Mr. Meredith spoke first with his usual eloquence and feeling.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Often he uttered exclamations.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

A onelegged sailor crutched himself round MacConnell’s corner, skirting Rabaiotti’s icecream car, and jerked himself up Eccles street.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

There was nothing left, either, of the outbursts of the past—the loud altercations, upbraidings, complaints, and gusts of hatred which had usually ended in my wife’s going abroad or to her own people, and in my sending money in small but frequent instalments that I might sting her pride oftener.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If married life were all that it might be expected to be, looking to the laws alone, society would be a hell upon earth.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

And in art it is the same; all those who have aimed at an absolute perfection have usually ended in a deadness.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to vie with her of Sheba.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS; HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES; WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER BALFOUR OF SHAWS,
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

SYN: Accelerate, animate, revive, reinvigorate, resuscitate, vivify, stimulate, hurry, hasten, urge, excite, promote, expedite.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Betsy also had used every argument to dissuade him from his purpose, but nothing could change it.
— from The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

And on that very day he was awaiting a reply from the stockbrokers' association, with regard to the fixing of a rate of compensation, when his usher entered to tell him that three gentlemen wished to see him in an adjoining room.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

For the boatswain and the men had seen and heard, {424} and they knew that Mr. Van Torp was right, and they respected him, and the foreign impostor had wounded an English woman; and having given his orders, the owner and Lady Maud turned and left Long-legged Levi's brother tied to the chair, in a very dejected state, and his uncertain eyes did not even follow them.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The sickening fear which grips the heart of every miner's wife, when she sees that procession from the pit before the proper quitting hour, lay heavy upon each one.
— from The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

We hung up every extra mat, and fastened them securely with the store of wooden pegs and pins prepared for that purpose.
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer

Had I been left unencumbered by special directions I should have been tempted to leave his domestic history untouched except on the outside, and have attempted to make a complete biography out of the general materials.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Edward FitzGerald

The lantern he had used earlier had vanished during the wild ride so Jason dug out another one of his own construction.
— from The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

Myra picked him up, examined him anxiously to see if he were hurt, and, finding he was not, sat him down again.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

[671] "The buke of John Maundeuill, being the travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, 1322-56, a hitherto unpublished English version from the unique copy (Eg. MS. 1982) in the British Museum, edited together with the French text," by G. F. Warner; Westminster, Roxburghe Club, 1889, fol.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

We have not acted wisely towards those who are without unless we have used every opportunity to draw them in.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren