Not a whisper, Mr. Hartright, has ever reached me, or my family, against him.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“I’m Jane’s first cousin,” he explained, returning the lawyer’s keen gaze.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Meanwhile Phaeacia's peers in council sate; From his high dome the king descends in state; Then with a filial awe the royal maid Approach'd him passing, and submissive said: "Will my dread sire his ear regardful deign, And may his child the royal car obtain?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Mr. Stevens, in acquainting the brother of the traveller with the fact of his having received a new zoological collection which had been consigned to him, says, “I can truly say that the insects and shells equal, if they do not surpass, any in the most beautiful collections I have ever received, and show clearly what a marvellously rich country for the naturalist lies between Siam and Cochin-China.”
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Would I could be one, That I might toss her palace 'bout her ears, Root up her goodly forests, blast her meads, And lay her general territory as waste As she hath done her honours.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The next century saw him and his lady dining in a room apart from his servants, a custom which was much satirised by the author of Piers Ploughman , who wrote— “Now hath each rich a rule To eaten by themselve, In a privy parlour For poor man sake, Or in a chamber with a chimney; And leave the chief hall, That was made for meals Men to eaten in.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Is it not glorious?" I think that I must have been rather overacting my delight, and that she detected a hollow ring in my congratulations, for I saw her eyebrows rise a little, and she glanced at me curiously.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The barn was empty when the horses turned into it and, after giving them the most perfunctory ministrations they had ever received from him, he strode up to the house and pushed open the kitchen door.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

"He never was a good sleeper, and his ears reach to the street.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

But his earliest reflections on political power belong to a later date, and are inspired, not so much by the vague ideals of humanitarianism, as by the spirit of national patriotism.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He early recognized that where there is no advancement there has been no effort, and putting forth earnest and persistent effort, he has passed many others who perhaps started out ahead of him on life's journey.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

He eventually retired to Canterbury, after his expulsion from Kilkenny by the Catholics, and there he died, in 1563.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

(out of his excessive regard for the interests of morality) occasionally departed from this rule.
— from The Roman Question by Edmond About

For several hours the dying woman had lain in a stupor, and no one expected her to speak again; but she opened her eyes, recovered consciousness, and, seeing the sorrowful faces around her, she spoke.
— from Honest Wullie; and Effie Patterson's Story by Lydia L. Rouse

Uno modo secundum quod iste ordo est adinventus per intellectum, et attributus ei, quod relative dicitur; et hujusmodi sunt relationes quae attribuuntur ab intellectu rebus intellectis, prout sunt intellectae, sicut relatio generis et speciei; has enim relationes ratio adinvenit considerando ordinem ejus, quod est in intellectu ad res, quae sunt extra, vel etiam ordinem intellectuum ad invicem.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Had he ever really loved her?
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

He en revanche supplied them with abundant food for censure, being wilful from the first, and given in those early years to consorting with stable-boys and picking up their manners and modes of speech.
— from Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch

She had warned me to walk as if I had every right to be there, and I strode after her as if we were simply going to an agreed-on meeting in the next room.
— from The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley