One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through it.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

She disappeared in a kind of sulphurous apotheosis, and when a few years later Medora again came back to New York, subdued, impoverished, mourning a third husband, and in quest of a still smaller house, people wondered that her rich niece had not been able to do something for her.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

It was certainly more agreeable to have an ill-natured humpback as a companion than to stand looking out of the study window at the rain, and kicking his foot against the washboard in solitude; something would happen every day,–"a quarrel or something"; and Tom thought he should rather like to show Philip that he had better not try his spiteful tricks on him .
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

where I had to relate the violent proceedings of Philip in destroying the colonnades and other sacred objects at Thermus; and added that, in consideration of his youth, the blame of these measures ought not to be referred to Philip so much as to his advisers; I then remarked that the life of Aratus sufficiently proved that he would not have 520 committed such an act of wickedness, but that such principles exactly suited Demetrius of Pharos; and I promised to make this clear from what I was next to narrate.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Her feet seemed to drag as she moved about the house, and I got up from the table where I was studying and went to her, asking if she didn’t feel well, and if I couldn’t help her with her work.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Whilst through his representatives at the Court of France he was able to create discord between Versailles and Vienna and bring discredit on Marie Antoinette, through his allies in the masonic lodges and in the secret societies he was able to reach the people of France.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In the evening to sing psalms, and in come Mr. Hill to see me, and then he and I and the boy finely to sing, and so anon broke up after much pleasure, he gone I to supper, and so prayers and to bed. 14th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[4748] to be a disease or melancholy vexation, or anguish of mind, in which a man continually meditates of the beauty, gesture, manners of his mistress, and troubles himself about it: desiring, (as Savanarola adds) with all intentions and eagerness of mind, to compass or enjoy her,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The German paid no more attention to him, and it made him angry.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

As has been already noted, there were natives of the Highlands of Scotland, who had made America their home and imbibed the principles of political liberty, and early identified themselves with the cause of their adopted country.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Madame Higgin says on this subject: "Spanish women are great dressers, and the costumes seen at the race meetings at the Hippodrome and in the Parque are elaborately French, and sometimes startling.
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

In March of 1915 he was visiting the Prime Minister at Walmer Castle; one afternoon Mr. Asquith took him aside, informed him of the Dardanelles preparations and declared that the Allies would have possession of Constantinople in two weeks.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

I have been more disposed to resent it as I have seen it practised upon others, where I have been better able to judge of the extent of the mischief, and the heartlessness and idiot folly it discovered.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

Their eyes met and warred for a moment, and then he added: “I remember!
— from Mrs. Falchion, Complete by Gilbert Parker

The sewage pollution of the Potomac is much less than that of the Merrimac and the Hudson, and it is perhaps not surprising that this relatively small amount of pollution was less potent in causing typhoid fever than the greater pollution of rivers draining more densely populated areas.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation. by American Society of Civil Engineers

I cannot, however, omit to mention the extreme courtesy and hospitality with which I was met at the Henderson Agency itself.
— from Across America by Motor-cycle by C. K. Shepherd

We all thanked him again and again for his generosity; but he would hear nothing of thanks, as he said the goods belonged to me as much as to him, and in giving away the greater portion he was only acting in a just spirit, in which he declared generosity had no part.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

"Very good," said he; "then I shall see a magistrate and tell him all I know."
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

Yet we are asked to believe that Alexander, who had the best of guides in his pay, and who knew the highways and byways of Asia as well, if not better, than they are known now to any military authorities, took his army in winter up the Helmund valley till it struck its sources somewhere under the Koh-i-Baba!
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir