And don't expect any one to take your part: the others, your companions, will attack you, too, to win her favour, for all are in slavery here, and have lost all conscience and pity here long ago.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Hernani" was in the regular "stock" of the Théâtre Français, "Rigoletto" (Le Roi s'Amuse) always at the Italian opera-house, while the same subject, under the title of "The Fool's Revenge," held, as it still holds, a high position on the Anglo-American stage.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Derenbourg also, after using similar language, adds this wise caution, ‘In any case, in the present state of our acquaintance with the Essenes, which is so imperfect and has no chance of being extended, the greatest prudence is required of science, if she prefers to be true rather than adventurous, if she has at heart rather to enlighten than to surprise’ (p. 461).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Then an idea struck him, and he said: “Come with me.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

“If you wish it,” he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Thence with Mr. Creed, whom I called at his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could not, it being morning, get to see the Archbishop’s hearse: so he and I walked over the fields to Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half an hour in Mary Overy’s Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I soon grew as poor as a rat, and, having a wife and children to provide for, my burdens at length became intolerable, and I spent hour after hour in reflecting upon the most convenient method of putting an end to my life.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And don't expect anyone to take your part: the others, your companions, will attack you, too, win her favour, for all are in slavery here, and have lost all conscience and pity here long ago.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It'll all come out time enough, and more than time enough, without our help; so, as I said, hould a hard cheek about it.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

he must have eyes all round his head, for he saw me just as soon as I saw him, and he and Frenchy separated like a shot.
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

If she have a prudent, loving mother, I think many a little imprudence may be avoided, if a photograph of the dear face is always looking down upon her; and if she have an honoured father, his precepts will be recalled in a similar manner, and insensibly she will be helped on her way, as she was in her girlhood, by the loving counsel she can never be too old to require, live as long as ever she may.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

Gr , again, is singularly heavy and harsh, as in the succeeding cases:— "And grinn'd , terrific, a sardonic look." " Grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile." " Grapple him to thy soul with hooks of steel."
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

"There are no wild beasts, and not many natives, and I shall have a home of my own somewhere.
— from Brought Home by Hesba Stretton

To this day he rises before me, a silent vision, and I see him as he was in that hour when he gave me a parting kiss on our threshold, in the pale gleam of early morning, solemnly glad and in his festal bravery.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

At least I shall not hear your ugly and impertinent voice there, your chatter without sense, and I shall have an hour’s rest from the infinite sweetnesses you scatter over the time when we are obliged to be together.”
— from The art of taking a wife by Paolo Mantegazza

Every day you have been at these nasty executive chambers from nine till five, unless when you've been sitting in that wretched Assembly." "I shall have a holiday now, at any rate," said I, laughing gently under the bedclothes.
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

But when I mentioned the princess' name, he shrugged and laughed, as if something highly amusing had hit him."
— from The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath