To be out of the house late at night or sitting up, except to study, are imprudences she can not allow herself.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The house was thrown into an uproar, the lieutenant of the guard came, and after enjoining secrecy upon everybody, they sent me away.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

These objections produce a powerful effect on the rest of the company; but Socrates, undismayed, exhorts them not to suffer themselves to be deterred from seeking the truth by any difficulties they may meet with; and then proceeds 20 to show, in a moment, the fallacy of Simmias's objection.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

In vain this outraged widow collected the bones of her ancestors and replaced them: they were again dug up; and, after several useless efforts, they were reluctantly left spread over the surface of the fields.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Presently she started up, exclaiming that they would be late for breakfast; and they hurried back to the tumble-down house with its pointless porch and unpruned hedge of plumbago and pink geraniums where the Wellands were installed for the winter.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Charles , then, died not by the hands of man; and should the present Proud Imitator of him, come to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony, are bound, by the doctrine it contains, to applaud the fact.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

The bass flute is an instrument seldom used even today; it possesses the same features as the flute, but it is colder in -21- colour, and crystalline in the middle and high regions.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I do not blame you for it—it is a most natural one; but when you know all, you will feel with me how necessary it must have been to my peace to seize upon every trivial circumstance that can help me to a belief in my own innocence."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

It was perhaps dangerous to tell a series of mere lies to a clever fellow like Rocco, and Racksole wondered how he should ultimately explain them to this great master-chef if his and Nella’s suspicions should be unfounded, and nothing came of them.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

Of course, the work is not quite completed yet, but after settling up everything, the interim payment left me with about fifteen dollars in hand.”
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss

On February 25, 1569, one Bishop, an adherent of Mary’s, said, under examination, that ‘there were sundry books in Latin against her, one or both by Mr. George Buchanan,’ books not yet published (Bain, ii. 624).
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

A susceptible person, once hypnotized, is more and more easily thrown into the hypnotic state until even the slightest hint suffices to bring about the condition.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

All its little irregularities, its deviations from straightness, its bad declines and sudden uppishnesses, even the small faults which an easy-going person would overlook, are held up sternly in warning.
— from Bizarre by Lawton Mackall