"Perhaps he has now begun to walk about in the evening with girls."
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

du Bois-de-Boulogne, his duty as a good husband had obliged him, though he had no desire to go out, to accompany her, carrying her cloak when she was too warm; and in the evening, after dinner, if she wished to stay at home, and not to dress, if he had been forced to stay beside her, to do what she asked; then how completely would all the trivial details of Swann's life, which seemed to him now so gloomy, simply because they would, at the same time, have formed part of the life of Odette, have taken on—like that lamp, that orangeade, that armchair, which had absorbed so much of his dreams, which materialised so much of his longing,—a sort of superabundant sweetness and a mysterious solidity.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

You'll get a shower and you'll be allowed to walk around in the exercise yard.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

I There are so many things which are impossible to explain!
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Babaji is well aware of the trend of modern times, especially of the influence and complexities of Western civilization, and realizes the necessity of spreading the self-liberations of yoga equally in the West and in the East.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The youth went with the waggoner, and in the evening they arrived at an inn where they wished to pass the night.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I saw him fix a longing eye on the landing-stage as we drew near it, so I managed, by an adroit movement, to jerk his cap into the water, and in the excitement of recovering that, and his indignation at my clumsiness, he forgot all about his beloved graves.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

115 The pride of Manuel disdained and rejected a Barbarian colleague; his ambition was excited by the hope of stripping the purple from the German usurpers, and of establishing, in the West, as in the East, his lawful title of sole emperor of the Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Above all, the Persian monarch, elated by victory, again threatened the peace of Asia, and the presence of the emperor was indispensably required, both in the West and in the East.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In all which most unreasonable folly that ever a man of sense could entertain, each hoped to gain for his arm of the service the advantage, for all the world as if the entire honour and reputation of one or the other, depended upon the outcome of our devilish undertaking.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

"Think," said the teacher, "of a little creature that wriggles about in the earth and sometimes comes to the top through a tiny hole."
— from School-Room Humour by T. J. (Thomas James) Macnamara

But the newspaper gossips would have their way, and in the end turned out to be prophets, for there was no opera in 1897-98, for reasons which will have to be discussed in the next chapter.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Later he had crept forward and, from the hillside, watched all that the Auto Boys did until they went away in the empty car.
— from The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

THE ALLIED ARTS 1 On Music-Lovers Of all forms of the uplift, perhaps the most futile is that which addresses itself to educating the proletariat in music.
— from Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Then the impulse of extermination,—a divine instinct, intended to keep down vermin of all classes to their working averages in the economy of Nature.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

For both these essentials the men had depended on the wreck, and, in the eagerness to secure the foremast, and subsequently to take care of themselves, these important requisites had been overlooked, quite probably, too, as much from a knowledge that the Montauk was so near, as from hurry.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

Of course this excited a curiosity so vast that it almost belittled the main matter—but the Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors, and through them be transmitted to the whole town, for he refused to part with his secret.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7. by Mark Twain

They were afterwards introduced to each other by Lord Sligo, and it was in the course of their first interview at Lord Sligo's table that Lady Hester, with that "lively eloquence" for which she was remarkable, briskly assailed the author of "Childe Harold" for the depreciating opinion he was supposed to entertain of all female intellect.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams