As to my being dressed like this, and carrying a bundle, there’s nothing surprising in that—the fact is, my circumstances are not particularly rosy at this moment.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[With reference to the large Tibetan partridge found in the Nan-shan Mountains in the meridian of Sha-chau by Prjevalsky, M. E. D. Morgan in a note ( P. R. Geog.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But a circumstance which has been left out of view by those who contend for such a limit seemed to me, although no positive refutation of their creed, still a point worthy very serious investigation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

STEAMSHIP BALTIC, OFF SANDY HOOK April 10, 1861, 10.30 a.m. via New York Honorable S. Cameron, Secretary of War, Washington Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge-walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effect of heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only being available, and no provisions remaining but pork, I accepted terms of evacuation offered by General Beauregard, being the same offered by him on the 11th inst., prior to the commencement of hostilities, and marched out of the fort, Sunday afternoon, the 14th inst., with colors flying and drums beating, bringing away company and private property, and saluting my flag with fifty guns.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Page 172 manquer , être absent; ne pas réussir.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Therefore it cannot be dogmatically treated for the determinant Judgement, i.e. it is not only impossible to decide whether or not things of nature considered as natural purposes require for their production a causality of a quite peculiar kind (that acting on design); but the question cannot even be put, because the concept of a natural purpose is simply not susceptible of proof through Reason as regards its objective reality.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar’s diamonds, became celebrated later on in judicial accounts.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Another question is, whether, through the loss of a great battle, forces are not perhaps roused into existence, which otherwise would never have come to life.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Only, Clara is so down on me if I am not positively reeking with the latest slang.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Let it not be said that the time for the experiment is already past; for the old age of nations is not like the old age of men, and every fresh generation is a new people ready for the care of the legislator.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Massenet has himself recorded his impressions of Rome in some interesting autobiographical notes published recently in the Century .
— from Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey

Lift up your voices like a trumpet; cry aloud in the cause of humanity, benevolence, philosophy; eloquence can never be directed to a nobler purpose; religion never employed in a more glorious cause; charity never meditate a more exalted flight.
— from White Slavery in the Barbary States by Charles Sumner

His is a new pagan Renaissance with a certain gloss of modernness but with outbursts sometimes patriotic and even revolutionary which the Renaissance lacked.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Many animadversions have been cast upon him for not improving his victory in this manner; but the reason appeared clear: his object was to make peace with the Emperor Alexander, and the butchery of the broken battalions of the Russian guard would in no way have forwarded that object, and no power remained to oppose itself to the immense force under France's victorious warrior.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

But there was one peculiarity, which marks it off from all subsequent epidemics of yellow fever—the sickness was all over the island, so general that few escaped being sick, and was supposed to proceed from the hurtful vapours belched from the many openings of the ground in and near Port Royal.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

A New Prison Régime Six months after our arrival, there came a change of authorities, and with the passing of the years a more enlightened régime was instituted by the Home Office.
— from Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick

Says Trevelyan, "Even after the lapse of a century and a quarter the debates are not pleasant reading for an [Pg 90] Englishman."
— from The Siege of Boston by Allen French

The orators of a national party resemble the rats which wear their teeth away in gnawing the rotten panel; they close up the hole as soon as they smell the nuts and the lard locked up in the royal cupboard.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac