Better to shoot him in the leg or hand, wound him, then laugh at him, and let him, like an insect with a broken leg lost in the grass—let him be lost with his obscure sufferings in the crowd of insignificant people like himself.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" "She had, I think, a bundle, though I couldn't see very well," said a female voice from another window, which seemed that of Maryann.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

We cruised about for several hours in the dense fog.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

“Your stable,” said he, “is there—your bed there; and,” reaching down a platter with two handfuls of parched pease upon it from the neighbouring shelf, and placing it upon the table, he added, “your supper is here.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And so, I protest, he was going!—Dear sirs, how I trembled!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

That is the great advantage of dialogue on horseback; it can be merged any minute into a trot or a canter, and one might have escaped from Socrates himself in the saddle.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In the second place, it will be well if you were also to treat servants here in the same way as in the other mansion, and not be too scrupulous in the fear that any one might take offence.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

One important lesson which the history of moral philosophy teaches is that, in this region, even powerful intellects are liable to acquiesce in tautologies of this kind; sometimes expanded into circular reasonings, sometimes hidden in the recesses of an obscure notion, often lying so near the surface that, when once they have been exposed, it is hard to understand how they could ever have presented themselves as important.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

A musketeer, one of the two farmers who had brought in the news of the rebels' advance, was drawing water from the well in the courtyard when a shot struck him in the forehead, laying him out dead beside the bucket he had just raised.
— from The Young Cavalier: A Story of the Civil Wars by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"At the age of thirteen the record for travel and adventure stands highest in the case of the boys, phenomenally so.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

Stray in the herd and the boss said kill it, Shot him in the ear with the handle of the skillet!
— from Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Here is one, from one of the scholars he taught: "I first saw Hartley in the beginning, I think, of 1837, when I was at Sedbergh, and he heard us our lesson in Mr. Green's parlor.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

A literature which in the same years could produce work so utterly antagonistic in superficial sentiment, and yet so harmonious in their common sincerity and loftiness of feeling, is a literature from which riches may come.”
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

And so the enterprise was launched, and conducted thus: in the day time, Henry showed himself in the town, and talked big about carving; and, in the afternoon, he rode out, and did the real work of his life, over the dead bodies of his ancestors.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

She had imagined that the fiancé would be the curate, the doctor, the manager of the branch bank—never for one moment had it entered her mind to think of Dane Peignton filling the rôle.
— from Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.