So it was, however; and to give the demolition more effect, the impotent Couthon was carried from house to house, devoting each to ruin, by striking the door with a silver hammer, and pronouncing these words—"House of a rebel.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The melancholy appearance of some of her guests seemed to add to her sarcastic humour, and perhaps the very cynicism and cruelty of the game proposed by Ferdishenko pleased her.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here again she looked round for a seat to sustain her, and perceived only a dark curtain, which, descending from the ceiling to the floor, was drawn along the whole side of the chamber.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Philip determined to see her, and put himself in possession of the truth, as he suspected it, in order to show Harry his folly.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Mr. Allan says everybody should have a purpose in life and pursue it faithfully.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When Leo means what he says he always puts on a curious look about the mouth.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

That magnificence which had once made him so happy and proud inspired in him now an insurmountable disgust.
— from Fromont and Risler — Volume 4 by Alphonse Daudet

Some interests that the home-amateur takes up as he might take up poker-work or the diversion of jig-saw hold a large part of the hearts and lives of others, [340] and so Dorothy, as she did more or less every week, had been reading her cousin Churchill’s letter, and that of her little niece and namesake Dot, up in Murree, and Eva Woodgate’s, who had sent her a parcel from Kohat, and others.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

She had a personal jealousy of the fame of her superior beauty; and, with such a counsellor as Cecil, it was certain that a selfish and suspicious policy would prevail.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

And every word in every verse, and in its literal meaning, And histories and prophecies and miracles and visions, In spite of learned unbelief,—we hold it all plain truth: Not blindly, but intelligently, after search and study; Hobbes and Paine considered well, and Germany and Colenso ...
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

He appeared well pleased with my resolution, and informed me, that as that was my choice, I should have a piece of land that I could call my own, where I could live unmolested, and have something at my decease to leave for the benefit of my children.
— from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E. (James Everett) Seaver

In a couple of years we shall have a philosophy with all the clearness of geometrical demonstration.”
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

“You could not make out in the least that she had been left in the lurch; and I’m sure she has a plan, by the way in which she desired Jenny and Edie to come.”
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

From the hour of her arrival she had a powerful party to cope with; and the fact of her being an Austrian, independent of the jealousy created by her charms, was, in itself, a spell to conjure up armies, against which she stood alone, isolated in the face of embattled myriads!
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various