Archer, who was not in the mood for the kind of talk they were likely to get there, declined on the plea that he had work to do at home; and Winsett said: "Oh, well so have I for that matter, and I'll be the Industrious Apprentice too.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In some histories I find that thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy fell in the field and in the pursuit, that one thousand two hundred and fifty were taken alive, that twenty-seven military standards were carried off; where, though there may have been some exaggeration in the number, there certainly was great slaughter.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

And so he instantly flew to one frantic plan, which, to a man of Karamazov's character, must have appeared the one inevitable way out of his terrible position.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So have I for this cause decreed To slay the sacrificial steed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But the results of the study were negative, for Silvio had instinctively felt that any attempt to suborn Donna Bianca's maid would almost certainly prove disastrous.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

Horror at the treachery by which she had been victimized; maidenly shame at seeing her innermost feelings thus profaned, and indignation at the consciousness that somebody, whoever it might be, had been made aware how disgracefully she was treated by her family, by her own mother--all these feelings rushed at once upon her like a hurricane, that threatened utterly to overwhelm her.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

"Well," he said, in a very pronounced drawl, "I should have some breakfast if I were you, and see how I felt then.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Well, in Spain he is, for the sport flourishes there still; and one of my recollections of my last day in Madrid is having sacrificed a meal to be present at the Circo de Gallos, the recognised building where combats of the kind are carried on in a well-filled amphitheatre, with roped platform in the centre, and seats in tiers around.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea

And yet we have seen Sir Henry Irving forcing Tennyson’s dramatic poems into a temporary succès d’estime .
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The hepatic system has in fact the same relations as in Fishes.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The second essay might follow the lines of the statuette here illustrated for the three-piece mould.
— from Pottery, for Artists, Craftsmen & Teachers by George James Cox

If he did not come from your study, he issued from that room in which—in which——' She shuddered.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould