The loss on our side at Molino del Rey was severe for the numbers engaged.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I looked at him—merely looked at him—with my sense of his amazing assurance, and my dawning resolution to ring for Louis and have him shown out of the room expressed in every line of my face.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Old wills will yield much information, many of which are in course of publication by the Index Society, and county archaeolgical journals; and Somerset House and many diocesan registries contain the original documents.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

“You will hear that at M. de R——‘s, where I shall await you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Half an hour afterwards M. de Richelieu asked me which of the two actresses pleased me most by her beauty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Raymond, the deliverer of Greece, the graceful soldier, who bore in his mien a tinge of all that, peculiar to her native clime, Evadne cherished as most dear— Raymond was loved by Evadne.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is a strange thing to see that, while my Lords Douglas and Middleton do ride up and down upon single horses, my Lord Bruncker do go up and down with his hackney-coach and six horses at the King’s charge, which will do, for all this time, and the time that he is likely to stay, must amount to a great deal.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I would have saved Madame de Saint-Méran, if science could have done it; but she is dead and my duty regards the living.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When he entered the large room, lined and carpeted with fine mats, and with a high ceiling of white sheeting, where the couple sat in state surrounded by a most deferential retinue, he would make his way straight to Doramin, to kiss his hand—which the other abandoned to him, majestically—and then would step across to stand by his mother’s chair.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The officer in command of the battery when it left Fort Ridgeley was Captain and Brevet Major John C. Pemberton, U. S. A. He had won his brevet by gallant services in action at Monterey and Molino del Rey.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

With a goodly company I sailed eastward, and after many days reached land.
— from Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Anonymous

For this reason a short circuited constant field generator, consisting of a metal disc rotating between permanent magnet poles, has been generally adopted.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 07 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

The room was a most delightful retreat from the glaring heat of the day.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

“In a railway accident,” Mr. Dunster repeated.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

They'd probably ask a million dollars ransom for me," and Mr. Period carefully straightened his brilliant red necktie.
— from Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton

"You won't play again, Mr. Darrin," replied the surgeon.
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Only Madame de Ruth, the old courtesan, realised that not love but love's sadness had given that tone to the glorious voice; and Madame de Ruth looked at Zollern, her eyes full of tears, but Zollern leaned his chin on the mythologically ornamented china handle of his stick and revelled in a thrill, a spark of youth's desire, which the younger woman's voice had rekindled.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

will be placed in a more distinguished rank than Henry II.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen