Then he said— “You are right,” and then almost immediately afterwards, “Has anyone seen about the horses?”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As soon as Mrs. Weston was sufficiently recovered to admit Mr. Woodhouse's visits, Emma having it in view that her gentle reasonings should be employed in the cause, resolved first to announce it at home, and then at Randalls.—But how to break it to her father at last!—She had bound herself to do it, in such an hour of Mr. Knightley's absence, or when it came to the point her heart would have failed her, and she must have put it off; but Mr. Knightley was to come at such a time, and follow up the beginning she was to make.—She was forced to speak, and to speak cheerfully too.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

In the South-east corner of our compound," (he sent word,) "there are in the Pear Fragrance Court, over ten apartments, all of which are vacant and lying idle; and were we to tell the servants to sweep them, and invite 'aunt' Hsüeh and the young gentleman and lady to take up their quarters there, it would be an extremely wise thing."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

We had half-an-hour’s talk, all together; and I asked her about the twins, who, she said, were ‘grown great creatures’; and after Master and Miss Micawber, whom she described as ‘absolute giants’, but they were not produced on that occasion.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Similarly, as there are certain diseases of the soul that are injurious and harmful and bring storm and darkness to it, the best thing will be to eject them and lay them low by giving them open sky, pure air and light, or, if that cannot be, to change and improve them some way or other.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Having raised him upon his legs, we walked together to an inn, about half a mile from the place, where Strap, who was not quite recovered, went to bed; and in a little time the third servant returned with the captain's horse and furniture, leaving him to crawl after as well as he could.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He has spun a tradition around it, and he adorns it with his best carvings, he colours and decorates it.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I repeat)—solely because you are the type, and incarnation, and head, and crown of the most impudent, the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar and detestable form of commonplaceness.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You are most good, sir, and Mr Barber too, and indeed, an hour ago, we were in as great straits—.” “And are now, sir,” exclaimed his wife interrupting him.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"Because all the beauty and light has gone out of my life; because I prefer to trust myself into the hands of God rather than to the tender mercies of the world; because he is there, and I am here, and I am tired of waiting."
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

His personal life had turned to ashes in an hour, and he had told himself that his public one, at least, should remain vital.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

“Then we will think about it,” answered Herr Adler; and Squib went home with a happy heart, feeling that something new and interesting had come into his life.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

[1178] Beneath the jest there lay bitter earnest, for the authority of the “Wittenberg school” in Luther’s estimation stood high indeed; whoever “despises it, so long as the Church and school remain as they are, is a heretic and a bad man,” seeing that, in this school, God has “revealed His Word.”
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

It is a vast stone structure, composed of motley parts joined "by no quite lawful marriage of the arts" into an harmonious and impressive whole.
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

The Argus is always howling about their not having anything to say about the way the mills are run; let’s give ’em a chance.
— from The Rising of the Tide: The Story of Sabinsport by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

Only, if a guest did happen to be unpunctual, from whatever cause, even if it were illness, the host would send for his bear, or his half-dozen bull-dogs, and proceed to the sick man's room, with the avowed intention (and he always kept his word) of "drawing the badger."
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn