But you must not think that the affair is over now; it grows much worse.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Yes, he said, and it ought not to be permitted.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

‘A family and an annual income of nothing, to keep ‘em on,’ said Richard Swiveller after some reflection.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to be immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming, ‘You’re to go to the schoolroom directly , mum, the young ladies is waiting !!’ Climax of horror! actually waiting for their governess!!!
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

But a friend of Feng, gifted more with assurance than judgment, declared that the unfathomable cunning of such a mind could not be detected by any vulgar plot, for the man's obstinacy was so great that it ought not to be assailed with any mild measures; there were many sides to his wiliness, and it ought not to be entrapped by any one method.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

But she might have refused to pick it up, and this is the plan I adopted in order not to risk any unpleasant result.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CYRANO: All is over now!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

For a like reason the Papuans of Tumleo, an island off New Guinea, are careful to throw into the sea the bloody bandages with which their wounds have been dressed, for they fear that if these rags fell into the hands of an enemy he might injure them magically thereby.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Porthos turned aside, in order not to show by his honest round face what was passing in his mind.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The eloquent proclamation, written at Marie's by Jules Favre and Alexander Rey, and addressed in our name to the National Legions, had not been printed.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

On the right side we passed an old village, and then, at the distance of three miles, entered an inlet or niche about six miles across, and making a deep bend of nearly five miles into the hills on the right shore, where it receives the waters of several creeks.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

So far as I observed, none of the half-hundred or more who responded gave Blue Beard , Cinderella , Little Red Riding Hood , or any of the others in the same category that follow here.
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

Though thirty persons were waiting in the antechamber at our arrival, no sooner was my friend's name announced than we were admitted, and I obtained not only more justice than I expected, or dared to claim, but an invitation to Madame Real's tea-party the same evening.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

With its 2d and 3d Battalions in the lead, the 9th Marines drove through its initial objectives quickly and had to slacken its advance in order not to thin out the division’s lines.
— from Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam by Cyril J. O'Brien

An involucre of narrow, pinnately cut bracts.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

Afterward, when Mrs. James and I went to our adjoining bedrooms, I asked her if I had done anything I ought not to have done.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

There is pleasure even in pursuit of anything, no matter whether you ever attain it or not.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But whether I answer it or not must depend upon the reason which you may assign for asking the question.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

In scarcely three pages at the commencement of his compendious work he rejects the myth theory of Bruno Bauer with the favourite appeal to a few individual and historical features of the Gospel tradition which are intrinsically of no significance, finishing up this “refutation” with a reckless citation from Weinel which proves nothing for the historical character of Jesus.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

She remembered the incident perfectly and in our numerous conversations I have repeatedly heard her allude to it.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur