"Everything at your home is well," said Bazarov; "but all are not in good health.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Alone, unguarded, once he dared to go, And feast, incircled by the Theban foe; There braved, and vanquish'd, many a hardy knight; Such nerves I gave him, and such force in fight.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Take their examination yourself, and bring it me: I am now in great haste, as may appear unto you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

No interest group has meaning except with reference to other interest groups; and those other interest groups are pressures; they count in the government process.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Gisumbag pa sa salbáhis nga bána ang íyang asáwa nga ipálid gánig hangínun, The wife was so thin she could have been blown over by a gust of wind, but that didn’t stop her brute of a husband from boxing her.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If, then, a witness does not quickly recall the name of something he is thinking of, but identifies it immediately when the name is given him, you have a natural psychological event which itself has no bearing on the truth or falsity of his testimony.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Now I give him up!—[Aloud.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

What may thy name be, father?" "Please Your Worship," said Little John, in a cracked voice like that of an old man, "my name is Giles Hobble, at Your Worship's service.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously, sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to pointing her prow for home.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The boldness of his attacks on rules which are considered as sacred by the French critics, and on works of which the French nation in general have long been proud, called forth a more than ordinary degree of indignation against his work in France.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Sally Lou, housekeeper born, wheedled the head cook, a courteous, grizzled old negro, into giving her the recipe.
— from The Hallowell Partnership by Katharine Holland Brown

"When night is gone," he answered.
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

After describing the nature of her disease and the care it needed, I gave her the medicine which seemed most suitable.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

If I could see George, now, I guess he could tell me all about it.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

Besides this nutritive apparatus, trichinæ, like nematodes in general, have the sexes divided into two distinct individuals, so that there are males and females, which can be easily distinguished from each other by the size and form of the body.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

You will leave your name in good hands when God calls you to judgment.”
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

The man was not in good humor.
— from Simeon Tetlow's Shadow by Jennette Lee

THE CHANDALAR A new Indian guide had been engaged as far as Coldfoot, and we set out—three men, two toboggans, and seven dogs; four on the larger vehicle and three on the smaller, one of the dogs brought by our guide.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck