I let the old tenants stay on.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I think he slipped in and ate one of them on the sly.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By this time all the tribes of this section, east of the mountains, were in possession of firearms.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

From this date her power was gone, and her name was no longer a terror on the seas.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Johnson at least expected, that the master would order a copy of his Dictionary, now near publication: but the master did not choose to talk on the subject, never asked Johnson to dine, nor even to visit him, while he stayed at Oxford.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Now, however, a new table of valuations must be placed over mankind—namely, that of the strong, mighty, and magnificent man, overflowing with life and elevated to his zenith—the Superman, who is now put before us with overpowering passion as the aim of our life, hope, and will.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I thought I'd be polite, so I couldn't help saying, ‘Yes,’ and he gave me a fine tickling on the spot.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Using the sled-lashing for a heaving rope, and with the aid of the dogs, he hoisted the coffin to the top of the scaffold.
— from White Fang by Jack London

“We must find out,” he said quietly, and Tuppence felt that if she was Mr. Brown she would not like the tone of those simple words.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Str�m was in full fury!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It is evident, from his demeanour throughout, nothing will convince the colonel that Halloway is not a traitor, and he may think it advisable to strike terror in the minds of the savages, by an execution which will have the effect of showing the treason of the soldier to have been discovered." In this opinion many of the officers now concurred; and as the fate of the unfortunate Halloway began to assume a character of almost certainty, even the spirit of the gallant Erskine, the least subdued by the recent distressing events, was overclouded; and all sank, as if by one consent, into silent communion with their thoughts, as they almost mechanically completed the meal, at which habit rather than appetite still continued them.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

And, then, she rose, as one who had that right, and turned the pall back from the countenance of him who lay there on that senseless slab.
— from An American by Belle Willey Gue

A good match they were playing; for more than half an hour neither side was permitted by the other to score a single point.
— from The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree

all the three thousand, sound asleep, while a single spark of light reflected from the sky shone on the tip of the spear which showed where the king lay beneath.
— from The Garden of Eden: Stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament by George Hodges

Three towns of this Scottish corner contend not for the birth but for the honours of Burns.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

Neale permitted himself no comment on this, nor showed the alteration of a line in his face as he stepped into the car and turned on the switch, but Marise cried out to him accusingly, "You might as well say it right out, that you can support life if it is."
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

They tested a hundred, under the normal tension of the spring, and three of them broke.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

“One tress of this silken hair,” said he, raising one of the many curls that clustered on her neck.
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Think of the state your mother and sister will be in about you."
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Bonhomme and his men are gone only to carry back their dead and wounded, and to bring cutlasses, and the two or three sailors who were left on the schooner.
— from The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold