After breakfast however, as I was going to my room, I met him in the passage, and then, as I knew that everything must depend on that moment, I forced myself to give it.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

She knew her brother-in-law to be a worthy gentleman, a bold hunter, an intrepid player, enterprising with women, but by no means remarkable for his skill in intrigues.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Only when a boy had attained its ranks did Alexander demand of him what other masters indiscreetly require of mere infants—namely the superior frame of mind which, while never indulging in mockery, can itself bear ridicule, and disregard the fool, and keep its temper, and repress itself, and eschew revenge, and calmly, proudly retain its tranquillity of soul.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Sancho comforted himself with this, and said if that were so the loss of Dulcinea’s letter did not trouble him much, for he had it almost by heart, and it could be taken down from him wherever and whenever they liked.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand striking a bleeding Heart, and in the other, an Hour-Glass; when this was finished and hoisted, they fired all their Guns to salute their Captain and themselves, and then looked out for Prey.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

"To think that she could visit really historic buildings with me, who have spent ten years in the study of architecture, who am constantly bombarded, by people who really count, to take them over Beauvais or Saint-Loup-de-Naud, and refuse to take anyone but her; and instead of that she trundles off with the lowest, the most brutally degraded of creatures, to go into ecstasies over the petrified excretions of Louis-Philippe and Viollet-le-Duc!
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

But the king knowing nothing at all about the proceedings of the enemy, at daybreak broke up his camp and began his advance in pursuance of his original plan, determining to march by way of Stymphalus itself to Caphyae: for it was at that town that he had written to the Achaeans to meet him.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

34-12: The man, Maitra, to whom Lahiri Mahasaya is here referring, afterward became highly advanced in self-realization.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

By his description of the god Dionysus, whom they worshipped in the mountains, Çiva must be intended, and by Herakles, adored in the plains, especially among the Çūrasenas on the Yamunā and in the city of Methora, no other can be meant than Vishṇu and his incarnation Kṛishṇa, the chief city of whose tribe of Yādavas was Mathurā (Muttra).
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

About wrote in a bright, humorous, and interesting style, and his novels have been very popular.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The most accurate source of technical information is a brief historical account in Copperthwaite’s classic Tunnel Shields and the Use of Compressed Air in Subaqueous Works , published in 1906.
— from Tunnel Engineering: A Museum Treatment by Robert M. Vogel

Yet still there was a thrill to add to these, for now a black horse appeared in the picture, a miracle of slender, shimmering grace—and he rushed with flattened ears upon the two twisting, writhing, prostrate figures.
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand

Of two young critics he says: "And they wrote of human merit and human unworthiness and broke hearts as if they were breaking egg-shells."
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

He was a nice fair-haired lad from Shields; and the boy was cast away, and he was picked up by another vessel, and brought here; and I let him have things and lent him money to the amount of a matter of 20 pounds, and he said he would save all and pay me, and he sailed away again, and I never heard of him for nine years.
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat

I looked all around, and not finding her, thought she must have strayed away by herself, and I ran off to school.
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale