“But what under heavens,” asked Philip, “induced you to come to New York with Laura!
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Honest, faithful, and industrious, Jenny became a law unto herself, and practically illustrated the golden rule of her blessed Lord, “to do unto others as we would they should do unto us.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

iv. ), when I come to deal with the method of Universalistic Hedonism: at present I am only concerned with the question how far any deductive Ethics is capable of furnishing practical guidance to an individual seeking his own greatest happiness here and now.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She took one with an unsteady hand, and putting it to her lips, leaned forward to draw her light from his.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The doctrines of such early works were [ 435 ] reduced to a more concise and practical form by Āryabhaṭa, born, as he tells us himself, at Pāṭaliputra in 476 A.D.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

He gave an angry thrust to his horse, which had grown restive under him, and plunged into the water, heading for the deepest part where the current was swift.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Argument is thrown away upon him; and pity is better reserved for some person with a livelier faith.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

There could be but one answer to the suggestion of Mr. Coventry Patmore that his “Angel in the House” might usefully have a place in this “National Library.”
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

The supreme state, salvation itself, that final goal of universal hypnosis and peace, is always regarded by them as the mystery of mysteries, which even the most supreme symbols are inadequate to express; it is regarded as an entry and homecoming to the essence of things, as a liberation from all [Pg 172] illusions, as "knowledge," as "truth," as "being" as an escape from every end, every wish, every action, as something even beyond Good and Evil.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There was a gentleman present who had seen the Lyndon party go off, with whom I had made a bet, which I lost; and the next morning I called upon him and paid it him.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He dropped it in her lap, but she jumped up hastily and put it back in his hands.
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

When he publicly violated the rule on this point, the Italian enemies of the temporal power of the pope hoped that they had unexpectedly found a cardinal in such a position that they might, by degrees, make him their tool, and use him against Pius IX.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

He forged a will, as that of his grandfather, settling the county upon him, and presented it to the king.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Grimsby now came forward; and unloosing an iron box from under his arm, put it into the hands of Lord Murray.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

Later in the year—in the month of October—the Senate was to confer upon Cesare Borgia the highest honour in her gift, the honour of which the Venetians were jealous above all else—the honour of Venetian citizenship, inscribing his name in the Golden Book, bestowing upon him a palace in Venice and conferring the other marks of distinction usual to the occasion.
— from The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini

We entreated them to let us have another plunge in the sacred Mansarowar, and the three of us were eventually allowed to do so.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Tie a rope to the hook of the scale-beam, where the chains of the scale are usually hung, and pass it through the pulley P 3, which is about four feet from the ground; let the person pull this rope from 1 towards 2, turning his back to the machine, and pulling the rope over his shoulder—Pl.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth