she pleaded, grasping her aunt’s arm in order to rise.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The man and one of the maids were sent off immediately into Devonshire, to prepare the house for their mistress's arrival; for as Lady Middleton was entirely unknown to Mrs. Dashwood, she preferred going directly to the cottage to being a visitor at Barton Park; and she relied so undoubtingly on Sir John's description of the house, as to feel no curiosity to examine it herself till she entered it as her own.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Steamer after steamer falls into line, and the stately procession goes winging its flight up the river.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

At any rate the Satsuma people got into boats and went down the river, pursued by the Tokugawa men, who fired at them from the banks, and killed two of the fugitives.
— 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

I tell you again, Sir Percival Glyde has no shadow of a claim to expect more than the income of the money.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"When I consider," says James Freeman Clarke, "what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal of life to those whose homes are hard and cold, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truths from heaven,—I give eternal blessings for this gift.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"You are afraid of Sir Percival Glyde?" "Am I?"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Just as I opened the door, I caught the words, “I was foolish to expect anything very genteel out of the Drumble shops; poor girl!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"The folks out my way had the stud-poker fad pretty badly about eight or ten years ago, but now they've got back to their first love and stick pretty generally to the game of California draw—which, by the way, is a whole lot different game from the draw you people back here play.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

The following passage in one of the unpublished letters of Menendez seems to indicate that the above is exaggerated: "Your Majesty may he assured by me, that, had I a million, more or less, I would employ and spend the whole in this undertaking, it being so greatly to the glory of the God our Lord, and the increase of our Holy Catholic Faith, and the service and authority of your Majesty and thus I have offered to our Lord whatever He shall give me in this world, Whatever I shall possess, gain, or acquire shall be devoted to the planting of the Gospel in this land, and the enlightenment of the natives thereof, and this I do promise to your Majesty."
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

The fighting operations were in charge of a small body of men, composed of two or three scientific specialists, and some practical gunners and their assistants.
— from The Great War Syndicate by Frank Richard Stockton

Put them together, place on salad plates garnished with lettuce, and serve with the fruit-salad dressing.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Far surpassing in interest the somewhat pinchbeck Gothic upper church of St. Bénigne is its crypt, the oldest Romanesque monument in Burgundy.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

"At any rate, I have always felt that you and I were going to college together, and I believe we shall," predicted Grace.
— from Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School by Josephine Chase

"How's that?" said Pete, greatly interested.
— from Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes