That a girl of fourteen, acting only on her own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform, was not wonderful; and Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it led.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

My mother and I were left without a relation in the world except one uncle, Ralph Smith, who went to Africa twenty-five years ago, and we have never had a word from him since.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

All right, little chap, he's only a human, just the same as the rest of us." "Really, sir!" cried the Professor.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

At all events we both felt this was so, for each of us remained silent.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

9. both urgeth and answers), besides the covetousness, imposture, and knavery of priests, quae faciunt (as [6639] Postellus observes) ut rebus sacris minus faciant fidem ; and those religions some of them so fantastical, exorbitant, so violently maintained with equal constancy and assurance; whence they infer, that if there be so many religious sects, and denied by the rest, why may they not be all false?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mrs Verloc, in common with other human beings, was provided with a fund of unconscious resignation sufficient to meet the normal manifestation of human destiny.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

For the characteristic of “unrestfulness” requires some care to distinguish it from “uneasiness,” in the sense in which this latter term signifies some degree of painfulness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

owned university radio stations in the United States.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

The great millstones were left—for ornament, Uncle Richard said; and as for the old iron, he said dryly to Tom, as they stood by the heap— “Seems a pity that so many of these pieces were too heavy to lift.”
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

Going on up Rue St-Martin, we see on both sides numerous features of interest.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

"A great deal of use, Rod," Samms replied, quietly.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

His neighbour replied: "Here we are, two of us remained sitting at table, while the others are in the tomb; well thou knowest that we were thirty-three; it always makes me weep to think of it."
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

Yet still Black George pressed on, untiring, relentless, showering blow on blow, while my arm grew ever weaker and weaker, and the pain in my shoulder throbbed more intensely.
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

12 First he should be a Brahmachárin or unmarried religious student, next a Gṛihastha or householder, than a Vánaprastha or anchoret, lastly a Bhikshu or beggar.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta