Proceeding to converse on indifferent matters, they walk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagnet, like a military chaplain, says a short grace.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

3. See "The Federalists," Nos. 78-83, inclusive; and a work entitled "Constitutional Law," being a view of the practice and jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, by Thomas Sergeant.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

About his birth, life and death, have multiplied the usual swaddling bands of Japanese legend and tradition, 10 and to his tomb at the temple on Mount K[=o]-ya, the Campo Santo of Japanese Buddhism, still gather innumerable pilgrims.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Presently his face came up, sorrowful but confident.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Perhaps you will give us some betel-nut, some sago, some coco-nuts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Tom was getting a little nervous as Mr. Deane went on speaking; he was conscious of something he had in his mind to say, which might not be agreeable to his uncle, simply because it was a new suggestion rather than an acceptance of the proposition he foresaw.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“No; I have seen him there, since we have been walking here.—It is of no use,” said Biddy, laying her hand upon my arm, as I was for running out, “you know I would not deceive you; he was not there a minute, and he is gone.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Yet, when she stood in unassuming simplicity before us, playing with our children, or with girlish assiduity performing little kind offices for Idris, one wondered in what fair lineament of her pure loveliness, in what soft tone of her thrilling voice, so much of heroism, sagacity and active goodness resided.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Whether the whole affair was a figment of Shelley’s brain, rendered more than usually susceptible by laudanum taken to assuage intense physical pain; whether it was a perilous hoax played upon him by the Irish servant, Daniel Hill; or whether, as he himself surmised, the crime was instigated by an unfriendly neighbour, it is impossible to say.
— from Shelley by John Addington Symonds

Parmenter plunged into the vortex of speculation, went under sometimes, but always came to the top again with a few more millions in his insatiable grasp, and these millions, after the manner of their kind, had made more millions, and these still more, until he gave up the task of measuring the gigantic pile and let it grow.
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

There were at this place 120 wounded Union soldiers besides several hundred wounded Confederates.
— from Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons by William W. Day

His word to us is, "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

He insists upon seeing both Miss Mohr and Miss Gordon.
— from The Brownie Scouts at Windmill Farm by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

On the eminence which commands the white little town dropped amid the old forest, over against the red roofs of the palace vying in richness with the turning leaves, in sight of a view in its own kind unsurpassed, in its own charm unequalled, Sophy broke the brutal truth which was to end the infatuation of the head of a house old as St. Louis.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

Miss Anthony experienced a great disadvantage in being so far away from her publisher, the more especially as she had to send a chapter at a time, read proofs of each as soon as it was set up, send back corrected proof, get the revises, etc., and she soon found it necessary to spend about half her time in Rochester.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“Yes,” replied D’Artagnan, “let us still be musketeers, and let us retain as our battle-standard that famous napkin of the bastion St. Gervais, on which the great cardinal had three fleurs-de-lis embroidered.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It was provided that available funds should be used in the redemption of United States bonds, and the act recited, “that the faith of the United States is solemnly pledged to the payment of the deposits made in the postal savings depository offices, with accrued interest thereof, as herein provided.”
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

Albert's uncle said: "Bed follows supper as the fruit follows the flower.
— from The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit