I need only tell you that she sent for me a month ago, gave me three thousand roubles to send off to her sister and another relation in Moscow (as though she couldn't have sent it off herself!)
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was born in London, the son of a rich iron merchant, at the time when the merchants of England were creating a new and higher kind of princes.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The steak soon began to look brown, and to crackle in the pan; and Catherine stood by with a fork and turned it: then she said to herself, ‘The steak is almost ready, I may as well go to the cellar for the ale.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

He thought too of the possibility (which he feared most of all) that Napoleon might fight him with his own weapon and remain in Moscow awaiting him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Amiens in insurrection—Rheims and Rouen in motion, and marching on Paris—General Canrobert resisting the coup d'état —General Castellane hesitating—the Minister of the United States demanding his passports.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

" Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may .
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Doubtless it would afford food for curiosity; for, being out of the path of armies in the days of conquest and revolution, it may, and I believe does, retain much worthy of research.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

[pg 17] the ground they had left, and if I did not get a big bag of game, at any rate I made a good collection of drawings and measurements of the plans of the forts and emplacements which they had traced out on the ground.
— from My Adventures as a Spy by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

I delivered a plane at a ranch in Mexico a few years ago for Joe and Alicia Brooks.
— from Test Pilot by James Collins

A reprint is mentioned as late as 1881.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

One year (482) he is making a raid into Macedonia and Thessaly and plundering Larissa.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

So, at any rate, I must always regard them.
— from In Answer to Prayer by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

If," he added, "you see anything remarkable in my appearance, it is probably because— 'This very morn I've felt the sweet surprise Of unexpected lips on sealed eyes;'" by which he poetically intimated the pleasing ceremony which had awaked him to the duties of the day.
— from Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

Female education, in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic; in some few and rare instances, music and dancing."
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

On all occasions (excepting only nights, when he slept tranquilly on a rug in my aunt’s room) he felt it his duty to keep watch and ward over the premises.
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various