as she leaned her head against the window-frame, with her hands clasped tighter and tighter, and her foot beating the ground, she was as lonely in her trouble as if she had been the only gril in the civilized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles, with no other part of her inherited share in the hard-won treasures of thought which generations of painful toil have laid up for the race of men, than shreds and patches of feeble literature and false history, with much futile information about Saxon and other kings of doubtful example, but unhappily quite without that knowledge of the irreversible laws within and without her, which, governing the habits, becomes morality, and developing the feelings of submission and dependence, becomes religion,–as lonely in her trouble as if every other girl besides herself had been cherished and watched over by elder minds, not forgetful of their own early time, when need was keen and impulse strong.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She took the place of a servant in their house.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He assigned as a reason for his gloom and seeming inattention, that he apprehended Johnson had relinquished his purpose of furnishing him with a Prologue to his play, with the hopes of which he had been flattered; but it was strongly suspected that he was fretting with chagrin and envy at the singular honour Dr. Johnson had lately enjoyed.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

So Antigonus suspecting no treachery, but depending on the good-will of his brother, came to Aristobulus armed, as he used to be, with his entire armor, in order to show it to him; but when he was come to a place which was called Strato's Tower, where the passage happened to be exceeding dark, the guards slew him; which death of his demonstrates that nothing is stronger than envy and calumny, and that nothing does more certainly divide the good-will and natural affections of men than those passions.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place to sleep in; there he intended to rest until day, and then go home again to his parents.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So short a rope was doubtless thought a long enough tether for so black or sickly a sheep; so few sands in the hour-glass, slipping so fast away, sufficed for one who had wasted so many precious years.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Commissioner Pett did let fall several scurvy words concerning my pretending to know masts as well as any body, which I know proceeds ever since I told him I could measure a piece of timber as well as anybody employed by the King.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

'Madam,' answered he, 'this is a poor deaf and dumb man, who came hither the other day to ask an alms; so I took him in out of charity and have made him do sundry things of which we had need.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Everything you [213] read in the divine books is shining and light-giving without, but far sweeter is the heart thereof.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

Lovey Mary stayed in the house most of the day.
— from Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Such never knew what these words meant, “Begin at Jerusalem:” yea, such in their hearts have compared the Father and his Son to niggardly rich men, whose money comes from them like drops of blood.
— from The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan

“Manuel, you know that all the men are having supper in the house to-night,” she said, as the man—a good-natured Galveston negro—stepped on shore.
— from A Memory of the Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke

Luckily there was no space required for sitting-rooms or stairs inside the house (which was in fact rather a sham, being really nothing better than a box), so that it would hold an almost unlimited quantity of money.
— from The Eagle's Nest by S. E. Cartwright

Our author in similar fashion writes of a soul watching the processes of its own substance in the heaven-world.
— from The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. (George Robert Stow) Mead

Captain Wilson was satisfied with the manner in which he had executed his orders, and asked him, “whether he preferred staying in the Harpy or following him into the Aurora .”
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

The Captain said, "I thought he was a mighty nice man.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

He went straight to the telegraph office; so did I. I entered the door just a moment after him, and was carelessly edging toward the delivery clerk, to put my stereotyped interrogation to him, when he said in my hearing to the messenger: "Shall we send dispatches from the President to Mrs. Davis at her home to-night?"
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey