Anyway, everybody has a different viewpoint in this matter, a single specific detail being convincing to one, to another only when taken in connection with something else, and to a third when connected with still a third phenomenon.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweeter than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There was sound sense in what the younger Dionysius said to his father, who reproached him for doing some shameful deed by asking, "Did I set you the example?"
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"You have done so well , 'Léna dear," she said, as she sat down beside her discouraged hostess.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"They say she died by her own hand," he cried, excitedly.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Ten minutes later he emerged again with a happy smile on his face and, accompanied by [24] several other men who had also returned to duty after the healing of minor wounds, Herbert Whitcomb led the way to a waiting motor car and presently was speeding away to the fighting front, all of his present companions being assigned, with him, to the Twenty-eighth Division and to a company that had suffered serious depletion because of many violent attacks against the stubborn Hun resistance in the drive beyond Rheims and on the Vesle River.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Argonne Forest by James R. Driscoll

She sat down beside Jim's bed and looked seriously at his eager, rapt, shamed little boy-face on the pillow.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"There's tricks in every trade, Red." "If this thing is true—" "Go talk to the Weak Sister," said Dart briefly.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

It may be that brothers' swords shall drink brothers' blood, but, oh Abner, let it not be your fate to be a fratricide."
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

Now, Mr. Smith wouldn't say that, if he should sit down beside me and let me talk to him five minutes.
— from Ginger-Snaps by Fanny Fern

The school system of Norway is still sadly deficient, but there is evidently no lack of natural capacity among these people.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor