Smiling Plenty, as if conjured by some enchanter, has returned; scatters contentment from her new-flowing horn.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Then, as his passion was short-lived, like that of most good-tempered men, and his strength was soon exhausted, he remained standing between the two, panting, worn out, not knowing what to do next.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

… But never in the thousand years of its senseless existence had Russia sunk to such ignominy.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By these, and similar arguments to the same effect, he roused such a strong feeling in the minds of Scopas and his 281 friends, that, without waiting for a meeting of the Aetolian federal assembly, and without communicating with the Apocleti or taking any of the proper constitutional steps, of their own mere impulse and opinion they committed acts of hostility simultaneously against Messenia, Epirus, Achaia, Acarnania, and Macedonia.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Strange enough, his reverence seemed to take no particular notice of me, nor of my coming.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Women and children trusted him implicitly, though, strangely enough, he rather shunned them, except when anyone was sick, and then he made his appearance to help if he could, timidly and awkwardly.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

This scarcity gave him the early habit of studying everything he read, so that when he got through with a book, he knew everything in it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

When she entered his room she pretended that the boy was still alive and even much better, and when her husband constantly asked how the lad was getting on, she replied: "He has had a good sleep, and has taken food with a good appetite."
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

i)—why the two elements should not to some extent have run side by side, or been fused with each other.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

When she entered his room she found him sitting up in bed with burning cheeks and coughing violently.
— from The Elixir by Georg Ebers

She was replete, according to the same authoress, with goodness and with justice; she was neither suspicious, nor easily led wrong by persuasion; and where endeavours were made to prejudice her against any one whom she esteemed, her resistance showed the strength of her attachment.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The family with whom he lodged at Eppendorf strongly engaged his religious sympathy.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

"Then what in the mischief do you fellows look so serious about, that's what I want to know?" demanded Matty, whose sharp eyes had read something in their manner that told him everything was not as serene as outward conditions would seem to imply.
— from Great Hike; or, The Pride of the Khaki Troop by Douglas, Alan, Captain

When she entered her room, she saw that one of the windows was open, and she stood a moment or two at it, looking across the straight miles of white lights, in whose illumined shadows thousands of sleepers were holding their lives in pause.
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr