But, although this happy change had a visible effect on the little circle; and although cheerful voices and merry laughter were once more heard in the cottage; there was at times, an unwonted restraint upon some there: even upon Rose herself: which Oliver could not fail to remark.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

"What does all this mean?" "Something rather unusual," said the shadow; "but you are yourself an uncommon man, and you know very well that I have followed in your footsteps ever since your childhood.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I like to get in one of the Fifth avenue stages and ride up, stemming the swift-moving procession.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Mind is the body's entelechy, a value which accrues to the body when it has reached a certain perfection, of which it would be a pity, so to speak, that it should remain unconscious; so that while the body feeds the mind the mind perfects the body, lifting it and all its natural relations and impulses into the moral world, into the sphere of interests and ideas.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I raised up, shook the intruder, and said: “Hello, Ola, what are you doing here?”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Poverty, however, is not the only case in which it is conducive to the general happiness that one man should render unbought services to another.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Had it been possible to adduce fifty instead of five examples of bodies found floating at the end of two or three days, these fifty examples could still have been properly regarded only as exceptions to L’Etoile’s rule, until such time as the rule itself should be confuted.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

It is said that the Governor-General demanded the name of this waggish soldier, with the intention that he might receive punishment for his daring effrontery; but it is needless to say that the author of the joke remained unknown save to a few of his comrades; and the great ruler of Hindostan was forced to rest content and ponder over the hidden sarcasm and bitter irony addressed to one in his exalted position.
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

Since Furnace Creek Inn wanted such attractions for its guests, Gower went immediately and almost within rifle shot of a road used since the Seventies, he found the bridge.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers

They did not claim to secede from Great Britain; they did not claim to make themselves independent of subjection to her rule; they claimed to stop the course of usurpation which, they held, had been commenced; and they proposed to return under subjection to the British crown the very moment that an accommodation should be made, yielding allegiance to the King of Great Britain as in all time before.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

Archambaud came running up, shrilled, "The Amphibs have broken through and are coming down the street!
— from Rastignac the Devil by Philip José Farmer

Mix this with the yolks, rub until smooth, then add one well-beaten egg, and the yolk of one egg.
— from Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by S. T. Rorer

An excited crowd was gathered about the office, through which Harriet forced her way, and rushed up stairs to the door of the room where the fugitive was detained.
— from Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

Now round us spreads the watery plain— Oh might our marges meet again!
— from Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Matthew Arnold

They have a very pleasant look, for they will stop in the road and watch a person very attentively for some time without moving, with their necks raised up, so that it causes laughter to see their serenity; but sometimes they suddenly take fright and run off to inaccessible places with their loads.”
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

Range —United States, to the plains.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan

[Ranke, ubi supra (Treaty is in Adelung, iv.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle