At dusk we weighed anchor, and reached Hiôgo at nine o'clock [pg 368] the next morning, where we found H.M.S. "Ocean" and "Zebra" already in harbour.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

—The snow came to nothing yesterday, so I did go to Deane, and returned home at nine o'clock at night in the little carriage, and without being very cold.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

He could no longer say that he would always reject her, and not to say that was in spirit to accept her now.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Mr. Winkle looked somewhat stern at this interruption, and Mr. Pickwick angrily requested his attendant not to jest with one of the best feelings of our nature; to which Sam replied, ‘That he wouldn’t, if he was aware on it; but there were so many on ‘em, that he hardly know’d which was the best ones
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Not that the young fellow committed this outrage on Socrates with impunity, for as all reviled him and nicknamed him the kicker, he hung himself.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[8] Akbar received him at Nagor, on his route to Ajmer, on which occasion the Raos of Mandor were made Rajas; and as the heir of Marwar was of uncommon bulk, the title by which he was afterwards known in Rajasthan was Mota Raja, [9] and henceforth the descendants of the kings of Kanauj had the ‘right hand’ of the emperor of the Moguls.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The fascination of a charming, virtuous, highly educated woman might make his way easier, might do wonders in attracting people to him, throwing an aureole round him, and now everything was in ruins!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He does not wish any one to tell him the truth; he avoids telling it to others, and all these dispositions, so removed from justice and reason, have a natural root in his heart.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

If it were that thou hadst at one time both a stepmother, and a natural mother living, thou wouldst honour and respect her also; nevertheless to thine own natural mother would thy refuge, and recourse be continually.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

After returning home, Abilyx next went with a band of chosen friends to Bostar; and, after receiving the boys, left the camp at night, as though he wished not to be seen by the Roman camp as he passed it, and came at the appointed time to the place arranged, and there handed over all the boys to the Roman officers.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I am reproducing herewith a number of programmes describing the effect of the trick and proving that it was no novelty when Robert-Houdin “invented” it.
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

He says:—'As my book was to be a real history , and not a novel , it was necessary to suppress all erroneous particulars, however entertaining.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

"The flock no longer recognize the brow of their pastor and regard him as nothing but an opulent man, enjoying himself in the capital and giving himself very little trouble about it.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

He introduced large quantities of various acids into the stomach of his animals without observing ulceration as a result; he also neutralized the blood by the injection of weakened acids into the bloodvessels, but no ulceration followed.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1886 by Various

The state of religion amongst the Greeks and Romans had a natural tendency to induce this disposition.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

Finally, she had the honor of refusing the Emperor’s advances, for Napoleon made her a present of a diamond necklace, and always remembered her, asking now and again, “And is the beautiful Madame Hulot still a model of virtue?” in the tone of a man who might have taken his revenge on one who should have triumphed where he had failed.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Like enough you had a very fearsome dream, after listening to a lot about those resurrection-men, and running home at night with the liquor in your head."
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore