The real estate man's knees were wobbly as the psychist pushed him from the elevator, down a corridor and into an office.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Glaucon and the rest entreated me by all means not to let the question drop, but to proceed in the investigation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Some propose to read {eikosi mneas khrusou}.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Why did he not pay attention to Celia, and leave her to listen to Mr. Casaubon?—if that learned man would only talk, instead of allowing himself to be talked to by Mr. Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It's much easier to pay ten roubles every month than fifty for five!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Even that amiable and unostentatious simplicity of character, which gives the nameless grace to real excellence, may cause him to be undervalued by some coarse minds, who do not know that true worth is always void of glare and pretension.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

When he returned, and the Athenians heard that nothing had been done at Lacedaemon, they flew into a passion, and deciding that faith had not been kept with them, took advantage of the presence of the Argives and their allies, who had been introduced by Alcibiades, and made a treaty and alliance with them upon the terms following: The Athenians, Argives, Mantineans, and Eleans, acting for themselves and the allies in their respective empires, made a treaty for a hundred years, to be without fraud or hurt by land and by sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Religion caused her no alarm; the priests had lulled to rest every misgiving of conscience, which might have obtruded, on account of the accusing spirits of the murdered martyrs.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The Bramas never failed, and even do not now, to read every morning the mysterious legend of Gosgendre-Mootsjam; because it is a dogma of the Indian religion that any one who reads this legend every morning, obtains the forgiveness of the punishment of all his sins; so the Church of Rome holds that any one who recites the Angelus when the bell rings, in the morning, at noon, and at sun down, or recites the acts of faith, of hope, and of charity, obtains the remittance of the punishment of several of his venial sins; and, also, that any one who regularly recites the prayers of Saint Brigitte, or who, when he dies, recites with great devotion the prayer Memorare o piissima, etc., will go to Paradise.
— from Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat

He made me feel so uncomfortable, for I thought someone would come into the room every minute, and I begged him to take me back to the ball-room and not be a silly boy.
— from The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth by W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes) Trowbridge

As soon as the men had quitted the private office Kendale sprang to his feet and began pacing up and down the length of the room excitedly, muttering under his breath: "'Ah, what a fatal web we weave
— from Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey

To the river, every man of you, and curse your leprous, indolent souls!
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

The impression it had made on me during my former visits had faded, or else I had never properly seen it, or had not seen it in the right emotional mood.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

3: Further, it belongs to the same virtue both to restrain excessive movement, and to strengthen the soul against excessive withdrawal: thus fortitude both curbs daring and fortifies the soul against fear.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

she asked in German, and swung the heavy bag she carried into the room, "every moment I thought I should be intercepted.
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

I recalled what a drug the skyscrapers are on the real estate market, how they yield an average of two per cent.
— from Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Simeon Strunsky

Jane was my sister's own maid, and her room was close at hand, and I dare say dear grandmother gave her the order, in Mary Warren's presence, as soon as she quitted the room, else might Mary Warren well be surprised at the singularity of the whole procedure; but Jane did not make her appearance, nevertheless.
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper