a great disaster."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And in Rome of old, through the influence of a similar sacred regard for the past, the lowly cottage of Romulus was long protected in a similar manner.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

↑ 6 It is hardly necessary perhaps to make it quite clear that all questions of origins, of development or history of the institutions have been rigorously ruled out of this work.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Before closing this chapter, I must record one or two minor events that occurred about this time, that may prove of interest.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As for those that ran out of the village, they stirred up such as were in the country, and exaggerating their own calamities, and telling them that the whole army of the Romans were upon them, they put them into great fear on every side; so they got in great numbers together, and fled to Jericho, for they knew no other place that could afford them any hope of escaping, it being a city that had a strong wall, and a great multitude of inhabitants.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But if they are not sincere, and are merely trying to fool Republicans out of their votes, they will grow very anxious about your pecuniary prospects; they are afraid you are going to get broken up and ruined; they do not care about Democratic votes, oh, no, no, no!
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

We started the engines, and, sure enough, the bows of the vessel began to rise out of the water.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

In the first place, he took great care to turn the idea of Lord Dewry and his rudeness out of the castle, being a great economizer of pleasant thoughts; and then, with somewhat of a sigh (the sort of semi-singultus which people give to something irremediable in their own fate, while contemplating the state of another), he thought, "De Vaux is a very happy man!
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But recess! Was ever any enjoyment so keen as that with which a boy rushes out of the schoolhouse door for the ten minutes of recess?
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

Presently the mother quietly slipped from her chair and went into an adjoining room, out of the baby's sight.
— from Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor

They crossed the freshly-sodded belt and when Mordaunt stopped on the terrace Bernard said: "It will not be your job to roll out our tracks.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

One of the many men who were perched in the rigging or outside the rails lost his hold, and in the same second was wriggling in the water.
— from The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young

And she ran out of the stall and hurried into the yard.
— from The Tale of Henrietta Hen by Arthur Scott Bailey

"You can't have the same tastes and—and likings as people have just because you happen to be some relation or other to them.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

The advent of the electric search-light has driven from the river one of the most picturesque of all the accessories to such scenes as we boys looked down upon, night after night, during the busy times of 1854 and 1855, before I myself became part and parcel of it all.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick