Kitty was puzzled and piqued by these changes, and being a born flirt tried all her powers on David, veiled under guileless girlishness.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

I was not long after him in leaving the house too, and when I went down the High Street I saw him holding forth (no doubt to the same effect) at his shop door to a select group, who honored me with very unfavorable glances as I passed on the opposite side of the way.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

the vital, universal, giant force resistless, sleepless, calm, Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy, How ill to e'er forget thee!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

‘ Voilà un garçon bien éveillé!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Troubles were bound to come, and the people of Biñan, knowing the ways of the world, would soon be likely to complain and demand the changes which would avoid them; the residents of less worldly wise communities would wait and suffer till too late, and then in blind wrath would wreak bloody vengeance upon guilty and innocent alike.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

By this chart our observation was drawn to the river Guacasualco, and as we were well acquainted with [Pg 274] all the harbours and indentures there noted down, from our voyage under Grijalva, but knew nothing of that river, which the Mexicans described as very broad and deep, Cortes determined also to send some one there to make soundings at its mouth, and further explore the country; Diego de Ordas, a man of great intelligence and courage, offered himself for this purpose, if two of our men, and some Mexicans, might accompany him.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

We have a very unexpected guest with us at present, my dear Mother: he arrived yesterday.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Has it ever happened before—or since—that a celebrated person who had spent exactly half of a fairly long life in the village where he was born and reared, was able to slip out of this world and leave that village voiceless and gossipless behind him—utterly voiceless., utterly gossipless?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Her face was very friendly and her sharp voice unusually gentle as she said,— "We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

These two left England upon the Coast, sail’d to the West-Indies , where they took some Prizes, clean’d, and sail’d to Brasil in November ; they took several Portuguese Ships there, and did a great deal of Mischief, but in the height of their Undertakings, a Portuguese Man of War, which was an excellent Sailor, came a very unwelcome Guest to them, and gave them Chace; the Queen Ann’s Revenge got off, but was lost a little while after upon that Coast; and the Flying King , giving herself over for lost, ran ashore: There were then 70 Men on Board, 12 of which were kill’d, and the rest taken Prisoners, of whom the Portuguese hang’d 38, of which 32 were English , three Dutch , two French , and one of their own Nation.
— 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

The T AWNY G OOSE V ULTURE ( Gyps fulvus ), the only species inhabiting Europe, is about forty-one inches long, and ninety-nine broad; the wing measures twenty-six, and the tail eleven inches.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

The knowledge of this fact was from the first a very useful guide in the study of the subject of trepanation, and eagerly pursued researches constantly confirm it.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

His acquaintance with the country, and his connection by marriage with Ferhan the Shammar chief, rendered him a very useful guide and companion in a journey through the Desert.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

"Pour toi, France, un dauphin doit naître, Une Princesse vient pour en être témoin, Sitôt qu'on voit une grâce paraître, Croyez que l'amour n'est pas loin.[3]" Marie Antoinette herself was scarcely disappointed at all.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Evander gave him a glance, and then, returning to Brilliana, said, with a manner of amused contempt, “You have a very ungracious gardener.”
— from The Lady of Loyalty House: A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

" At this juncture Governor Harry Vane unfortunately gave to the existing difficulties a political aspect.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

He made his way from the wretched clay fields of Zeredah to Jerusalem, and there became one of the vast undistinguished gang who were known as "slaves of Solomon."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The hundreds of Bedouins mounted on camels and horses, and the quantity of Arab cavalry interspersed with soldiers in various uniforms, give a very peculiar air to Mostaganem.
— from The French in Algiers The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader by Clemens Lamping

I wished him to become acquainted with his new life, which would not prevent him seeing a great deal of Katherine in London, and then to visit them in Ireland, as you visited us, George; and then, when I was settling everything in the most delightful manner, what he was to do when he was kept up very late at the House, which is the only part I don’t like, and begging him to be very strict in making his servant always have coffee ready for him, very hot, and a cold fowl too, or something of the sort, he tells me, to my infinite astonishment, that the vacancy will not immediately occur, that he is not sorry for it, as he thinks it may be as well that he should go abroad.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

At the time of these occurrences Mrs. Merrill's husband was absent, serving as a volunteer under General Claiborne.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston