We already understand why we are scarcely allowed to call him a physician, however much he likes to feel a "saviour" and let himself be worshipped as a saviour.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"We nearly killed you with a stone at the cave," he cried; "but this is better.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

At length, the Priest, with a sigh at the contrast he was about to draw, between the happy spirits we had just seen and the fallen ones of earth, resumed his melancholy History of the Soul.
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

“Oh, there is, eh?” observed Wiley, and, snatching away the certificates, he ran them rapidly over.
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

Pulteney continued to be on seemingly good terms with Walpole, and shortly afterwards the comparatively humble post of Cofferer to the Household was offered to him—some say was asked for by him.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

Lechworthy watched him with a smile, and then closed his own eyes.
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain

Again, the large lop-eared rabbits have bodies of nearly the same weight and size as the common hare, but their heads are longer; consequently, if the lop-eared rabbits had been wild, it might have been expected that their skulls would have had nearly the same capacity as that of the skull of the hare.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

There were already sharks about the carcass, half a dozen or more, attracted in some mysterious way.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins

Grace was accordingly said, and the company having taken their seats, Mrs. Harrison began carving.
— from The Tell-Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

They fell bravely to work, as soon as the compliment had been passed of p. 119 asking the eldest of the visitors to say grace.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

And I was awfully snippy about those calves he lost.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower