At this time he received a nervously anxious letter from his poor old aunt, on the subject which had previously distressed her—a fear that Jude would not be strong-minded enough to keep away from his cousin Sue Bridehead and her relations.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

There he recalls a number of mean dirty shops, and particularly that of a plumber and decorator with a dusty disorder of earthenware pipes, sheet lead, ball taps, pattern books of wall paper, and tins of enamel.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

With two such nurses as Ruth and Alice, illness seemed to him rather a nice holiday, and every moment of his convalescence had been precious and all too fleeting.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

It is said that the law shall be changed; that the sacrifice shall be changed; that they shall be without law, without a prince, and without a sacrifice; that a new covenant shall be made; that the law shall be renewed; that the precepts which they have received are not good; that their sacrifices are abominable; that God has demanded none of them.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

She went straight to her room, and never came back till our early tea-time, when I thought she looked as if she had been crying.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

c. 6) imputes the first practice of castration to the cruel ingenuity of Semiramis, who is supposed to have reigned above nineteen hundred years before Christ.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sloane had been drinking consecutively and was in a state of unsteady exhilaration, but Amory was quite tiresomely sober; they had run across none of those ancient, corrupt buyers of champagne who usually assisted their New York parties.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Rawdon must go away—go back to his regiment and naughty London, and not play with a poor artless girl's feelings.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This is why every school of thinkers has refused, and not with good reason, to identify the idea of class with that of a generic image.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

[Mr. Cowan ], though he represents a Northern State, can mend that law from a Slave State.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Look on the map at the old bed of the Yellow River across the middle of Kiangsu province; the valley of the Hwei River across northern Nganhwei province, emptying into Lake Hangsu; and Wuhu, on the Yangtze, where the flooded river tried to break east across the flat country to Shanghai, instead of arching north to Nanking.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

More to the purpose of the journeyman baker, however, is the fact that there is no stoking to be done, and he can therefore take his repose at night without having to attend to the furnace.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

On her return she went straight to her room and nothing was seen of her further until the next day at noon the chambermaid failed to arouse her by knocking.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

The high roads are not safe.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The railroad crosses the main river at Loudon, thirty miles from Knoxville, and runs about [Pg 489] parallel to the Holston River, and near its west bank.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

I did not believe he had been to his room all night; which thing they did not seem to believe, and kept gazing all around my room, as though wondering whether I were not hiding him there.
— from For the Faith: A Story of the Young Pioneers of Reformation in Oxford by Evelyn Everett-Green

That her residents are not less generous than the famous philanthropist was forcibly shown on April 29, 1905, when Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boyd transferred to the town some seventy acres for a memorial park.
— from In Tamal Land by Helen Bingham

Elopements are numerous, and they are mentioned here only when complicated with adultery or desertion, since the unmarried parson is entitled to his romance, and not to be censured above other men if he makes a runaway match of it—the woman concerned having reached or survived the ages of discretion without any matrimonial alliance at present existing.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

To the south and nearest the side where Lightfoot was perched with her bow and great bunch of arrows Ab stood in front, while to his right and near the other end of the rude stone rampart was stationed old Hilltop, and he hurled his spears and slew men as they came.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo