I have noticed also that she eats much less, a fact which troubles her father so much that he is anxious to get her home.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The surcingle enveloped my limbs and body close in all directions—save in the path of the destroying crescent.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

At last she espied Mr. Law, and, pulling the string, called out to the coachman, “Upset us now!
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

So ended my last attempt to make any change in Dora.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The tunnel will be some eight miles long, and will develop astonishing riches.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I began my life among them in my father’s nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mr. George, returning, folds his arms, and looking down at the old man, sliding every moment lower and lower in his chair, says quietly, "Now for it!" "Ho!" cries Mr. Smallweed, rubbing his hands with an artful chuckle.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So warped and crooked was his strange nature, that the very handle of his hoe seemed gradually to have shrunk and twisted in his grasp, being a wretched bent stick, elbowed more like a savage's war-sickle than a civilized hoe-handle.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Among the activities scheduled were special exhibitions, sports events, meetings, lectures, and competitions based on ideological themes.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

In the early morning he saw eleven men land and make off in two parties into the forest, leaving three men on guard.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

A STRANGE BETROTHAL Nothing of Dorothy's doing in all her young life had so exasperated Mrs. Lawton as her refusal to drive out with William Henry Bulkley.
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

"And," added Kalinin with animation and inflated cheeks and flushed, suppressed enthusiasm, "many lands and many peoples have I seen, and always have I found (particularly in Russia) that many folk already have reached an understanding of themselves, and, consequently, refused any longer to render obeisance to absurdities.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

she exclaimed, “me, Lily Andrews, have to live in a room like this, when my father’s rich enough to buy me a suite at the McAlpin?”
— from The Girl Scouts at Miss Allen's School by Edith Lavell

And so ended my little adventure—or rather it did not end here, for Fred came back with me when I returned to London.
— from The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

She was eighteen then, and beautiful, or so I was bound to believe, since every man looked at her, even old John Poindexter, though he never looked at any other woman, not even his own wife.
— from The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green