He had been Senator since 1849, when his responsibilities as leader had separated him from the Free Soil contingent, for, in the dry light of the first Free Soil faith, the ways of New York politics Thurlow Weed had not won favor; but the fierce heat which welded the Republican Party in 1856 melted many such barriers, and when Mr. Adams came to Congress in December, 1859, Governor Seward instantly renewed his attitude of family friend, became a daily intimate in the household, and lost no chance of forcing his fresh ally to the front.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

"Oh, I've heard it ever since I remember," he answered crossly.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The privilege of his character furnished him with opportunities to lay snares for her virtue, and, taking advantage of that listlessness, languor, and indolence of the spirits, by which all the vigilance of the soul is relaxed, he, after a long course of attention and perseverance, found means to make shipwreck of her peace.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Jesusjack the child is a black the last time I was there a squad of them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ears supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have us swollen out like elephants or I dont know what supposing I risked having another not off him though still if he was married
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

She instituted regular hours and employments for her, and undertook to teach her to read and sew.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

To Savill the painter’s, but he not being well I could do nothing there, and so I returned home, and in my way met Mr. Moore and took him with me home; where we staid and talked all the morning, and he dined with me, and after dinner went away to the Privy Seal, this being our first day this month.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There is a greater kind than the ordinary sort found wild with us, which so abides, being brought into gardens, and differs not from it, but only in the largeness of the leaves and stalks, in rising higher, and not creeping upon the ground so much.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

"Well may I be shaken," I replied, "happy as I am.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At last, after one of the most tedious days I have ever spent, I returned home and went to bed, laughing at the experience I had undergone.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Yet he succeeded in restraining himself, and challenged the quarryman, in a firm voice: "What do you want?" "A fight!" thundered the blaster.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 08 by Eugène Sue

He thought that she wished to speak to him and leant forward: "Shall I remain here at your disposal to take you to the piscina by-and-by?"
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

In his philosophy of law, the human mind is taken in that stage in which it steps into reality, having as its principal characteristic a free will.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

He thought that she wished to speak to him and leant forward: “Shall I remain here at your disposal to take you to the piscina by-and-by?”
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

Being a faulty human being (and none but a faulty, unpractical, unsympathetic human being can want, in these days of enlightenment, to shut herself up in a nunnery for the rest of her life, with the avowed intention of never doing a hand's turn for any one of God's creatures until the day of her death), she invariably regarded herself as a holy martyr and ruled the poor little devils of orphans for the greater glory of God (magnified entirely, be it understood, by her own martyrdom) than for the greater happiness of the poor little devils.
— from Stella Maris by William John Locke

[77] Francis Davison hints that his tour was by no means a pleasure trip, what with studying Italian, reading history and policy, observing and writing his "Relation."
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

The remaining ships of the north division were gallantly led into action by the brave Captain Trehouart, whose brig succeeded in reaching her appointed station.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

He heaved a great sigh in resuming: "He appeared to think I was hinting that it was time for him to go, for he got up from the lounge where I had thoughtlessly had the decency to make him sit down, and went out into the hall, thanking me as I followed him to the door.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells