'But how are we to manage this business?' said the second ruffian: 'let us talk of that, there is no fear of there being booty enough, but how are we to secure it?' 'Aye, aye,' said his comrades, 'let us talk of that, and remember no time is to be lost.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

This mode of viewing the new fruits implies that they are regarded no longer as themselves instinct with divine life, but merely as a gift bestowed by the gods upon man, who is bound to express his gratitude and homage to his divine benefactors by returning to them a portion of their bounty.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The clerk repeated the question thrice, and receiving no answer, prepared to shut the door, when the boy suddenly opened his eyes, winked several times, sneezed once, and raised his hand as if to repeat the knocking.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

It is a service rather than a real network.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

I want to have my sins blotted out, and to feel that they are remembered no more against me, and that the love of God is shed abroad in my heart; and if I can get no good by reading my Bible an’ saying my prayers at home, what good shall I get by going to church?”’ ‘“The church,” says he, “is the place appointed by God for His worship.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

There could be no doubt that it had a very turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

One may also discover their peculiarities in their jokes; for they are taught never to talk at random, nor to utter a syllable that does not contain some thought.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called twenty years.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

several times, and, receiving no answer, got up and went out into the hall.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

But I think he'll come through all right now.
— from The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales by Richard Edward Connell

They were written with a purpose, they were published serially with a purpose, and they are reprinted now together to further that same purpose, which was and is—to sound for the civic pride of an apparently shameless citizenship.
— from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that we were finally allowed out in parties to a restaurant not a hundred yards away.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

"Yes, and there seem to be two of them," added Rob, noting that the men were being held by several soldiers, and it was as though the officer in command might be questioning them closely, for a voice could be heard speaking in French.
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

Pinus jefferi to Pinus jeffreyi, Neowashingtoniana filamentosa to Neowashingtonia filamentosa, Oxydendron arboreum to Oxydendrum arboreum Page xiv: Tilia amerciana to Tilia americana, Robinia neomexicana to Robinia neo-mexicana, Salix sessifolia to Salix sessilifolia.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

Any man master in that house, who mounted those broad steps and shouted his wishes in those aristocratic rooms, necessarily felt like a king and could not take the war in any other way than as a glorious fairy tale.
— from Men in War by Andreas Latzko

I am driven to the timidity of "seems" because we do much talking about Russian novels without having read many of them or understanding what we have read.
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

Croker[ 246 ] was so large and promising a morsel that I postponed temptation and read no part of him carefully; besides it is a question hot with hidden fire.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron