So passed half an hour.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When at length she put her arm through mine, to be taken to the drawing-room, her charming little face was flushed, and had never been so pretty.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
When they had thus soon pacified him, as being their father, they got clear of the present fear they were in.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
This caused her husband to take a dislike to her, and he soon placed his affections elsewhere."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
I have consulted the opinion of the sensible persons here and all of them unanimously disapprove Don Filipo’s plan.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
After a slight pause, he added, "But I fear you will think that I am going to be a great deal of trouble to Mr. Garth." "Caleb likes taking trouble: he is one of those men who always do more than any one would have thought of asking them to do," answered Mrs. Garth.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
Thereto, said La Beale Isoud, do your best, and as I can, said La Beale Isoud, I shall purvey horse and armour for you at my device.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
Mahinalangpun kaáyu siyang miúyun sa plánu, He agreed to the plan enthusiastically.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
"The English ambassador at St. Petersburg," he added, "favored me in confidence with an outline of 'Old Pam's' despatch.
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling
I suppose I shall probably have a letter from you tomorrow or Saturday; I consider I ought to have had one.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers
The above clans sometimes practise hypergamy among themselves and also with the other Lodhis, taking daughters from the latter on receipt of a large bridegroom-price for the honour conferred by the marriage.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
Half way up the valley is an Iron Spring, the oxydization from which has gathered together a large amount of red which the Indians still prize highly and use for face paint.
— from The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter by George Wharton James
Then he reclined against his saddle, poured himself a tankard of brandy, and watched the preparations.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover
So profoundly has all society been vulgarized by the worship of the Golden Calf that, unless people can vie with alien millionaires in the sumptuousness with which they "do you"—delightful phrase,—they prefer not to entertain at all.
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell
The red sunbeams pierced here and there between the grey branching stems and through the foliage, and shone full on the figure of Lycidas the Athenian.
— from Hebrew Heroes: A Tale Founded on Jewish History by A. L. O. E.
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