Why did you pay such a price for that girl's liberty?"
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

There he found the eleven at high jinks after supper, Jack Raggles shouting comic songs and performing feats of strength, and was greeted by a chorus of mingled remonstrance at his desertion and joy at his reappearance.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

When this was done the gardener said: "My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry off this treasure as secretly as possible for fear of losing it.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

It shows a peasant family welcoming home the father, who has been made a Hero of Labor.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

There was some talk, even then, of skirting the rock wall and seeking a possible footway up, but the marshy jungle made that method look not only difficult but dangerous.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Bills for a huge amount drawn by the governor upon the Treasury were dishonored, the land company’s credit went up in smoke, a panic followed, values fell with a rush, the frightened immigrants seized their gripsacks and fled to other lands, leaving behind them a good imitation of a solitude, where lately had been a buzzing and populous hive of men.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

"Wouldn't it give you a rather pleasing sensation to think of people you didn't know and had never seen receiving emotions, subtle and passionate, from the work of your hands?
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I mean the court--whereat he staid, And plans for seizing Fortune laid.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The Ripley gunners, unseasoned artillery volunteers who ought never to have been placed in such a position, fired one wild, premature, ineffectual volley, and bolted on horse and foot through the deserted village, while the Martian, without using his Heat-Ray, walked serenely over their guns, stepped gingerly among them, passed in front of them, and so came unexpectedly upon the guns in Painshill Park, which he destroyed.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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— from Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume I) by William Black

Half an hour later he emerged from the car's eclipse and sank, a pitiable figure, upon the grass beside Esther.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

It was sunset when they began making their first camp in a cedar thicket, where David shot a porcupine for Tara and Baree.
— from The Courage of Marge O'Doone by James Oliver Curwood

Father couldn't go out much—he has been so busy with his hay, and Leon is such a poor fisherman."
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On the present occasion the little field was full of horsemen, moving about slowly, chatting together, smoking cigars, getting off from their hacks and mounting their hunters, giving orders to their servants, and preparing for the day.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

If she had felt called of God to such a work,—if she had laid herself as a sacrifice upon the Divine Altar, that would be very different, for the Master would give no task without imparting strength and patience for its fulfilment.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

[104] Such a presupposed fixed self is to be found in Green's "Eternally complete Consciousness."
— from John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard