[Cousin Pons.] CAPRAJA, a noble Venetian, a recognized dilettante, living only by and through music.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I thought over Leah and her designs, feeling certain that she would pay me another nocturnal visit and renew the assault in force.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Not only in cases of sickness, but even when a member of the family went to a neighbouring village, and returned safely, a few coins were put into the undi.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Whenever she could steal a minute of time, away from her father's glum eyes and nagging voice and ready fist, she would seek out Lad.
— from Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune

So conceived, and at the eleventh hour saddled with an amendment directing the building of a costly feeder which the engineers had declared needless, the travesty of all the governor's good intentions passed both Houses by a narrow vote, and reached Shelby himself.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

And Brother Ambrosius, not venturing a reply, slunk out.
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

However, there are no very ancient remains there.
— from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various

1. & 2 for an account of these events, which are not very accurately related by Monstrelet.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

They are all now valuable as records of individual varieties that have positively so existed.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

It is thus entitled: Athenæ Normannorum veteres ac recentes, seu syllabus Auctorum qui oriundi è Normannia, &c.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin