and then added, as she fixed upon Bazarov a pair of large eyes between which glimmered a correspondingly small, pink, upturned nose: "I have met you before."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
He was adorned with a woman’s woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted into a neck comforter.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Paulus Abbas Eremita tanta solitudine, perseverat, ut nec vestem, nec vultum mulieris ferre possit, &c. 2519 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Malihíru man lang ni si Puduy ug náay diyis, Podoy will move if he knows he can get a dime out of it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Naningála ang ákung tiyan sa pagkáun ug nangkà, The jackfruit upset my stomach.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
However, none of these writers inform us why this word was so particularly used; nor tell us what was its purport.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
The girl alone seemed perfectly unmoved, not showing the slightest sign of fear.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi
New shoes, New frock; Vague views Of what’s o’clock When it’s time To go to bed, And scorn sublime Of what is said; Folded hands, Saying prayers, Understands Not, nor cares; {115} Thinks it odd, Smiles away; Yet may God Hear her pray!
— from Lilliput Lyrics by W. B. (William Brighty ) Rands
4. Vessels, it may be, not costly or golden; Vessels, it may be, of quantity small, Yet by the Nail in the Sure Place upholden, Never to shiver and never to fall.
— from Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal
Boisot's decks towered high over the canal boats, and the crews shot down from their superior position until nearly all the Spaniards were killed, when at last a round shot crashed through the timbers of the flagship, and Romero, fearing she was foundering, jumped overboard on the land side with his few surviving comrades.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume
Although he was an exile, a prisoner, waiting for a trial where he would have little chance of justice, knowing that the sword hung above his head ready to fall at any moment, S. Paul utters no complaint, no murmur of discontent.
— from The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton
People came in droves to ask for renewal of their notes, each leaving a tip of several pesetas usually, not to be counted against the debt itself.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The breed could not recall where the rock had come from, save that he had chucked it into his canoe some place up north.
— from The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
I had begun to loosen rhythm as an escape from rhetoric, and from that emotion of the crowd that rhetoric brings, but I only understood vaguely and occasionally that I must, for my special purpose, use nothing but the common syntax.
— from Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
“The Imperial government, further, has the honor to direct the particular attention of the American government to the fact that the British admiralty in a confidential instruction issued in February, 1915, recommended its mercantile shipping not only to seek protection under neutral flags and disguising marks, but also, while thus disguised, to attack German submarines by ramming.
— from Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania by Logan Marshall
However, she played us no such ugly trick, and therefore, I wrong Little Jule in supposing it.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville
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