“I furnish the padres everything!” “Well, then,” added Simoun in a low voice, “I need you to get in for me some boxes of rifles that arrived this evening.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Piqued at my not being able to obtain an appointment from her, I contrived one day to catch her at the bottom of a back staircase by which she used to come to my room, and, I must confess, with the intention of using a little violence, if necessary.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The honour in which improvisation was held amongst the Greeks and Romans is due to the fact that Greek and Latin verse is not under the dominion of rhyme.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'The violence of her despair,' said He, 'proves, that at least Vice is not become familiar to her.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

'I desire you will not walk there again at so early an hour unattended,' said Madame Cheron; 'my gardens are very extensive; and a young woman, who can make assignations by moon-light, at La Vallee, is not to be trusted to her own inclinations elsewhere.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And now, Miss Gordon,' said Mrs Osborne, 'if you come with me, I will show you your room.' When his mother and sweetheart had left the room, George went to Kate; and said, in a low voice,--' I never expected my mother to take to Marie so kindly.
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

Fearing that some spy outside would overhear him, he came close to Marie-Anne and said, rapidly, and in a low voice: “I never believed in the success of this conspiracy.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

ce n'est jamais ni un plaisir, ni une distraction, ni même un état normal; il ne la fait qu'après prévenu son ennemi, et, dans le combat ou après la victoire, il n'a pas de cruauté inutile.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

In the above account I have written of a day's sport that took place in a fir plantation in a little village in Norfolk, where it would have been madness to work the ferrets without muzzling them, for they would have been sure to kill some rabbits in the holes and then have laid up; but I should mention that I have killed many rabbits in the same way on the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire, and I was much astonished when I first got [Pg 127] there to find men who thoroughly understood their business working their ferrets under nets without muzzling them.
— from Studies in the Art of Rat-catching by Henry C. Barkley

Without being positively ill, we felt ourselves in a state of languor and weakness, caused by the torment of insects, bad food, and a long voyage, in narrow and damp boats.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

He was a charming fellow, a French Canadian, as his name indicates, and a native of a little village in Normandy.
— from Ten Months in the Field with the Boers by Anonymous

The urgency for the improvement of the eastern portion has been less since the establishment of the railroad from Sanchez to La Vega, and the trail from near the mouth of the Yuna River to San Francisco de Macoris, with the branches from there to Moca and La Vega, is now important only locally.
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

The man who can decline a Greek noun or conjugate a Latin verb is no longer a rarity, because the sons of European tradesmen and American farmers have deserted the pursuits of their progenitors—which, in the case of the American farmers, is to be deplored—and obtained a collegiate education, that is no longer the inheritance of the privileged few, so that in our time and day an academical education has run to seed among the men.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

Literature, properly so called, is quite different from this, and literary values inhere not in things or even in ideas, but in persons.
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

“I was born at Ramsgill, a little village in Netherdale.
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron