His father, who owes his throne to the King of Siam, is not permitted by that monarch to leave his own country; and as a guarantee of his fidelity, one or two of his sons have always been retained as hostages at the Siamese Court.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The fact was, the general, who had heard first, how Nastasia Philipovna had fled to Moscow and had been discovered there by Rogojin; that she had then disappeared once more, and been found again by Rogojin, and how after that she had almost promised to marry him, now received news that she had once more disappeared, almost on the very day fixed for her wedding, flying somewhere into the interior of Russia this time, and that Prince Muishkin had left all his affairs in the hands of Salaskin and disappeared also—but whether he was with Nastasia, or had only set off in search of her, was unknown.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The other did not answer, but ran after him and gazed at him with the same imploring but yet inflexible expression.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ordinary plain-grown makes a bright roast, and has a fairly good cup quality.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

King Lud flew into a frightful rage, tossed his crown up to the ceiling, and caught it again—for in those days kings kept their crowns on their heads, and not in the Tower—stamped the ground, rapped his forehead, wondered why his own flesh and blood rebelled against him, and, finally, calling in his guards, ordered the prince away to instant Confinement in a lofty turret; a course of treatment which the kings of old very generally pursued towards their sons, when their matrimonial inclinations did not happen to point to the same quarter as their own.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He came running up to the two Ajaxes and said, "I have sent Antilochus to the ships to tell Achilles, but rage against Hector as he may, he cannot come, for he cannot fight without armour.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The same thing is true as between Roumania and Hungary, and perhaps more true.
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

He had not been aware that he was more matter of fact than another, less likely to be affected by romance and historical associations.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Let a buzzard rush at her and seize her.[320] IRIS.
— from The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

Last night my wife had a near collapse after a boy rode a horse across the bridge by our house.
— from Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

This has an air of probability; still it certainly seems that Nietzsche had let himself be captured and seduced by too many ideas, that he had not so much amassed the matter for one book as begun, rather at hazard, a whole series of studies in æsthetics, history, and politics.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

And all at once a burning rage and hate against the kris flared up in him.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

Who can wander through the heaths and mountains of the Scotch Highlands, with their uncanny harmonies of silver mist and grey cloud and glint of water and bare rock and heather, and not see in the distance the Weird Sisters crooning over their horrible cauldron?
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith