Him

Examples

• For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You ought not to have come today, she said in an altered voice; and suddenly she turned, flung her arms about him and pressed her lips to his. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Father's a sweeter singer than ever; you'd never have forgotten it, if you'd aheard him just now. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Nothing, he said, can be more just than such a description of him. Plato. The Republic.
• But afterwards I shall be nothing to him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We have been on the look-out for him, and there was some idea that he had got away to America. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was not good for him to talk too much, and when he was silent, we were silent too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We went to the 'commissionaire' of the hotel--I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to--and told him we wanted a guide. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I warrant you she'd go to him fast enough without. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Sherman ranked him as a brigadier-general. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His manner appeared to have altered strangely in the interval since I had last seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And after this cry and strife the sun may rise and see him worsted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Editor: Randolph