I had committed a theft; I had violated a church; I had violated a shrine; violated and stolen holy relics, and for that she adored me, thought me perfect, tender, divine.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I met her six months ago and she asked me to come and live with her, as she has rented a flat that is twice too large.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And that same night that the steven was set betwixt Segwarides' wife and Sir Tristram, King Mark armed him, and made him ready, and took two knights of his counsel with him; and so he rode afore for to abide by the way for to wait upon Sir Tristram.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"'Like the painting of a sorrow,'" he repeated, "'a face without a heart.'
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He longed to send for the children; to have them there beside him, their supple bodies against his knees; to hear Jolly's: “Hallo, Gran!” and see his rush; and feel Holly's soft little hand stealing up against his cheek.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

While the horse, by turning a rebel to nature, and becoming a slave to man, undergoes the worst of tyranny: he is sometimes spurred on to battle so long till he draw his guts after him for trapping, and at last falls down, and bites the ground instead of grass; not to mention the penalty of his jaws being curbed, his tail docked, his back wrung, his sides spur-galled, his close imprisonment in a stable, his rapshin and fetters when he runs a grass, and a great many other plagues, which he might have avoided, if he had kept to that first station of freedom which nature placed him in.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

And so he remained about foure yeeres, euen vntill the death of the King.
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

The disobedient daughters, whose admirers got them "inscribed" on the books of the Opera so as to free them from parental control, would, under another system, have run away from home.
— from History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

On a sudden he rushed at Fernando like a maniac, and seized him by the arm.
— from Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson

Taungbaw is on a small hill rising abruptly from the plain, detached and about 400 yards distant from the main ridge, and about the same distance from a village called Zédi, which was occupied by friendlies, Burmese and Shan peasants, from the plain.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

And so he runs, And from a farmer’s house by telephone Sends word to Coroner Merival.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

However, it must be met sooner or later; it was no good putting off the evil day; and so he read as follows:— “Mid.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

After she had returned, and fallen to low-voiced gossip through the window with Pauline, Beryl had been sent back with a number of scribbled objections for Lydman to answer.
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

When he was about seventeen, he ran away from home and went to sea.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

(He pulls her off chair and swings her R.) ANGELA: (Falling on couch.)
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page