But the captain and the professor still ran in Mr. Badger's head, and as Ada and I had the honour of being under his particular care, we had the full benefit of them.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

_Nous avons donc chez nous un homme peu connu de nous.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Those which he published of Pope and Addison are of higher merit; but his fame must chiefly rest upon his Political Conferences, in which he introduces several eminent persons delivering their sentiments in the way of dialogue, and discovers a considerable share of learning, various knowledge, and discernment of character.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

THE NYMPH: (With a cry flees from him unveiled, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of stench escaping from the cracks.) Poli...!
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Through the thin haze of my cigar-smoke I noted the details of a face which was already familiar to me from many photographs—the strongly-curved nose, the hollow, worn cheeks, the dark, ruddy hair, thin at the top, the crisp, virile moustaches, the small, aggressive tuft upon his projecting chin.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

They maliciously rake out from obscurity every little circumstance which may throw ridicule upon his private c
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

MAV: Now out upon him, prodigious creature!
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

The Major now saw his Folly, but could not help himself, which made him Melancholy; he reflected upon his past Course of Life, and was confounded with Shame, when he thought upon what he had done: His Behaviour was taken Notice of by the other Pyrates, who liked him never the better for it; and he often declared to some of them, that he would gladly leave off that Way of Living, being fully tired of it; but he should be ashamed to see the Face of any English Man again; therefore if he could get to Spain or Portugal , where he might be undiscovered, he would spend the Remainder of his Days in either of those Countries, otherwise he must continue with them as long as he lived.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Hard therefore was it, and perhaps, in the opinion of many sagacious readers, very absurd and monstrous, that he should principally owe his present misfortune to the supposed want of that delicacy with which he so abounded; for, in reality, Sophia was much more offended at the freedoms which she thought (and not without good reason) he had taken with her name and character, than at any freedoms, in which, under his present circumstances, he had indulged himself with the person of another woman; and to say truth, I believe Honour could never have prevailed on her to leave Upton without her seeing Jones, had it not been for those two strong instances of a levity in his behaviour, so void of respect, and indeed so highly inconsistent with any degree of love and tenderness in great and delicate minds.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But that with constant zeale, and courage bold, After long paines and labours manifold, He found the meanes that Prisoner up to reare; Whose feeble thighes, unhable to uphold His pined corse, him scarse to light could beare.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

She had dropped her weapon the instant the officers appeared upon the scene, too weak and spent to hold it longer, and now lay white and panting upon her pillows, consciousness almost forsaking her now that the reaction had come.
— from The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

—all of which sustained Bottazzi in his belief that these activities were absolutely under her psychic control, just as the synchronism of movements convinced him that she was 'the physiologic factor in the case.'
— from The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland

THE FIRST STRUGGLE CHAPTER II THE WRECK CHAPTER III A FUEL PROBLEM CHAPTER IV MONTGOMERY'S OFFER CHAPTER V MONTGOMERY USES HIS POWER CHAPTER VI LISTER MEETS AN OLD ANTAGONIST CHAPTER VII BARBARA'S REFUSAL CHAPTER VIII CARTWRIGHT GETS TO WORK CHAPTER IX LISTER MAKES GOOD CHAPTER X BARBARA TAKES CONTROL CHAPTER XI LISTER'S REWARD PART I—BARBARA'S REBELLION CHAPTER I CARTWRIGHT MEDDLES
— from Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss

It will be hard to forget the blind poet, as he was represented on the stage by the living poet, so full of kindly humour, of humorous malice, of dignity under his poor clothing, or the wistful, ghostly sigh with which he went out of the door at the end.
— from Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory

Frederick having taken up his position close to the wall, stared at those who were going through the quadrille in front of him.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 by Gustave Flaubert

This time he had no misgivings and congratulated himself upon his professional cleverness in tracking his man down.
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

For Pelle the cruel hands of death hardly existed, and he could not understand how people could lay themselves down with their noses in the air; there was so much to observe here below—the town alone kept one busy.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Franklin [Pg 184] always read the newspapers every morning, and it struck Althea as particularly touching that this good habit should be persevered in under his present circumstances.
— from Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

To have taken a holiday under his present circumstances would, to his thrifty notions, have seemed both a waste of time and a waste of money.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight