His social and ideal passions, his aptitude for art and fancy, will arouse within him a far keener and more varied experience than his outer life can supply.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“He has been conscious a long time, since the morning,” went on Razumihin, whose familiarity seemed so much like unaffected good-nature that Pyotr Petrovitch began to be more cheerful, partly, perhaps, because this shabby and impudent person had introduced himself as a student.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

my air gun was out of order and her sights had been removed by some accedent I put her in order and regulated her.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

That incident for a time restored my nerve, and a porcelain Chinaman on a buhl table, whose head rocked silently as I passed him, scarcely startled me.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Surrounded by all those singular and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Yet too often it would almost seem as if pains had been taken to deprive the material of school observations of all life and dramatic quality, to reduce it to a dead and inert form.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

This disorder is still an important problem, however, in relation to the health of adults in the Tropics, in military expeditions and in Polar explorations.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

But it was not the intention of our adversary to include the second mate in our fate: him he expected to be his drudge in attending the sick and, if possible, his evidence against us: with this view he sounded him afar off, but, finding his integrity incorruptible, harrassed him so much out of spite, that in a short time this mild creature grew weary of his life.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

You've had a toughish time, no doubt, soothing Anatole," I proceeded, helping myself to anchovy paste on toast.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

soere I beare my selfe, As I perchance hereafter shall thinke meet, 215 To put an Anticke disposition on, That you at such times seeing me, neuer shall With Armes, incombred thus, or this head shake, Or by pronouncing some vndoubtfull phrase, As well well, wee know, or wee
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] by William Shakespeare

To push or squeeze, as in packing; hyas mamook kwutl, haul tight.
— from Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs

His old mother came to him sobbing, and wanted to throw herself on his neck; but the old man slowly and imperiously pushed her away with his hand, and proceeded to speak:— "You said a harsh word to me," repeated the old man.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"He is a—" but here he stopped as if paralysis had seized him suddenly.
— from The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon

The Spanish and Italian Peninsulas have had a different history from that which records the career of France, Prussia, the Dutch Commonwealth, the British Empire, the Transatlantic Republic.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

She was the ugliest wench I ever saw, and, if possible, he was uglier, so they were well matched.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Touching the silent, motionless form, in a voice scarcely audible I pronounced her name.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

many times, printed continually, performed over and over again in theatres, in churches, in the public squares, and in private houses.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

As Grimsby asked the question he noted that Mrs. Hampton gave a slight start, and it pleased him.
— from Jess of the Rebel Trail by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody