Frou-Frou was a beast of medium size, not altogether free from reproach, from a breeder’s point of view.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It must be said that whenever I went out into the streets of Yedo I was always accompanied by my Aidzu samurai Noguchi and from four to six of my personal escort of the betté-gumi .
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

She said nothing at first, for she liked to hear him laugh out his big, hearty laugh, when anything funny happened, so she left him to discover it for himself, and presently forgot all about it; for to hear a German read Schiller is rather an absorbing occupation.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The idea of the mind, I repeat, and the mind itself are in God by the same necessity and follow from him from the same power of thinking.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

She said nothing at first, for she liked to hear him laugh out his big, hearty laugh when anything funny happened, so she left him to discover it for himself, and presently forgot all about it, for to hear a German read Schiller is rather an absorbing occupation.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Robber Mother said no at first, for she was thinking of Robber Father and of the peril which might befall him should she permit Abbot Hans to ride up to their cave.
— from Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls by Elva Sophronia Smith

" "A dwarf, do you mean?" "No, not precisely; the boys call him a manikin, for he's not deformed; only very, very small; not above four feet high.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

In the far-away time before Brian Boru, The faith by Saint Patrick was planted and grew, And the "Island of Saints" has had saints not a few: For there's nothing too good for the Irish.
— from Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse by William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher

The names quill and contour may be replaced by some simple names, as feathers for flying and feathers for covering the body.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Department of Education

But Trudy says networks are fine for minor transactions.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

It swerved violently, and came to a stand not a foot from her.
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly