She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia's general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Finding it, therefore, prudent to economise on his half-pay during the peace, he went to France, in company with Captain Macnamara of the navy, and took lodgings at St. Omer's.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

He’ll read the letter and scratch his head!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And then men saw him, “red as the rising sun from spur to plume,” lift up his sword, and, kneeling, kiss the cross of it; and after, rising to his feet, set might and main with all his fellowship upon the foe, till, as a troop of lions roaring for their prey, they drove them like a scattered herd along the plains, and cut them down till they could cut no more for weariness.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

But Tales, like all simple souls, once he had seen what was just, went straight toward it.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

To the east of the lake, a salt desert stretches for a seven days' march, and further on begin the Kum-tagh sands, where wild camels live.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"I'm going to take this letter and scan it now.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

me-yow!” as soft as I could, and then I put out the light and scrambled out of the window on to the shed.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

She moved across the lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

" "But the law always searches for the motive, and why should I kill Seth, who was more or less a friend?" "All the worse.
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser

He shrank, indeed, from all clear thought, let alone speech, on the subject, as from something indelicate, in a way irreverent.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

Twelve [Pg 417] similar sets of three each are suspended from a single bar, and their lengths are so proportioned that they sound the musical scale—the three in the first frame, we will say, sounding the tenor C, the middle C and the C in the third space in the treble clef; the next set the corresponding D's above, and so on.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

SAINT-FOIN.—This is certainly one of the most useful plants of this tribe, and in the south of England is the life and support of the upland farmer: in such places it is the principal fodder, both green and in hay, for all his stock.
— from The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts by William Salisbury

Mrs. Cowles held the scarf nearer the lamp and squinted at it, deliberately and solemnly, through the eye-glasses that lorded it atop her severe nose.
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis

And thus, through that lonely and self-fix'd existence, Crept a vague sense of silence, and horror, and distance: A strange sort of faint-footed fear,—like a mouse That comes out, when 'tis dark, in some old ducal house Long deserted, where no one the creature can scare, And the forms on the arras are all that move there.
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

It has been stated that Lizards are susceptible to musical sounds, and that they may be attracted from their hiding-places by judicious whistling.
— from Animal Life of the British Isles A Pocket Guide to the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and Woodland by Edward Step

He smote to the right and the left, and so swiftly that men could scarcely see the blows fall, for he struck with Groan-Maker’s beak.
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The words enumerated by Blackstone's annotator are purely of English composition, and have no correspondent in the dead languages; whilst testament , sacrament , parliament , and many others, are Latin words Anglicised by dropping the termination " um "—a great distinction as regards the relative value of words, which the learned annotator seems to have overlooked.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various