She was looking forward to a period of unbroken rest, now, and undisturbed tete-a-tete with her husband, when he informed her that Gouvernail was coming up to stay a week or two.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

For the benefit of some who had no papers, one of us read the telegram aloud, while all listen'd silently and attentively.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But many years before Lucilius was born, Nævius had been flung into a dungeon, and guarded there with circumstances of unusual rigor, on account of the bitter lines in which he had attacked the great Caecilian family.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"But he won't bite you if you do dream of him," the German retorted gallantly, and was the first to laugh at his own jest, but none of us responded. "Come, Semyon Semyonitch," said Elena Ivanovna, addressing me exclusively, "let us go and look at the monkeys.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As has been mentioned in considering the pathogenesis of human scurvy, Eijkman demonstrated that hens developed polyneuritis, a disease resembling beriberi, when fed on polished rice, and that the simple change to a diet of unpolished rice, or the addition of rice polishings to the dietary, sufficed to protect or to cure.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

You must cower before the wedding ring like the rest of us, Ramsden.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

A conspiracy was at length formed against his life, at the head of which was his own uncle, Robert Stewart, Earl of Athol, who, being too old himself for the perpetration of the deed of blood, instigated his grandson, Sir Robert Stewart, together with Sir Robert Graham, and others of less note, to commit the deed.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Differences in nationality, founded on race and habitat, must always subsist; but what has been superadded artificially by ignorance and bigotry may be gradually abolished in view of universal relations better understood.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But here they depart from the principles on which they justify their study of hypothetics; for they base the importance which they assign to hypothetics upon the fact of their being a preparation for the extraordinary, while their study of Unreason rests upon its developing those faculties which are required for the daily conduct of affairs.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“You keep your money in rubles?” “Hell no—no one uses rubles except tourists.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

A mere handful of regulars, the few volunteers that had got through before the outbreak in Baltimore, and a small number of Union residents and Government department clerks—these, under General Winfield Scott, constituted the paltry force that, for ten days after the Call for troops, held the National Capital.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

“I fear he will stand still, and not attempt to go ahead of us,” replied Karl.
— from The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid

As long as each mother dotes and gloats upon her own children, knowing no others, so long this animal passion overestimates or underestimates real human qualities in the child.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“He is the right sort of fellow,” observed Uncle Richard; “we may trust him.”
— from In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Oh, Uncle Richard!" cried Noll, "I knew the time would come some day!
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

It seems to speak not of universal reception of Christ's message, but of some as hearing and some as forbearing.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

The evil consequences of imperfect instruction, the evil consequences of pernicious neglect, the evil consequences of unnatural restraint and the denial of humanising enjoyments, will all come from us, and none of them will stop with us.
— from Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

He is clothed in a spotted skin, having a shepherd's crook in one hand, and his pipe of unequal reeds in the other, and is crowned with pine, that tree being sacred to him.
— from Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. (Charles Knapp) Dillaway

Every thing was destroyed: houses, people, and trees, shared one universal ruin.
— from Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux