Still snuffling, pleading, and reluctant, Mole suffered himself to be dragged back along the road by his imperious companion, who by a flow of cheerful talk and anecdote endeavoured to beguile his spirits back and make the weary way seem shorter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

She paused and regarded Martin with twinkling eyes.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The former consisted of such parts as required military defence, and were barbarian, or bordered upon nations not as yet subdued, or were barren and uncultivated, which though ill provided with everything else, were yet well furnished with strongholds, and might thus dispose [Pg 297] the inhabitants to throw off the yoke and rebel.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Yet the high-pitch'd taunt of Margaret Fuller, forty years ago, still sounds in the air: "It does not follow, because the United States print and read more books, magazines, and newspapers than all the rest of the world, that they really have therefore a literature."
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them, to the envy and wonderment of the other freshettes, who, lacking Philippa’s sponsorship, were doomed to remain rather on the fringe of things during their first college year.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

rticularly if a fine linen handkerchief of Monsieur Ratignolle's, which was missing last week, had been returned; and to be sure to set to one side such pieces as required mending and darning.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

When he paid at the desk where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a smile.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Greatly to my surprise, for he was attached to me, and always showed pleasure at rowing me over for my visits, he refused point blank to help me and even tried, in a series of clumsy ruses, to start me at work elsewhere.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

As the song says:— “Perhaps a recruit Might chance to shoo Great General Buonaparté.”
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

Good faith, rather than thou shouldst pawn a rag more, I’d lay my ladyship in lavender [103] —if I knew where.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 3 by John Marston

Chokmah and Binah, or Wisdom and Intelligence, the Father and Mother, or, again, the Father and Son, are on the same plane and reäct mutually on one another.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Originated from seed planted at Readfield, Me.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

2 —where fulcrum, lever, stone, planks, and rollers may be seen.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

She is far too gushing and talkative for my taste; she patronised and repressed me in the same breath.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

During the month ending June 15th the child showed no decided preference for either hand in reaching straight before her within the easy reaching distance of ten inches, but a slight balance in favour of the left hand; yet she was right-handed to a marked degree during the same period as regards movements which required effort or strain, such as grasping for objects twelve to fifteen inches distant.
— from The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin