It was his early ambition to own the "Philadelphia Ledger" and the great building in which it was published; but how could a poor boy working for $2.00 a week ever hope to own such a great paper?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I went to them, where they told me with much trouble how they had sped, being cast and sentenced to make great reparation for what we had embezzled, and they did it so well that I was much troubled at it, when by and by Sir W. Batten asked me whether I was mortified enough, and told me we had got the day, which was mighty welcome news to me and us all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the Prince and Claudio: Whisper her ear, and tell her, I and Ursala Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse Is all of her; say that thou overheard’st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen’d by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter; like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" As he spoke he made a sign with his eyebrows, and Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped his spear, and stood armed beside his father's seat.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But Schrader, who operated after Munk and with every apparent guarantee of completeness, found that all his pigeons saw after two or three weeks had elapsed, and the inhibitions resulting from the wound had passed away.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The stranger took Mr. Winkle’s measure with his eye, and that feature glistened with satisfaction as he said, ‘Just the thing.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Again, time hanging heavily on his hands, he went home early, and this continued for several days, each day the need to hunt paining him, and each day disgust, depression, shamefacedness driving him into lobby idleness.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

It is beautiful to see that, while he erred as to God's method, he had correctly sensed the secret of His great heart.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

On the other hand, when historical events are told from other districts, and cannot be directly linked with the present, it would be erroneous to imagine that the natives place them into a definite compartment of time different from that of the myth.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Denísov, who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped his eyes at the sight.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To do it we'll want her engines, and there's a heavy job in front of us before we start them.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

For instance, it never would have excited any theological hatred if a man had insisted that God would finally damn everybody.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

"No, he hasn't and I don't belave he intinds to," answered Mary, wiping her eyes and trying to be composed.
— from At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter

Paul devoured her with his eyes, and tried to attract her attention and excite her curiosity, but in spite of his talk and of the manner in which he brought in well-known names, she did not pay the least attention to him.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Whether he did more good to the Irish cause by his patriotism than harm by the passions which he excited and the enmities he created, is a question about which different opinions have been formed.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

He did not forget to mention the one word “Lost,” which had escaped Albert; to his mind, it was a confession.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

Suddenly, to his great relief and joy, he came upon a small troop of soldiers, accompanied by some officers, who had escaped across the river from the battle as he had done.
— from Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

"Before men began to analyze facts," they will say, "and while they indulged in fanciful systems, and satisfied themselves with verbal disputes without critical examination, all this might be true; but now that we have explained all the ideas of moral good and evil, in so perfect a way, and have separated the prejudice in them from the true philosophy; now that the whole system of morality is based upon the simple principles of pleasure and pain, and we have given the clearest ideas of these things, such, for example, as the sensations produced in us by an orange; to maintain your assertion, is to be ungrateful towards science, and to underrate the fruit of our labours."
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

If you won't let her go on with a certain Artifice with her Eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

I repeat that these things can only come after we have established a true craft spirit.
— from Craftsmanship in Teaching by William C. (William Chandler) Bagley