I have to lift her up, and place her sleeping in the carriage when I have harnessed the horses and made all ready.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Please let me speak!" Alice grew pale: probably she was afraid that after this declaration she would not be able to come to him any more and receive a rouble a lesson.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It may be answered meanwhile, in regard to Shakespeare’s and to George Eliot’s testimony, that their concession to the “importance” of their Juliets and Cleopatras and Portias (even with Portia as the very type and model of the young person intelligent and presumptuous) and to that of their Hettys and Maggies and Rosamonds and Gwendolens, suffers the abatement that these slimnesses are, when figuring as the main props of the theme, never suffered to be sole ministers of its appeal, but have their inadequacy eked out with comic relief and underplots, as the playwrights say, when not with murders and battles and the great mutations of the world.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The Moon owns this herb also; and though authors cry out upon Alchymists, for attempting to fix quicksilver by this herb and Moonwort, a Roman would not have judged a thing by the success; if it be to be fixed at all, it is by lunar influence.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Alice grew pale: probably she was afraid that after this declaration she would not be able to come to him any more and receive a rouble a lesson.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But Lance was gone—on account of Roy—where no spell of hers could touch him any more; and Roy—was he going too ... on account of Lance...?
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

—Places moral excellence at the head of all excellence; is governed by the highest order of moral principle; would on no account knowingly do wrong; is scrupulously exact in all matters of right; perfectly honest in motive; always condemning self and repenting; makes duty every thing; very forgiving of those who evince penitence, but inexorable without; with Combativeness large, evinces the utmost indignation at the wrong, and drives the right with great force; is censorious, and makes but little allowance for the faults and follies of mankind, and shows extraordinary moral courage and fortitude; with small Secretiveness and an active temperament, is liable to denounce evil doers; with large Friendship, cannot tolerate the least thing wrong in friends, and is liable to reprove them; with large Philoprogenitiveness, exacts too much from children, and with large Combativeness, is too liable to blame them; with large Cautiousness, is often afraid to do lest it should do wrong; with large Veneration, reasoning faculties, and Language, is a natural theologian, and takes the highest pleasure in reasoning and conversing upon all things having a moral and religious bearing; with Veneration average, and Benevolence large or very large, cannot well help being a thorough-going reformer, etc.: p. 129.
— from The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by O. S. (Orson Squire) Fowler

"The horses and men are ready now in the yard."
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

They were undecided as to whether they should go to the manager of the hotel and make a report, or not, but being only kids, they were afraid of getting into trouble themselves, so they waited.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

Sir Henry and I, accompanied by Ignosi and one of the chiefs, descended the hill and made a round of the pickets.
— from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He recognized the fact that his acceptance meant a renunciation of the theatre.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

This teaching of Communism, however necessary it may appear for the building of the Communist state of the future, does seem to me to be an evil in that it is done emotionally and fanatically, with an appeal to hate and militant ardour rather than to constructive reason.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

They have a most affectionate remembrance of the Dutch, who were once their masters, but who were afterwards expelled from Formosa by a
— from Peeps Into China; Or, The Missionary's Children by E. C. (Edith Caroline) Phillips

I fell to the ground and lay like a log whilst my men took to their heels and made a run for the boat, with the Arab party hot on their tracks.
— from Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland by Henry A. Rayne

Charley could go all the time; but Jack would have to help about mowing and reaping and threshing, and couldn't attend regularly.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various