We have been informed that at the cost of many sleepless nights and much toil he has succeeded, and that he means to publish them in hopes of Don Quixote’s third sally.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And in the evenings he wrote charms on parchment—elaborate pentagrams crowned with the names of devils—Murra, and Awan the Companion of Kings—all fantastically written in the corners.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And the aged sire himself sat in the midst, near the hearth, telling of the end of their voyage and the completion of their journey: (ll. 311-315) "Listen then.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

It is strenuously turning out money at the cost of happiness.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

It was at the close of this Albany convention that Miss Anthony decided to abandon the Bloomer costume.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Many a time, hobbling home with her fish bag she heard them, waiting at the corner, or leaning over the area railings, say among themselves, “She's had a hard life, has Ma Parker.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

At the conclusion of these thoughts, he took up the Mirror of Voluptuousness, and cast his eyes on the obverse side; but upon perceiving nought else than a skeleton standing in it, Chia Jui sustained such a fright that he lost no time in covering it with his hands and in abusing the Taoist.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“Yes, it's all bloody,” observed Mitya, looking at the cuff of his shirt.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Well, Mabel is deeply attached to her; so is Jane, and the children of course.
— from A Pessimist in Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird

Of him it is written that he even denied himself the sensible consolation of his mother's countenance, and his detachment from all the consolations of sense were such that we can hardly realise.
— from The Priestly Vocation A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy by Bernard Ward

Leila, ever full of fancy and mysticism wondered imaginatively if, somewhere in a world of light beyond the stars, Brooke Hamilton lived and watched with approval the carrying on of his beloved work.
— from Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate by Josephine Chase

He saw that a glittering wave of bayonets was smiting and dispersing the gentry, and he swam to meet that wave; he bent down and dived through the dense grass, across the centre of the yard, until he paused in ambush where the nettles were growing; with gestures he summoned Buzzard. Buzzard, who was on guard at the mansion, was standing with his blunderbuss by the threshold, for in that mansion dwelt his dear Zosia, whom he loved eternally (though she had scorned his courtship), and in whose defence he was glad to perish.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I describe them to B., and he says they are the steeples of Cologne Cathedral; and we all begin to yawn and stretch, and to collect our bags and coats and umbrellas.
— from Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

" That is, while the Involuntary Process was accomplished by Principles as Principles, the Upward Movement was begun by a tendency toward "splitting up," and the creation of "individual forms," and the effort to perfect them and build upon them higher and still higher succeeding forms, until a stage was reached in which the Temple of the Spirit was worthy of being occupied by Man, the self-conscious expression of the Spirit.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson

Next in importance to these memorials are the hollow cylinders, or, more strictly speaking, hexagonal or octagonal prisms, made in extremely fine and thin terra cotta, which the Assyrian kings used to deposit at the corners of temples, inscribed with an account of their chief acts and with numerous religious invocations.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

On the contrary, a total change of direction may become necessary.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The two prefects only disagreed about the choice of the tortures.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler