“It’s only just beginning,” Sviazhsky said, replying for Sergey Ivanovitch with a smile.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

reserva , f. , reserve funds; —— federal , gold reserve in the Federal Treasury; stock, supply. resfriadera , f. , receptacles for cooling used in sugar mills.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I would not say that in any of these cases Common Sense pronounces quite decidedly in favour of unveracity: but then neither is [449] Utilitarianism decided, as the utility of maintaining a general habit of truth-speaking is so great, that it is not easy to prove it to be clearly outweighed by even strong special reasons for violating the rule.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

On either side of the track, if it deserve the name, was the thick ‘bush;’ and everywhere was stagnant, slimy, rotten, filthy water.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I was shoved into a dark and narrow cell in a dungeon, with some scant remnants for dinner, some moldy straw for a bed, and no end of rats for company.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly at the clergyman, felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she knew not; unless that he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The representation of minorities should be provided for in the same manner as in the national Parliament, and there are the same strong reasons for plurality of votes; only there is not so decisive an objection, in the inferior as in the higher body, to making the plural voting depend (as in some of the local elections of our own country) on a mere money qualification; for the honest and frugal dispensation of money forms so much larger a part of the business of the local than of the national body, that there is more justice as well as policy in allowing a greater proportional influence to those who have a larger money interest at stake.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Wolfe, seeing them stop, suddenly roused from his indifferent stupor, and watched them keenly.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

Her fortune enabled her to gratify the pious desire of obtaining some sacred relics from the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Here, deep in Old Mexico, she still remained foreign.
— from Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure by Jackson Gregory

Here there was a small cottage in a very sequestered situation, by making some little additions to which Scott thought it might be converted into a suitable summer residence for his daughter and future son-in-law.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

As he did so, she ran forward to him with a cry.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker

He felt rather than saw the Mexican’s sudden swift reach for his knife.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

“You should have made the gentleman a curtsey, Florence, when he saw you, and I had to name you,” she said repressively, for she was annoyed at Florence’s bad manners in coming out and staring.
— from Maud Florence Nellie; or, Don't care! by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

The stomach (leaving out of consideration the proboscis) hangs down into the bell cavity as a slightly sagging saucer-shaped roof ( Figs. 4 and 5 ).
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

It reminded me of a rocket, which, while soaring brightly in its flight towards the sky, shines radiant for a few seconds only, and then vanishes in space.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

The Thermæ, consisting of a large court, and several smaller side rooms for vapour-baths, with mosaic pavements of various designs.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn