The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Time passed on, and the two young people had agreed to be married when Vampa should be twenty and Teresa nineteen years of age.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Directly each of these young people had done, he or she made promptly for the door with such an expression of animation as I have rarely observed in a shop assistant before.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Again in a dissertation on Henry VI. : ‘The malignant Ben, does indeed, in his Devil’s an Ass , 1616, sneer at our author’s [166] historical pieces, which for twenty years preceding had been in high reputation, and probably were then the only historical dramas that had possession of the theatre; but from the list above given, it is clear that Shakespeare was not the first who dramatized our old chronicles; and that the principal events of English History were familiar to the ears of his audience, before he commenced a writer for the stage.’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

After the young plants have gained their start, they are cultivated frequently, principally to keep out the weeds, to destroy pests, and to aerate the earth.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart There’s no harm done.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

When the term of his consulship had expired, upon a motion being made in the senate by Caius Memmius and Lucius Domitius, the praetors, respecting the transactions of the year past, he offered to refer himself to the house; but (16) they declining the business, after three days spent in vain altercation, he set out for his province.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

His relatives, his old friends, he himself, here and there in his works, have furnished us in their letters enough valuable revelations and touching remembrances of the years preceding his literary debut.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"You have inflicted upon me that mortifying reiteration, somewhat often," replied D'Aubin; "and perhaps I am not wrong when I ask, whether the want of love towards your promised husband in the past and the present, has not originated in love for another?"
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The vinegar plant, which is closely allied to the yeast plant, has a similar effect upon dilute alcohol, causing it to absorb the oxygen of the air, and become converted into vinegar; and Liebig's eminent opponent, Pasteur, who has done so much for the theory and the practice of vinegar-making, himself suggests that in this case— "La cause du phénomène physique qui accompagne la vie de la plante réside dans un état physique propre, analogue à celui du noir de platine.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

"They affect solidarity and secrecy, these young people," he said, with a sneer, "and their solidarity betrays their secrecy, because it is unfortunately true in our dear Rome that wherever two or three are gathered together they are engaged in some mischief.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

As the years passed he began to pity the poor creature; but when he found himself growing too soft-hearted he would shake his head firmly and say to himself,— "It will not do.
— from The Flower Princess by Abbie Farwell Brown

As the years passed, his good name, if he kept it, would diffuse itself over a wider [196] area with a more pungent effect, so that the day of his death would be better than the his birth—to leave a good name being so much more honourable than to inherit one (chap.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

Then we talk over parties, if the young people have been out of an evening,—a book, if we have been reading one; we discuss and analyze characters,—give our views on all subjects, æsthetic, theological, and scientific, in a way most wonderful to hear; and, in fact, we sometimes get so engaged in our discussions that every spark of the fire burns out, and we begin to feel ourselves shivering around the shoulders, before we can remember that it is bed-time.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In company with the young people, he strolled through the alleys: the linden-trees had not grown much older and taller during the last eight years, but their shade had become more dense; on the other hand, all the shrubs had sprung upward, the raspberry-bushes had waxed strong, the hazel copse had become 301 entirely impenetrable, and everywhere there was an odour of thickets, forest, grass, and lilacs.
— from A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

In spite of this melancholy, he was at that time the uncontested king of English letters; a life-long friendship bound him to Gower [557] ; the young poets, Hoccleve, Scogan, Lydgate, came to him and proclaimed him their master.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand