And here he burst into a laugh so droll and violent that it made the archdeacon smile.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Sometimes our jailers seemed a little softened at our distress, and for several days together allowed Mr. Judson to come to the house, which was to me an unspeakable consolation.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Sara Rostignol was slit open from the legs to the bosom, and left so to perish on the road between Eyral and Lucerna; Anna Charbonnier was impaled, and carried thus on a pike from San Giovanni to La Torre.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

That is the sum of all, Leonato: Signior Claudio, and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath invited you all.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

It was the remittance-man’s custom to pay his month’s board and lodging straightway—a duty which his landlord did not allow him to forget—then spree away the rest of his money in a single night, then brood and mope and grieve in idleness till the next remittance came.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

( Bretschneider , Peking , 36.)—H. C.] [1] Some years ago, in Calcutta, I learned that a large store of charcoal existed under the soil of Fort William, deposited there, I believe, in the early days of that fortress.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In this case, intermediate varieties between the several representative species and their common parent, must formerly have existed within each isolated portion of the land, but these links during the process of natural selection will have been supplanted and exterminated, so that they will no longer be found in a living state.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And she is not merely a remarkable character and a woman of light and leading; she is also representative of the émancipée , in the best sense of the word.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

She eluded them and despised them—or at least she was committed to the other path from which retreat was now impossible.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Unfortunately, or otherwise, there is a little scattered information which makes us believe that Robert Browning's mother was not so fearful of her son's conduct, nor suspicious as to his breath, as to lie awake nights and keep tab on his hours.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard

Where very high voltage must be developed or received with a three-phase system, the star or Y-connection of each group of three transformers has the advantage of a lower strain on the insulation of each transformer than that with the mesh or Δ-grouping.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

I stayed out there as long as I dared, and we had a lovely stroll along the beach in the moonlight, the waves whispering at our feet as we walked and talked.
— from The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West by Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret) Teskey

"Now," said Clover, brightly, "I'll tell you what you are going to do; and that is to put on your wrapper, make yourself comfortable, and take a long sleep.
— from In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge

There was a long silence again, broken only by the occasional dip of oars, keeping the invisible boat-head to the sea.
— from On the Frontier by Bret Harte

At last she decided on leaving the palace, and {256} returning to my prison, where she soon arrived, weary and heart-broken.”
— from Wonderful Escapes by Frédéric Bernard

Sometimes there was a saucer of fresh raspberry jam brought in by Mrs. Clay, the widowed sister; sometimes a basket of winesap apples; and once a year, on the night before Christmas, a large slice of fruit cake and a very small tumbler of egg-nog.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"So much for your watching and listening!" said she.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol