She was heartbroken, and after telling her mother what she had seen, she said coldly, like a man of business laying down the terms of an agreement: “'Here is what I have determined to do, mamma: We will both go away to some little town, or rather into the country.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

At length there was nothing more to be said; the ladies drove on, and the others returned into the house.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Again, from their old residence in that quarter, the citadel is still known among Athenians as the city.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Do you know whether there is any sort of tavern or restaurant in the neighbourhood?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[805] Moreover, the ratapa, just like the soul, sustains the closest relations with the ancestor of which the sacred tree or rock is the materialized form.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In such puzzles the picture of an object is intended to call up in the mind of the reader, not the special group of ideas appropriate to the object represented in the picture, but rather the sound which serves as the name of this object.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Another fifteen or twenty minutes passed and they were not called to dinner, and they could still hear the orderly running into the kitchen and back again, noisily treading with his boots, and Samoylenko shouting: “Put it on the table!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thus far it resembled the religion which Apepi, the last "Shepherd King," had endeavoured to introduce; but the new differed from the old reformation in the matter of the god selected for special honour.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

When Peters, at centre, passed the ball at least two feet above the upstretched hands of Harris, who wanted to punt, and at least nine youths raced back up the field in pursuit of it, shoving, tripping, falling, rolling, and when it was Peters himself who finally dropped his one hundred and seventy-odd pounds on it, the onlookers rocked in their seats and applauded wildly.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

We ought to be able to defend ourselves here for weeks, and the king will assuredly come to our relief in two or three days at the outside."
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

However, only about twenty-three miles of Forty Mile River are in Canada; and the upper part of it and its relation to other rivers in the district have no direct interest for us.
— from Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Joseph Ladue

She looked toward the entrance of the room she was in, but the door that opened was in the other room in the other building.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

If the oil is distilled in a current of steam, or with petroleum ether, the tarry matter passes over, while the matter giving the true odour remains in the retort ( p. 372 ).
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

As the church has been rebuilt, and as the castle on the outskirts is now little more than a memory, the only resort is to turn for some point of interest to that quaintly thatched old inn, the White Hart, very much older than the tablet, “W. M. P. 1708,” on its front would lead many to suppose.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Their only rival is travel and there are cases where they know none.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton