He then came to London, where he has been very idle; and now he is going to Utrecht, where he will be as idle as ever.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

We suggest the following strategy: Step 1: Locate sources that provide relevant information, Step 2: Check if the information from these sources is at a satisfactory level of details, and that the volume is acceptable (not too much, neither too little).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

For the early worshipper was none other than the village idiot, a nephew of the blacksmith, one who neither would nor could care for the church or for anything else.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“Indeed it is,” cried she, in a low voice, “I am nerve all over!”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Bacon attacked the old learning and logic as purely controversial, having to do with victory in argument, not with discovery of the unknown.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And all this time the boat was paddling steadily out to sea and away from the fight; and when at last the confusion cleared, the drifting bank of black vapour intervened, and nothing of the Thunder Child could be made out, nor could the third Martian be seen.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

His letters were such a comfort, for the home letters were very irregular and not half so satisfactory as his when they did come.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

That is my idea of good breeding; and those persons who fancy themselves very important, and never open their mouths, quite mistake the matter.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

—Vadra, Vadrangi, or Vadla is a name of a sub-division of Telugu Kamsalas, the professional calling of which is carpentering.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Likewise, in her youth she had been comely, and a player of the clavichord, and able to speak a little French; but, owing to long residence with a husband whom she had married purely for love, she had grown rusty in those accomplishments, and forgotten alike her French and her music; she loved and feared her son to a degree almost beyond expression; she deputed the management of her property entirely to Vasili Ivanitch, and never interfered with it, but would fall to gasping, and waving her handkerchief about, and affrightedly raising her eyebrows, whenever her helpmeet happened to broach some new plan or some necessary reform which he had in his mind's eye; and, lastly, she was of so apprehensive a temperament that she lived in constant fear of some unknown misfortune, and would burst into tears should any one mention anything of a mournful character.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Verily I am needy and poor; therefore, I pray ye, relieve my calamity and my wretchedness.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

cried the rector, with his voice in a new octave, and his eyes fixed in astonishment on the first page of the newspaper.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

'Oh, Jerrie,' Harold exclaimed, in a low, pained voice, 'I am not tired, let us both walk,' and going to Maude he said something to her which Jerrie could not hear, except the words, 'Don't you think it better so?'
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

She represented the vanities; she was vanity itself; and now he was recklessly, contumaciously, glad of it.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

Voice is a necessity for a singer, but it rests with her what she will do with it, how she will develop it.
— from Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others by Harriette Brower

It is said that a very ingenious American, named Drawbaugh, had anticipated all the inventors of every part of the telephone system; that he had invented a receiver before Bell; that he had invented the compressed carbon arrangement before Edison; that he had invented the microphone before our friend Professor Hughes; and that, in fact, he had done everything on the face of the earth to establish the claims set forth.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

This shows that there is virtue in a name when applied to the extract of sarsaparilla root; and there may be equal virtue in it when applied to a compromise bill.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

In this particular emergency, which touched his very life, Moses vented his disappointment and vexation in a number of interviews which he pretended to have had with the “Lord,” and which he retailed to the congregation, just at the moment when they needed, as Joshua perceived, to be steadied and encouraged.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams