In reply to the prosecutor's question what grounds he had for asserting that Fyodor Pavlovitch had wronged his son in their money relations, Grigory, to the surprise of every one, had no proof at all to bring forward, but he still persisted that the arrangement with the son was “unfair,” and that he ought “to have paid him several thousand roubles more.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then, again, a fellow had to hold on to his seat with all his might, otherwise the jolt at starting was so tremendous there was no telling where one would get thrown off to.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Lord Marney had all the petty social vices, and none of those petty social weaknesses which soften their harshness or their hideousness.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Again, there were times when he would conceive a change similar to his own to have taken place in her , and the expression of her face already to be charged with a special significance.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The heart of the honest old seaman was touched.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Eirik, Harald's son, was fostered in the house of the herse Thorer, son of Hroald, in the Fjord district.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Then she said: "Listen to me you suitors, who persist in abusing the hospitality of this house because its owner has been long absent, and without other pretext than that you want to marry me; this, then, being the prize that you are contending for, I will bring out the mighty bow of Ulysses, and whomsoever of you shall string it most easily and send his arrow through each one of twelve axes, him will I follow and quit this house of my lawful husband, so goodly, and so abounding in wealth.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But a little reflection may satisfy him that when the criminals who perish at the stake or on the gallows are witches, whose delight it is to blight the crops of the farmer or to lay them low under storms of hail, the execution of these wretches is really calculated to ensure an abundant harvest by removing one of the principal causes which paralyse the efforts and blast the hopes of the husbandman.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The stepmother cursed and swore, and added, “Wait, when the head of the house comes home I will make him shed the blood [ 94 ] of you both before I give him water to drink.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

While in Washington Tibi somehow got hold of rat poison and despite the help of the best veterinarian and also the help of two human doctors who were friends of Nelka, Tibi died.
— from Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff

In his log-book he wrote: "In this action we had six men killed and sixteen wounded, and all the halyards of the headsails shot away; the fore-mast and bowsprit one quarter cut through, and all the fore and main shrouds but one shot away; both mainstays and running rigging cut to pieces; a great number of shot through our sails, and several between wind and water, which caused our vessel to leak.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

You will, perhaps, think it paltry in me, when I ask you not to mention my doctrine; the reason is, if any one, like the author of the 'Vestiges,' were to hear of them, he might easily work them in, and then I should have to quote from a work perhaps despised by naturalists, and this would greatly injure any chance of my views being received by those alone whose opinions I value.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

The pedigree of Sir Isaac, as entered at the Herald’s Office, does not seem to have been satisfactory either to himself or to his successors, as it could not 308 be traced with certainty beyond his grandfather; and it will be seen from the following interesting correspondence, that upon making further researches, he had found some reason to believe that he was of Scotch extraction.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

The thought came to him of taking her away with him on one of their travel-jaunts.
— from The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London

It was hard to believe, as he looked at them beaming upon him in genuine fondness, that only a few short months before they had been barely speaking to him, or that he had wished The Happy Family had, as the saying is, a single neck that he might wring it.
— from The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

They were the morning cream of the correspondence, skimmed from the mass by the practised hand of Wright, the manager; letters which, in the ordinary course of business, go direct to the head of the house to be passed upon.
— from The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

But what is remarkable is that the hoofs of these horses "are absolutely like those of a mule."
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Plẻtr o délla cóscia, the hollownesse of the huckle or hip-bone.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Now, certainly, your Hexcellency won't be so unfortunately rash has to hoffend the Hempress of the Hocean by hany hundue hinterference with one of her favorite sons, while hin the pursuit of 'is peaceful havocation."
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone