Gardening books and the agricultural hints in calendars were his delight, his favourite spiritual sustenance; he enjoyed reading newspapers, too, but the only things he read in them were the advertisements of so many acres of arable land and a grass meadow with farm-houses and buildings, a river, a garden, a mill and millponds, for sale.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She had early resolved not to throw away either herself or her chances.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

When she and Mrs. Stanton asked him for space in the Tribune to advocate woman suffrage as well as Negro suffrage, he emphatically replied, "No!
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

“But he will see his error,” reflected Nick, [126] sending out the ringing blast by which he had summoned his friend many a time; “he doesn’t like to own up, but, when he looks upon this, he can’t help himself.”
— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

It beat all the novels she had ever read, not that she had read novels much, although some of them were good as well as bad, but she felt that too many of them were hurtful; of course, she meant if taken immoderately, but people were always taking things so immoderately.
— from Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Slowly he plodded on through the snow, his eyes raised now and again to the light of the heating stove in the church house. Arrived at the door he stomped the snow from his well-greased boots and went in.
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

At any rate, it would have saved his English readers no small trouble and confusion, if Weismann had added notes to the translations of his essays on Polar Bodies , on The Significance of Sexual Reproduction , and on Amphimixis , to the effect that he had abandoned some of their most distinctive features before the translations had gone to press.
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

and I alike have seen, His ekimmu rests not in the earth.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce