On other subjects indeed Mr. Casaubon showed a tenacity of occupation and an eagerness which are usually regarded as the effect of enthusiasm, and Dorothea was anxious to follow this spontaneous direction of his thoughts, instead of being made to feel that she dragged him away from it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Louis Fourteenth himself once clutched the tongs, and even smote with them; but then it was at Louvois, and Dame Maintenon ran up.—The Queen sits weeping in her inner apartments, surrounded by weak women: she is 'at the height of unpopularity;' universally regarded as the evil genius of France.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He had not proceeded far when he perceived the whole force of the Goths under Roderick advancing to encounter him.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; and the first comer took it upon himself to save society.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Rostóv was struck by the totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on Dólokhov’s face.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Insist upon romance, and the end, I verily believe, is divorce.
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

“That,” said Arthur, “must be in an unused room at the end of the corridor.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

As is the case with less profound natures, the mind grew on what it fed upon; reasoning, and the elucidation of knotty mathematical problems, became her delight; and, by general consent, she ranked as one of the first philosophers of her time, if not indeed the very first.
— from Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

Oval watches, known as "Nuremberg eggs", are usually reckoned among the earliest, but this title was not given to watches till some time after their invention, and as a matter of fact, according to Dr. Rée ( Nürnberg , p. 172), all egg-watches that have been preserved belong to the seventeenth century.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

The vegetation on the islands is richer and more varied up river, and tropical essences (laurel-timbo) are found below the Bajada, forming clumps of trees covered with creepers.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

Sir Charles saluting her with great affection, they all went into Mr. Glanville's chamber, who received his father with the utmost respect and tenderness; extremely regretting the trouble he had been at in taking a journey to the castle upon his account; and gently blaming his sister for her precipitancy in alarming him so soon.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

I’ve been conjuring up romances about them ever since, and I am curious to see if he looks like the Jack Monroe in the song.”
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

Round the cottage a strip almost wild in its profusion of annuals, its unpruned roses, and the encircling shade of tall forest trees which must have stood there long before either the cottage or the pretentious building beyond had been thought of; a strip of garden suggestive, even to a casual observer, of a less conventional fashion of life than is usual in the old country.
— from Miss Stuart's Legacy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Kaiser Karl Lifts his lone voice unheard, athwart the roar Of such a flood; the papal bull is whirled An unconsidered rag amidst the eddies.
— from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

Sentiment as well as other emotions are unmistakably reminiscent, and the enthusiastic admirer of Dickens, none the less than the general lover of a historical past, will derive much pleasure from tracing itineraries for himself among the former sites and scenes of the time, not far gone, of which he wrote.
— from Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield