For a year or two Eliza saw her husband frequently, and there was nothing to interrupt their happiness, except the loss of two infant children, to whom she was passionately attached, and whom she mourned with a grief so intense as to call for gentle remonstrance from her mistress, who sought, with maternal anxiety, to direct her naturally passionate feelings within the bounds of reason and religion.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Others, again, adopted the literary profession or became teachers in the higher educational establishments.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I feared for the safety of the troops intrusted to him, especially as he was to raise new levies, raw troops, to execute so important a trust.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This notable collection will place within the reach of the student all the important sources of his country’s history, and will make possible a more extensive and accurate writing of the history of the islands than has ever before been possible.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

So when the approach of Mrs Deborah was proclaimed through the street, all the inhabitants ran trembling into their houses, each matron dreading lest the visit should fall to her lot.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Tor. deviates from the other texts in that he elaborates on the cooking process.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

His life was prefixed to all the early editions of these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall as the introduction to his edition of Aesop.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Yet the instant that his eyes beheld Madame Odintsov returning his heart leapt within him.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"But throughout these calamities," huskily continued Don Benito, painfully turning in the half embrace of his servant, "I have to thank those negroes you see, who, though to your inexperienced eyes appearing unruly, have, indeed, conducted themselves with less of restlessness than even their owner could have thought possible under such circumstances."
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The sum to be regained would not be worth the while of any lawyer to insure the hopeless expense of fighting such a battle.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

he then asked: upon which my mother not answering, the poor man burst into tears, and cried: "Oh, cousin—cousin Constance, dost count me a spy, and at thy death-bed?" He seemed cut to the heart; whereupon she gave him her hand, and said she hoped God would send her such ghostly assistance as she stood in need of; and praying God to bless him and his wife and children, and make them his faithful servants, so she might meet them all in perpetual happiness, she spoke with such good cheer, and then bade him and Edmund farewell with so pleasant a smile, as deceived them into thinking her end not so near.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Marlborough several times professed an utter contempt for Somerset's abilities or discretion, and was indignant at the idea that he ever could have made use of such a man in any work requiring confidence or judgment.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

Conscious that there was no room for its exercise in England, the pure enthusiast, like Calvin and Descartes, a voluntary exile, was to come to the banks of the Delaware to institute the “ Holy Experiment .”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

In other words, the most rapid vibrations present in an earthquake do not recur at a rate of much more than about 30 to 50 per second; or, if they do, they are not strong enough to impress the human ear.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

Nor am I going to insist that her eyes had a fire like that of stars, or proclaim that Cupid was in the habit of lighting his torch from them.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

Here Mr. Jingle laughed very heartily; and Job, rubbing his [403] hands with delight, uttered the first sound he had given vent to since he entered the house—a low noiseless chuckle, which seemed to intimate that he enjoyed his laugh too much, to let any of it escape in sound.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

His office work was now altogether repugnant to him; he got so careless of it and inattentive to it that Herr Elias Roos made loud complaints, and at last was glad when Traugott, under the pretext of a lingering illness, gave up going to the office at all: for which reason, also, the marriage was put off for an indefinite time, to Christina's no small vexation.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

I should think not; nor twice in the hour either.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

A placard that is to have effect at some distance must be in glaring colours; pathos calls for images that hallucinate.
— from Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig