Unluckily for me, he was more sober that night than he usually is at such an hour.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Cicero, true as he was to the academic philosophy, and consequently led to reject the certainty of physical, as of every other kind of knowledge, yet freely confesses its great importance to the human understanding: " Est animorum inge Page 97 niorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturæ ."
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Instantly it occurred to me, that his unexampled diligence in copying by his dim window for the first few weeks of his stay with me might have temporarily impared his vision.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

During the sanguinary struggle which ensued the Turks fought with great bravery, but they had ultimately to sue for peace.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Pierre took him up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called Dólokhov.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Mas’r’s hoss wants rubben down; see how he splashed hisself; and Jerry limps too; don’t think Missis would be willin’ to have us start dis yer way, no how.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

And now, so that I'm properly instructed in this matter, tell me what's been happening so far." K. instantly began telling his uncle about what had been happening, holding nothing back - being completely open with him was the only way that K. could protest at his uncle's belief that the trial was a great disgrace.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its long-suspended life.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But, strange to tell, his utterance is no ordinary speech and flows in a melodious stream.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

How hard they hunt us you can gather from the fact that we are driven to such disguises as those for which I apologise, and to such pranks as this one by which you suffer.”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He'll be turning up at the house unless he's got wind of us.
— from Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon

The assembly broke up, and the members returned to their homes utterly disheartened.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

This little speech touched Corinne's heart, and she lifted her face and gave the bereaved father a kiss of sympathy, the tears hanging upon her own long lashes.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

but I long to beat him, and, if I had him on blue water, to trice him up higher than ever he went before.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

“William, it does seem as if Fate itself had intervened to help us out,” she began delightedly.
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

At regular intervals King Ambo used to give a feast, and the elephant used to eat more than any one, although the hippopotamus used to do his best; however, not being as big as the elephant, although he was very fat, he was left a long way behind.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell

This same passage in the Comedy of Errors suggests another consideration; which is, that Shakspeare appears to have used league and mile synonymously.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Referring to this, in a speech in the British house of Peers, the Duke of Argyle made these remarks: "One man there is, my Lords, whose natural generosity, contempt of danger, and regard for the public, prompted him to obviate the designs of the Spaniards, and to attack them in their own territories; a man, whom by long acquaintance I can confidently affirm to have been equal to his undertaking, and to have learned the art of war by a regular education, who yet miscarried in the design only for want of supplies necessary to a possibility of success.
— from Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America. by Thaddeus Mason Harris