I could have said hundreds of unpleasant things about this tadpole, but I did not even feel them.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine

She hurried on up the ascent of the Boulevard of the Botanic Garden on her way to the Rue Royale.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

In describing the actual condition of Spain, he once uttered this authoritative phrase: ‘Clericalism in the zenith, immorality in high places, the debt floating more every day,...’”
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

The principal cannot terminate the relation so as to leave the agent under obligations to third persons, thereby shifting his obligations upon the agent; nor can he do so when the agent has an interest in the [Pg 149] subject-matter of the agency.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

"It is most unfortunate that it should have happened just now," she said, as I wrestled with one of those remarkable feminine knots that, while they seem to defy the utmost efforts of human ingenuity to untie, yet have a singular habit of untying themselves at inopportune moments.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Perhaps, however, that statement held only up to a certain point, for John Bodman had reached a state of mind in which he resolved to get rid of his wife at all hazards.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

He put himself at the head of the workers, and on the [63] ninth day of September had the singular happiness of uncovering the ancient sarcophagus which held the venerated body.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall