I had time to get seated, to enforce perfect silence, to take out my work, and to commence it amidst the profoundest and best trained hush, ere M. Emanuel entered with his vehement burst of latch and panel, and his deep, redundant bow, prophetic of choler.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

XX. Themistokles had even more extended views than these about making the Athenians supreme at sea.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Dr. Wright, an English physician, when at Paris, wrote to a friend, who was of the Royal Society, an account of the high esteem my experiments were in among the learned abroad, and of their wonder that my writings had been so little noticed in England.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

L'application classique de l'e-book m'a permis d'acheter le dernier Brett Easton Ellis, le dernier Beigbedder, le dernier Houellebecq (quoiqu'il soit meilleur à réciter ses poèmes sur fond trip hop en MP3 en ce moment, chez Tricatel.com), de trouver enfin le bouquin de William Gibson (Neuromancien, 1986, ndlr) avec la fameuse formule impérissable sur le cyberspace, j'y ai ajouté le 3001 de Clarke et quelques bons vieux Norman Spinrad et Philip K. Dick pour faire bonne mesure…
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Suddenly he heard Denísov shouting in a vibrating voice behind the hut, evidently much excited.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Those who were left behind were all strangers to her except Mr Edmundson, and she wanted to get as far from him as she could.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

They hardly ever meet, even if they are brought to bear upon the same mind.'
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

To His Excellency M. E. Hay, Governor of Washington: We have the honor to transmit herewith the Biennial Report of the Bureau of Statistics, Agriculture and Immigration for the year 1909, dealing with the various resources and industries of Washington.
— from A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell

"He was kindly disposed towards every one, and knew how to make himself useful and entertaining in every circle of society; and it was only against every species of inhumanity and coarseness, against every kind of insolence, injustice, or cruelty, that he ever manifested either scorn or indignation."
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

"To his Eminence!" "Mazarin!" ejaculated the innkeeper.
— from Condensed Novels by Bret Harte

He spent three hours every morning exercising, in minute detail, every muscle of his body ... and he had developed beautiful muscles, each one of which stood out, like a turn in a rope, of itself.
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

So great a coldness had gradually grown up between them that they hardly ever met except on public occasions.
— from Kophetua the Thirteenth by Julian Stafford Corbett

The Phœnician settlements of the peninsula became independent, but they began to have ever more extensive relations with the great Phœnician colony of Carthage on the North African coast.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

As a class, they have embraced modern educational facilities eagerly, so far as they subserve their material prospects.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The horses, especially, might easily be mistaken for sheep, dogs, or any other animal, the small stature of the native ponies being imitated in these images, to an exaggerated degree.
— from Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor