His study next engaged his attention, unless business or visi
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He mounted the steps from the garden in haste, eager that some prey should not elude him, and forced his way through the crowd in the hall and past the two jesuits who stood watching the exodus and bowing and shaking hands with the visitors.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Docet se nullum extraordinarium honorem appetisse, sed exspectato 5 legitimo tempore consulatus eo fuisse contentum, quod omnibus civibus pateret.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Mr. Waterbrook was only too happy, as it appeared to me, to have such interests, and such names, even hinted at, across his table.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

She never even hints a complaint on the score of poverty, but I know what it must be.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

At prodigious expense, by sheer force, they broke resistance down, leaving everything but the mere fact of power untouched, since nothing else had a solution.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But when Josephus's mother heard in prison that her son was dead, she said to those that watched about her, That she had always been of opinion, since the siege of Jotapata, [that he would be slain,] and she should never enjoy him alive any more.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The landlord eyed him over but did not find him as good as Don Quixote said, nor even half as good; and putting him up in the stable, he returned to see what might be wanted by his guest, whom the damsels, who had by this time made their peace with him, were now relieving of his armour.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And yet we acknowledge that these are the things which eye hath not seen nor ear heard and therefore it hath not entered into the heart of man in any sensible manner to conceive them.
— from Phaedo by Plato

All naked now, on heaving billows laid, Stern Neptune eyed him, and contemptuous said: "Go, learn'd in woes, and other foes essay!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

“They shall not eat here, anyway,” she emphatically declared.
— from Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

I should not even have answered you at all, if it had not been that I fancied that under your jesting remarks there really lies hid a feeling of some friendliness.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Eager that they should not escape him, and fired with the excitement of the chase, Ahmed did not wait to see how the rest of his comrades fared, but pressed on as fast as he could.
— from Barclay of the Guides by Herbert Strang

The lady's state of timorous and fretful apprehension was so habitual that her fears went for nothing with her lord and master; but an appearance of disturbance and anxiety among the servants now excited his alarm, especially when he was called out of the room, and told in private that Mr. Kennedy's horse had come to the stable door alone, with the saddle turned round below its belly and the reins of the bridle broken; and that a farmer had informed them in passing that there was a smuggling lugger burning like a furnace on the other side of the Point of Warroch, and that, though he had come through the wood, he had seen or heard nothing of Kennedy or the young Laird, 'only there was Dominie Sampson gaun rampauging about like mad, seeking for them.'
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

Never since navies existed have a body of officers and men been worked at higher pressure than those of Germany; drill has never ceased; no effort has been spared to obtain the last ounce of value out of every one on board the ships.
— from The German Fleet Being The Companion Volume to "The Fleets At War" and "From Heligoland To Keeling Island by Archibald Hurd

“You did that—see, here is the gold found on your accomplice, your brother, who played the rôle here of a German baron, and who met death on the river bank, thanks to my good dog who was determined that the robber, the assassin, should not escape him again.
— from Paul and His Dog, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIV) by Paul de Kock

But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

But I cannot keep quiet a long time, and cast down my eyes, like the women there, it is not in my blood; and Adam shut me up in a cage and for many years let me see nothing except himself, and the cold, stupid city in the ravine by the forest.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers