I shall be sheltered here, I dare say, until spring comes.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The two peasants, who were speechless from surprise, glanced sideways out of the corner of one eye, and they looked so exactly like fowls that the man with the light whiskers, when he sat up, said: “Co—co—ri—co” under their very noses, and that gave rise to another storm of amusement.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

" There seems under such circumstances as these no variety in the material content of our thought, and what we notice appears, if anything, to be the pure series of durations budding, as it were, and growing beneath our indrawn gaze.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

To this Pantagruel replying nothing, Panurge prosecuted the discourse he had already broached, and therewithal fetching, as from the bottom of his heart, a very deep sigh, said, My lord and master, you have heard the design I am upon, which is to marry, if by some disastrous mischance all the holes in the world be not shut up, stopped, closed, and bushed.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she—all composure—pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Shepard's United States citations and annotations.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

SHEPARD'S UNITED STATES CITATIONS, FIFTH EDITION.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

"And maybe I can put some up," said Callista, the practical, beginning to take interest in the scheme.
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

Under its sweet influence no Catholic could dwell in Ireland save under such conditions as no man who stood erect might bear, and so there commenced an exodus of independent spirits, who flocked into the service of France and Germany, and filled the navies of Holland and of Spain.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

How many other men in the United States, under similar circumstances, would have been thus faithful?
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

We took our last breakfast at the Boston Lunch, and the first [95] relief of the new guard having been duly posted, we bade farewell to the house which had sheltered us so comfortably and pleasantly the past three months, and joined the regimental line on Broad street, the scene of so many guard-mountings, drills and dress-parades, and now of the ceremony of tendering the command of the city to our successors.
— from The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia "The Cadet Regiment" by Charles Eustis Hubbard

Not cheerful reflections, these, to add to the pangs of acute gout and the consuming anxieties of seamanship under such circumstances.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7 by Filson Young

So I'm just going to detain her where she'll be safe until she comes to her senses."
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

Are you sure? Um. SITKA CHARLEY FREDA
— from Scorn of Women: A Play In Three Acts by Jack London