If he sent a note then it might fall into her husband's hands and spoil everything.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I will specify their names, &c., towards the close of this chapter, so as not to interrupt my present remarks.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

And then I also wish to see a notary, that I may be assured that all our property returns to Valentine.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But they drink good beverage and sweet and nourishing that is made of gallamelle and that is that men make sugar of, that is of right good savour, and it is good for the breast.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

This is the latest parle we will admit; Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves Or, like to men proud of destruction, Defy us to our worst; for, as I am a soldier, A name that in my thoughts becomes me best, If I begin the batt'ry once again, I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

II The next event that occurred was of so singular a nature that it might have caused me a feeling of superstitious surprise, if my mind had not been fortified by principle against any pagan weakness of that sort.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“You’d better tell me what to drink; such a nasty taste in my mouth, that....” “Brandy’s better than anything,” boomed Yashvin.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A right which may be acquired by possession differs from others simply in being attached to a situation of such a nature that it may be filled successively by different persons, or by any one without regard to the lawfulness of his doing so, as is the case where the situation consists in having a tangible object within one's power.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And I must beg of you to grant me a favour:—If I defend myself in my accustomed manner, and you hear me using the words which I have been in the habit of using in the agora, at the tables of the money-changers, or anywhere else, I would ask you not to be surprised, and not to interrupt me on this account.
— from Apology by Plato

We have attempted to show, however, in another place, that the spiritual body may be of such a nature that it might exist in a temperature so high, or so low, as to prevent the existence of such organic natures as now exist.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

The news from other fronts was of so sinister a nature that it might well have driven even the bravest of men to despair.
— from War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery by Austin Thomas Anderson

But the event was contrary to experience, and of such a nature that it might seem to have been effected by the foresight of some human creature, or rather of the superior powers.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

" The Grand Seignior, to whom I was introduced by the Imperial, Russian, and French ambassadors, employed me to negotiate a matter of great importance at Grand Cairo, and which was of such a nature that it must ever remain a secret.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

One of my first days in Paris I sauntered out to find some American newspapers, that I might know something of what had transpired in America for weeks previous.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

The other side claimed that the clause was intended to refer solely to slaves imported into the United States and not to interstate migration.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

My contrivances are of such a nature, that I must appear to be the most odious of men if I am detected on this side matrimony.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

In a word, ought not the biography of the First Gentleman in Europe to be of such a nature, that it might be read in young ladies’ schools with advantage, and studied with profit in the seminaries of young gentlemen?”
— from The Mentor A little book for the guidance of such men and boys as would appear to advantage in the society of persons of the better sort by Alfred Ayres

Some of them foolishlie suppose the same to haue lien there since Noies floud: and other more fond than the rest, imagine them to grow euen in the places where they find them, without all consideration that in times past, the most part, if not all Lhoegres and Cambria was generallie replenished with wood, which being felled or ouerthrowne vpon sundrie occasions, was left lieng in some places still on the ground, and in processe of time became to be quite ouergrowne with earth and moulds, which moulds wanting their due sadnesse, are now turned into moorie plots.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison