So Mr. Thornton went into the study, and Dixon had to retreat into the kitchen, and reinstate herself in her own esteem by a prodigious story of Sir John Beresford's coach and six, when he was high sheriff.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

At last one night Anselmo heard footsteps in Leonela's room, and on trying to enter to see who it was, he found that the door was held against him, which made him all the more determined to open it; and exerting his strength he forced it open, and entered the room in time to see a man leaping through the window into the street.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I fear we only outstrip the warrior in the sense that we should probably run away from him.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But still she had inclination enough for shewing people again how delightfully Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse danced—for doing that in which she need not blush to compare herself with Jane Fairfax—and even for simple dancing itself, without any of the wicked aids of vanity—to assist him first in pacing out the room they were in to see what it could be made to hold—and then in taking the dimensions of the other parlour, in the hope of discovering, in spite of all that Mr. Weston could say of their exactly equal size, that it was a little the largest.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The servant having examined everything as best he might, reported to Pericone that which was on board; whereupon the latter promptly caused to bring the ladies ashore, together with the most precious things that were in the ship and might be gotten, and carried them off to a castle of his, where, the women being refreshed with food and rest, he perceived, from the richness of her apparel, that the lady whom he had found must needs be some great gentlewoman, and of this he was speedily certified by the honour that he saw the others do her and her alone; and although she was pale and sore disordered of her person, for the fatigues of the voyage, her features seemed to him exceeding fair; wherefore he forthright took counsel with himself, an she had no husband, to seek to have her to wife, and if he might not have her in marriage, to make shift to have her favours.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It has been established by the counter-attack that was instigated to suppress the offensive impulse.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

There was indeed the sound of shouting in the street, and a little group of compositors and pressmen was forming in the hall below and nerving itself to action.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

—What I have said, he began again, refers to beauty in the wider sense of the word, in the sense which the word has in the literary tradition.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Now the time which is thus spent is no less than three years, and is a very considerable portion of life to be passed ill or well.
— from Laws by Plato

You see how it is now; you see how it goes with those who in the simplicity of their hearts wish and desire with moderation.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

They were in their shirt-sleeves and were heavily armed.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

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— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

He understood that they wanted to have the questions in which they were interested treated separately.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

You shal vnderstand that we haue laden in three good shippes of ours these kind of wares following: to wit, in the Swallowe of London, Master vnder God Steuen Burrow, 34 fardels N'o 136 broad short clothes, and foure fardels N'o 58 Hampshire Kersies: and 23 pipes of bastards and seckes, and 263 pieces of raisins and 4 hogsheds N'o 154 pieces of round pewter, and ten hogsheds and poncheons of prunes, and one dryfatte with Almonds.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

" Next comes a great miracle—the opening of the eyes of the blind—which seems to have created quite a sensation in Canada; and still the woman is the subject.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

A tax on all trades and professions, on horses and carriages, a heavy port tax, a vexatious tax on all animals slaughtered, even down to a sucking pig, taxes on the hand-looms used by the women in their spare time, taxes on sugar-mills, rice-mills, on boats and lighters, and on houses; all these and many more were collected.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

In later and more prosperous years I have several times walked into Thompson Street, and from that as a starting-point tried to retrace our walk of that night, bordering along old Greenwich Village, but as well have tried to unravel the mazes of the Cretan Labyrinth.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

Did most of them work in the same plant where he did or did he make other friends out in the community?*
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

And in this order doo communicate with them the Japones, Lechios, those of Samatra, and those of the kingdome of Quachinchina and other borderers vnto them: whereas in their speech or language, there is no more vnderstanding then is betwixt Greekes and Tuskanes.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza