These ambiguous circumstances, with the stranger's surprise and terror, made Dominicus think of raising a hue-and-cry after him as an accomplice in the murder, since a murder, it seemed, had really been perpetrated.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Had the incident been well known of old and always, it might by this time have grown to be lightly regarded as the rather tall wild oat, but well-nigh the single one, of a young man with whom the steady and mature (if somewhat headstrong) burgher of to-day had scarcely a point in common.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The whole family should be registered: John T. Smith, New York Mrs. Smith, " and maid ( if she has brought one ) Miss Margaret Smith, " John T. Smith, Jr., " Baby and nurse, "
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The Master said, 'A minister, in serving his prince, reverently discharges his duties, and makes his emolument a secondary consideration.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

“There’s only one thing I hate, that at such a moment I should have a reptile like you beside me.” “Oh, that doesn’t matter.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After standing a moment in silence, he said: “From your words I may consequently conclude that a divorce may be obtained?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

" With the same almost morbid intensity, she had afterwards applied herself to sculpture, and had come to Athens in order to study the best works, the masterpieces of Phidias, Scopas, and Praxiteles.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

His progress was anxiously watched as he rose now on the top of a roaring sea, now concealed as he sank into the hollow to appear again on the side of another, all the time buffeting the foaming breakers, now avoiding a mass of timber, now grasping a spar, and making it support him as he forced his way onward, until he was lost to sight in the gloom.
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

It may be well conceived how miserably fallen and corrupt must have been my heart when such purposes were entertained within it; and if, partly through some remains of the holy impressions of my childhood, which still operated on my poor, degraded heart as a kind of habit not yet quite worn off; partly by a sense of the shame and misery I should have before my family and some more whom I knew in the world, who would be themselves most afflicted if they heard of my fall from the good dispositions which they had known in me; partly from a fear of ridicule, even from the profligate, if, after all, I was to fell; partly by the wonderful providence of God,
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

One day, during “this interval after dinner,” which is “passed in study and meditation,” Irving said, “Have you followed out all the story of the Bisbee murderers?”
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

His mother would have been the first to oppose such a marriage if she had been alive.
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

After they had stood a moment in silence he said, “Let us go now,” and when they were riding he added, “We will get down at the end of the street and walk to the shop.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Hastily I changed the subject, feeling that after his wont this old wizard, the most terrible man whom ever I knew, who had been so much concerned with the tragic death of Mameena, was stabbing at me in some hidden fashion.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"I am not very well I don't feel very well," said Fleda, speaking almost mechanically; "I shall have a headache to- morrow."
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

“‘Well, then don’t dream so any more,’ I says huffishly, for I was in a hurry to be off.
— from Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn