She feared it was what every body else must think of and predict.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

All, in a word, sloped and softened to the south; and yet the whole vale was engirdled by eminences, more or less high, except at two points.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Pierre had gone to Petersburg on business of his own for three weeks as he said, but had remained there nearly seven weeks and was expected back every minute.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The thought of the horrors that must follow if this failed, and the awful fate at the hands of the fanatic and cruel Chinese soldiery which must befall the women and children, was ever before each member of the force, as day by day, for over nine weeks, day and night he guarded his post, cut off from the world outside and with hardly a hope of rescue.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

It has been said, and truly said, that "the nation which commences by exporting food will end by exporting men."
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey

But, in my new residence, I was excited by every motive of interest and novelty to study my master's character; and I found in it an ample field for speculation and conjecture.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

When this protestation was submitted to congress, they immediately ordered that it should be kept secret, and that M. Gérard should be informed of this order, which General Washington was charged with executing by every means in his power.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Heathen Worship was gradually extinguished; and, though no one was compelled to come to Church, every person on Aniwa, without exception, became ere many years an avowed worshipper of Jehovah God.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton

The road was extremely bad, excessively muddy from the rain of yesterday, trodden deeply by the hoofs of herds of cattle, and by the feet of the thousands that had formed Kamrasi's army and camp followers.
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

There it remained for some five or six hours, when, removing it, the skin came off without difficulty, and it presented a very tempting dish, and was enjoyed by every member of the party.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

[27] —Apologies for Home Rule drawn from foreign experience, deference due to the popular will, from the historical failure of England to govern Ireland with success and the like, have about them when employed by English members of Parliament a touch of unreality; they are reasons meant to satisfy the hearer, but do not convince the speaker.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey

But I constantly met Germans who said Germany might be friends with England but England made it impossible.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring