Have you anything to say for yourself, why the Court should not give you judgment according to law?
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

When he reached the ferry, the boat was just ready, and the same ferryman who had once transported the young Samana across the river, stood in the boat, Siddhartha recognised him, he had also aged very much.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

“And yet you would spend a thousand sequins for the pleasure of passing a night with me.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent, which verged on loathing, and so I inwardly attributed the same feeling to everyone.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This was the end of the battle, in which the English certainly got the worst; but with their usual tenacity of purpose, being unable to pursue their enemy afloat, they steered for the bay (D), made the junction with Arnold, and thus broke up the plans of the French and Americans, from which so much had been hoped by Washington.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It was above all necessary, then, to secure a very good and large choir; so, besides adding the somewhat feeble Dreissig 'Academy of Singing' to our usual number of members in the theatre chorus, in spite of great difficulties I also enlisted the help of the choir from the Kreuzschule, with its fine boys' voices, and the choir of the Dresden seminary, which had had much practice in church singing.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

If not, what will happen?…” VII Immediately on their return from Petersburg Varvara Petrovna sent her friend abroad to “recruit”; and, indeed, it was necessary for them to part for a time, she felt that.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus, even before its outbreak, the conspiracy contrived to degrade and despoil the Government, so as to secure free course for the projected rebellion.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The Strongylus commutatus often lives in great abundance in the lungs of the hare, and the Strongylus filaria in the lungs of the sheep, occasionally in such great numbers that their presence produces pneumonia.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

That is what we have done, Huzrut, and here is Ahmed to speak for himself."
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

He came over to Clayton’s, and sat in the little study, in the chair he loved, which, though big, was now almost too small for him.
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

The Doctor did not stay long at the Place of Marriage, but privately returns to his own House, where he acquainted some of his Friends of his Enterprise, who highly applauded his Ingenuity; but he enjoined them all to Secrecy for some Time.
— from The Levellers A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons by Anonymous

I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

It was not until late that afternoon that she found her opportunity to question Grace.
— from Grace Harlowe's Problem by Josephine Chase

It was impossible for me to be angry with her, even though, as she told me later, she had breakfasted at six o'clock, and had been waiting at the stile for me since seven.
— from The Kidnapped President by Guy Boothby

Among the specimens fronting the visitor as he enters the room, one of the most interesting, on account of its remarkable dentition, is the Narwhal, or Sea-Unicorn.
— from British Museum (Natural History) General Guide by British Museum (Natural History)

All this was painted carefully from the scene, with as much of the details of the forest as the time permitted, on a canvas twenty-five by thirty inches, on which I worked about two months, till the lake began to freeze and the snow fell.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman