“This conjuror,” says he, “who is afraid of a child’s competition and preaches to his tutor is the sort of person we meet with in the world in which Emile and such as he are living.”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She felt as though, not only the people, but even the horses and dogs were staring at her and laughing at the plainness of her clothes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She and her aunt lived in her father's house with a sort of voluntary humility, not putting themselves on an equality with other people.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

VVee’ll ſee her Sir, at home, and leaue you here, To be made Duke o’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Vera Iosifovna read how a beautiful young countess founded a school, a hospital, a library, in her village, and fell in love with a wandering artist; she read of what never happens in real life, and yet it was pleasant to listen—it was comfortable, and such agreeable, serene thoughts kept coming into the mind, one had no desire to get up.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

cially in summer, when she could sit on a grassy hollow under the shadow of a branching ash, stooping aslant from the steep above her, and listen to the hum of insects, like tiniest bells on the garment of Silence, or see the sunlight piercing the distant boughs, as if to chase and drive home the truant heavenly blue of the wild hyacinths.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

He wanted her to stay at home and look after his house.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

"Excuse me, my dear aunt," added Mrs. Ch'in, "that I can't go with you; but when you have nothing to do, I entreat you do come over and see me! and you and I can sit and have a long chat."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This is pointed at by his ordinance that the bride and bridegroom should be shut in the same room and eat a quince together, and that the husband of an heiress should approach her at least thrice in each month.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“They got something to do besides stand around here and listen at you throwin' campaign loads.
— from Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower

This view is no longer tenable; whatever the precise origin of the musical notes of animals may be,—and it is not necessary to suppose that sexual attraction had a large part in their first rudimentary beginnings,—there can now be little doubt that musical sounds, and, among birds, singing, play a very large part indeed in bringing the male and the female together.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

The ground around the edges of the heap is made smooth and hard and loose straw is placed in small windrows around the manure pile about 1 foot from the edge.
— from The House Fly and How to Suppress It by F. C. (Fred Corry) Bishopp

Being an expert shot, and having a long-range repeating rifle, he "stood off" the savages till dark.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6 by Philip Henry Sheridan

"But if I stayed at home, and lived on you, Dudley, I should feel I had to improve my mind by way of making you some return; and you can’t think how dreadfully my mind hates the idea of being improved.
— from Winding Paths by Gertrude Page

she asked him, at last, when she had waited vainly for him to break the silence.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

And when Maria at last rejoined the Queen she told her how, having once taken her away from the Castel dell’ Uovo on his flagship, the Admiral, instead of sailing in the wake of the rest of the fleet, had shaped his course for Marseilles; how he had tried to compel her to marry his son, and how at length the sailors, learning of it, and angered at his attempt to make the coast of France instead of following the Queen, had broken into mutiny on coming within sight of the ships at Gaeta.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

A great shock at his age lasts for the remainder of life, and he’ll nurse his grief till it lays him in the grave.” “Then there must be a marriage?” “Some sort of marriage, Irish or Scotch, they have them of all sorts and complexions; but English law smashes them, just to show these poor Celts in what a barbarism they are living, and that even their most solemn contracts are a farce, if not ratified by us here.”
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever