Again, of the goods which have reference to the mind, some are habits, some are dispositions, and some are neither habits nor dispositions.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I was myself looking out of the study window, having a smoke after dinner, and saw one of them come up to the house.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Nobody can steer a donkey, and some collided with camels, dervishes, effendis, asses, beggars and every thing else that offered to the donkeys a reasonable chance for a collision.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so close around her, would not remove and take other shapes, like the clouds in the sky, and draw aside, so that she might cast a glance into Paris, and over it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A store of tales I shall relate,-- Say there I lodged at such a date, And saw there such and such a sight.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

She was a fearless and familiar little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, made precocious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

“All like two bears they wrestle, On hills of snow; and draw And strain, each like an eagle On the angry sea at war.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

So I said she must stop swearing and drinking, and smoking and eating for four days, and then she would be all right again.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Sentley, as did all save Cunwell, resented this wrangling.
— from The Gunroom by Charles Morgan

It does not show what has been done in the way of furnishing information and argument, refutation and data, material and articles for the press or for special articles, debates, and speeches.
— from The Torch Bearer A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement by Agnes E. Ryan

The sea was now strong, and deep, and swift of pace, rushing madly in; and he was cumbered with that weight of osier and of weed, which yet he never yielded, because it had been her trust.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

"Before your coming, all was so still and dark, and scarcely a sound could be heard in the rooms or halls all day.
— from Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman

A loud shriek from the lady interrupted him: then all was as still as death; and suddenly steps came rapidly down the stairs, and a young man came out, sobbing, and, jumping into a carriage which was standing near, drove rapidly away.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

As soon after dinner as she could escape from Miss Fortune's calls upon her, Ellen stole up to her room and her books, and began work in earnest.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Shortly afterwards, dysenteries and slow fevers appeared, and so violent were the symptoms that the ship was a complete hospital, those who were able to move about being insufficient to attend to the sick in their hammocks.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Caravans daily arrive from Persia, bringing raw silks and drugs, and ships from Europe with cochineal, indigo, &c.; but the most remarkable commodity in which the English trade, is fruit.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

Suppose that man has not fallen , but that the race has been rising these many centuries; and that while we have mainly to save ourselves, all the good and great men of all ages have aided us in the work of salvation by what they have said and done and suffered, so that instead of one savior we really have had many saviors.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook