"I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Several eminent geologists, with Sir R. Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

True, there were ugly recollections connected with his first glimpses of the beautiful girl; he could not quite forget the bouquet that withered in her grasp, and the insect that perished amid the sunny air, by no ostensible agency save the fragrance of her breath.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore practically every group of juvenile delinquents which ultimately reaches commitment will have a very different aspect with regard to its proportion of mental defectives from that larger group of offenders, apprehended or non-apprehended, of which it was once a part.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Oh! blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day, She, who can love a sister’s charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; She, who ne’er answers till a husband cools,
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

After an unnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as it were unexpectedly rapid, chime—as though some one were suddenly jumping forward.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After an unnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as it were unexpectedly rapid, chime--as though someone were suddenly jumping forward.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Apparently it was to be a rattling sea story, a tale of twentieth-century adventure and romance, handling real characters, in a real world, under real conditions.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

To make the situation clear at once, the above preliminary monologue is intended to convey to the reader the very fundamental idea which underlies Roman Catholicism—as well as I can convey it, his words mean, in short: 'Everything was given over by Thee to the Pope, and everything now rests with him alone; Thou hast no business to return and thus hinder us in our work.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The exiles found in Babylon many of their countrymen, who had been carried there in previous conquests, and were useful, respectable citizens.
— from Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms by P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley

Do—do you s'pose, Tess, that it will hurt him when Uncle Rufus carves?" "My goodness!" exclaimed Neale, "it will hurt us if he doesn't carve the turk.
— from The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Grace Brooks Hill

Tom’s face, which was usually rather comical, assumed a more mirth-loving expression than ever.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

We had a lovely ride up on the Virginia shore since I came back, and yesterday went up Rock Creek and swung back home by the roads where the locust trees were most numerous—for they are now white with blossoms.
— from Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

Scott’s metrical romances, as they were composed with unexampled rapidity, commanded also unexampled prices from the booksellers.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Those Who are Inclined to the Osseous ¶ Every person with a large Osseous element is capable of saving money, of being a faithful worker under right conditions and of withstanding hardship in his work.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

And there were unpleasant reminiscences connected with that day—that unacknowledged sense of having been entrapped—that impossibility of forgetting his sister’s expostulation—that disgust at being conspicuous—that longing for an excuse for flying into a passion—that universal hatred of everything belonging to the Mosses.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

At first I was a little scared, my mind being in the tune for wonders; but presently the white hair, whiter from the blackness of the bog between us, showed me that it was Uncle Reuben come to look for me, that way.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

These golden opinions were gained not by self-advertisement, for the sub was unusually reticent concerning his profession, but by sheer hard work and a consistent application to that great deity that should always be before the eyes of all true subjects of the King--Duty.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"I wouldn't give much for the discipline of his regiment," began Kate Erlton impulsively, then paused, certain of her hearers, uncertain of herself; for she was of those women who use religion chiefly as an anodyne for the heartache, leaving her intellect to take care of itself.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel