So we were all as still as night, that he might suppose there was nobody in the room; but the Signor was as cunning as the best of us, and kept calling out at the door, "Come forth, my antient hero!" said he, "here is no enemy at the gate, that you need hide yourself: come forth, my valorous Signor Steward!"
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"I was here fifteen years ago," said I, "but now I am older and more advanced, and I may say in music also"—"Oh!" said the Count, "you are"—I have no idea whom he took me for, as Cannabich interrupted him, but I affected not to hear, and entered into conversation with the others.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And then, for an hour, he became aware of the strange life he was leading, of him doing lots of things which were only a game, of, though being happy and feeling joy at times, real life still passing him by and not touching him.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

13.] Note 4 ( return ) [ Josephus here follows Herodotus, and those that related how Cyrus made war with the Scythians and Massagets, near the Caspian Sea, and perished in it; while Xenophon's account, which appears never to have been seen by Josephus, that Cyrus died in peace in his own country of Persia, is attested to by the writers of the affairs of Alexander the Great, when they agree that he found Cyrus's sepulcher at Pasargadae, near Persepolis.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Life only avails, not the having lived.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Now Brutus, when he had fled as far as Philippi, was shut up by us, and became a partaker of the same perdition with Cassius; and now these have received their punishment, we suppose that we may enjoy peace for the time to come, and that Asia may be at rest from war.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And now they have let him out everybody belonging to him is gone away somewhere or dead.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

But though I am a daughter to his blood, I am not to his manners.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Peace Notes, and the replies to them, and the replies to those replies have been probably the wind that raised that wave, or, in other words, the super-coxcomb who rules the German Empire has expressed his "holy wrath" at the reply of our Allied nations to his gracious granting of peace on his own terms.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

But they had a great deal of variety; no two steps went the same way: they seemed to have fallen out with one another, and never to have “made up” again.
— from When I was your age by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

I easily guessed her sentiments, and my pride took the resolution of entertaining the same indifference and neglect towards her.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She must have got a notion that he was far more wonderful than he really was.
— from Denry the Audacious by Arnold Bennett

The American commander at Pittsburg, Col. Gibson, endeavored to get them to come into the American lines, where he would have the power, as he already had the wish, to protect them; he pointed out that where they were they served in some sort as a shield to the wild Indians, whom he had to spare so as not to harm the Moravians.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

“But Mr. Blyth makes such fusses, and works himself into such fidgets about the poor thing being traced and taken away from him (which is all stuff and nonsense), that he would go half distracted if he knew what I said just now to Master Zack.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

No kith or kin had he in the country, and he had mentioned to a neighbour that he was going to sell his ranch and go back to England.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

that in the eyes of his mother and sisters fully atoned for his backslidings and the disgrace he had brought on a name that had ever been associated with brave deeds in the East.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin