But she saw the nose was rather thick, rather Russian, under its transparent skin, she remembered the teeth under the carefully cut moustache were small and sharp and spaced.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Every day.’ ‘Ah, but you mean here, at your own home?’ ‘Papa couldn’t spare me to go anywhere else,’ she answered, smiling and shaking her head.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It is easy for book-makers to say “I thought so and so as I looked upon such and such a scene”—when
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The boys had never been inside the storehouse, so wondered where all the corn and beans could come from, as the house was not a very large one; so as soon as Selu went out of the door the Wild Boy said to his brother, “Let’s go and see what she does.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Not in disharmony with these, if we understood them, but in harmony!—I cannot call this Shakspeare a "Sceptic," as some do; his indifference to the creeds and theological quarrels of his time misleading them.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

With these facts before me, I believe that natural selection, by acting on the fertile parents, could form a species which should regularly produce neuters, either all of large size with one form of jaw, or all of small size with jaws having a widely different structure; or lastly, and this is our climax of difficulty, one set of workers of one size and structure, and simultaneously another set of workers of a different size and structure;—a graduated series having been first formed, as in the case of the driver ant, and then the extreme forms, from being the most useful to the community, having been produced in greater and greater numbers through the natural selection of the parents which generated them; until none with an intermediate structure were produced.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

With earnestness and pains, She stretches, swells, and strains, And says, 'Sis Frog, look here!
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Sheath and spathe are swathed for the greater part of their length in a thick covering of leaves or fibre; the ends are still cut off twice or three times a day, but, after each operation, are smeared with a paste made of leaves and water with the object, it is said, of keeping the sap from oozing through the wound and rotting the spathe.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in their hands, men time his rate as doctors that of a baby’s pulse; and lightly say of it, the up train or the down train will reach such or such a spot, at such or such an hour; even so, almost, there are occasions when these Nantucketers time that other Leviathan of the deep, according to the observed humor of his speed; and say to themselves, so many hours hence this whale will have gone two hundred miles, will have about reached this or that degree of latitude or longitude.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

"Of course, I am somewhat annoyed," said Ackworth, slowly, "at least, I would be, were you an ordinary woman.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

It took a little hunting about and asking to find it; and then Mrs. Cobbes was stout and slow, and seemed to need an eternity of time to wrap up their purchases in an old piece of newspaper.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

Not much had been seen or heard of Grundle during the match, and as far as Eva was concerned, he had succumbed as soon as Sir Kennington Oval had appeared upon the scene.
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

Human property is high in the market; and is, therefore, well fed, well cleaned, tended, and looked after, that it may come to sale sleek, and strong, and shining.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But although London can stand a good deal in the cause of resupply and novelty, the violence of Mrs. Tippett's accent, and the terrible solecisms of a gentleman whose education had begun in a Lancashire alley and finished in the business purlieus of Chicago, who had acquired the American vice of brag in its acutest form, and who, when in his cups, shouted and spat and swore, were more than the most enterprising among them had been called upon to endure.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

At four o'clock came sleep and silence and serenity, with Carol on the floor, clutching David's hand, which even in sleep she did not resign.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston

A Chinaman does not grab the bit of a broncho and yank it around till the noble beast can see thirteen new and peculiar kinds of fire-works, or kick him in the stomach, or knock his ribs loose, or swear at him until the firmament gets loose and begins to roll together like a scroll, but he gets on [Pg 118] the wrong side and slides into the saddle and smiles and says something like what a guinea hen would say if she got excited and tried to repeat one of Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson's poems backward in his native tongue.
— from Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye

He seemed to realize that he had made a fool of himself in uttering such a sentence, and stopped speaking, for a moment.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

Neilstrom talked to him of ships and shoes and sealing-wax and the thousand and one things men will discuss in their loneliness and frustration, including—inevitably—their reasons for being here.
— from This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch