Dear me, what a rustler he was after the slumbrous way of Manuel, poor old slug!
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The first thing I want is to see designs for a new palace for me—nothing un ostentatious, either—and your best painters and sculptors to start working on my portraits and statues.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

“Well, sir, if he thinks so well o' Mr. Poyser for a tenant I wish you could put in a word for him to allow us some new gates for the Five closes, for my husband's been asking and asking till he's tired, and to think o' what he's done for the farm, and's never had a penny allowed him, be the times bad or good.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

He and I to discourse about our accounts, and the bringing them to the Parliament, and with much content to see him rely so well on my part.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Tom, happy in this spectator of his military performances, even though the spectator was only Maggie, proceeded, with the utmost exertion of his force, to such an exhibition of the cut and thrust as would necessarily be expected of the Duke of Wellington.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Amongst these would-be fugitives, Jos remarked the Lady Bareacres and her daughter, who sate in their carriage in the porte-cochere of their hotel, all their imperials packed, and the only drawback to whose flight was the same want of motive power which kept Jos stationary.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Justice herself can find no fault with natures such as these; and they will be the saviours of our State; disciples of another sort would only make philosophy more ridiculous than she is at present.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The walls of the most penurious dwellings enclose a fluted pillar or ponderous stone, which once made part of the palace of the Caesars; and the voice of dead time, in still vibrations, is breathed from these dumb things, animated and glorified as they were by man.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

These investigators used the dynamometer as a measure of the force of contraction; however, most of the subsequent work on motor processes has been by the ergographic method.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“I’m monstrous proud of ye, Dannie,” said Godfrey, [Pg 68] as the two wended their way toward home after the shooting was over; “monstrous proud.
— from The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" by Harry Castlemon

I make this revelation only because it is important to a correct understanding of the case, and because the conversation from beginning to end was official in character, relating exclusively to public business, without suggestion or allusion of a personal nature, and absolutely without the slightest word on my part leading in the most remote degree to any such overture, which was unexpected as undesired.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Several weeks of mass protests in April 2006 were followed by several months of peace negotiations between the Maoists and government officials, and culminated in a November 2006 peace accord and the promulgation of an interim constitution.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But nothing is more natural,” he added with an ominous smile, “than that they shall do so on the sunny south wall of Miss Prodmore’s best manner.”
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

In the wide, dry moat, at the base of the castle-wall, are clustered whole colonies of small houses, some of brick, but the larger portion built of old stones which once made part of the Norman keep, or of Roman structures that existed before the Conqueror's castle was ever dreamed about.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Though his eye had not much of the fire and energy which characterized that of his father and his brother, it was sufficiently quick and marking to observe in the room all those who are likely to be serviceable, either individually to himself, or more generally, to the state; and to each of these he took care to address some word of more particular favour and encouragement.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Then I returned to the stockade, where old man Pine, a picturesque, tall figure in his fringed hunter’s buckskin, sat motionless before the cabin door.
— from Gold by Stewart Edward White

We greet our students, with our most profound salaam, and bid them be seated for their first lessons in the Yogi Science of Breath.
— from The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by William Walker Atkinson

This was my dream, From which I woke and saw again the sheer Walls of my prison, which no longer seem The agony they did, even though the cell Is the hard penalty and the cursed extreme Hate in return for love.
— from Starved Rock by Edgar Lee Masters

"It doesn't seem to be a very bad smash," went on Mr. Pertell.
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Laura Lee Hope