Perhaps their opposing might make me go.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

We began to talk of Miss Matty’s new silk gown.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The old man made him understand with his eyes that he could not answer.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

You were hard done by that once, Master Marner, and it seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Still, it did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his back before the blow fell.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

* This ONE Mrs. Macaulay was the same personage who afterwards made herself so much known as the celebrated female historian.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Meg drew her low chair beside her mother's, and, with a little interruption in either lap, the two women rocked and talked lovingly together, feeling that the tie of motherhood made them more one than ever.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

2. The old man moved slowly down the street.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Thus the whole tribe of madmen make sport among themselves, while one laughs at another; he that is more mad many times jeering him that is less so.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my fortunes: his Grace hath made the match, and all grace say Amen to it! BEATRICE.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

I have had occasion to tell other mens matters to the king, and could have truly claimed this great preferment."
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

“Thy talk of meat makes me heave with desire.”
— from The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer by Guy Thorne

"It is not for you to preach sermons to me on the text of my mother's misfortunes.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

And if I break any promise of this oath, may my flesh be torn from my limbs and my limbs from my body, one by one, to be burned with fire and the ashes thereof scattered abroad.
— from Marietta: A Maid of Venice by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Tho' already tortured by Delamere's absence and illness, and uncertain whether the object of his long solicitude would live to reap the advantage of his accumulated fortunes, he could not think but with pain and reluctance of giving up so large a portion of his annual income: still more unwilling did he feel to refund the produce of the estates for so long a period; and in the immediate emotion of his vexation at receiving Lord Westhaven's first letter, he had sent for Sir Richard Crofts, who, having at the time of Mr. Mowbray's death been entrusted with all the papers and deeds which belonged to him, was the most likely to know whether any were among them that bore testimony to the marriage of Mr. Mowbray and Miss Stavordale.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

He says: "At that time I painted all day, and sold my work during the dusky hours of evening, as I walked through the Strand and other streets where the Jews reigned; popping in and out of Jew shops or any others, and never refusing the offers made me for the pictures I carried fresh from the easel.
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

The pure, fresh voice, with accents like that of Mademoiselle Mars, charmed the poor secretary, already dazzled by Modeste’s beauty, and in his sudden surprise he answered by a phrase that would have been sublime, had it been true.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Now, the ancient believers in the "physical phenomena theory" of myths made out that Hera, the wife of Zeus, was really the same person under another name as Leto, his mistress.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

"And how can any one know what ideas his neighbors have?" said the old man, making his eyes round.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky