And when the multitude ran together and raised an outcry, Tanaquil, leaning out of an upper story, said: "Be not afraid.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

“You don’t at all understand,” she said.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Another Senator said, “Let the investigation go on and let it make an example of this man Noble; let it teach him and men like him that they could not attack the reputation of a United States Senator with impunity.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The small collection of Books was arranged upon several shelves in order.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

He felt weak, very weak; but he had no real pain, although he noticed an uncomfortable smarting sensation in several parts of his body.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"But, where all things fade, how miserable to be the one that could not fade!" "This dark old St. Peter has a fierce and ugly scowl, saint though he be," continued Walter; "he troubles me.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As soon as she was well off from the wind, we filled away the head yards, braced all up sharp, set the foresail and trysail, and left our anchorage well astern, giving the point a good berth.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Why, mates, was the old fellow making ready to shoot at us?” “Stuff!” said Martin, recovering his stolid composure; “I was but trying my new string.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Readers of that preceding volume will recall how Dave Darrin and Dan Dalzell entered the United States Naval Academy, one appointed by a Congressman and the other by a United States Senator.
— from Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

He held office almost continuously from 1775 until his death in 1810, serving eight years in the army, one in the State Senate, six in Congress, four as judge of the United States District Court, and four as a United States senator, closing his honourable career as president pro tem. of that body.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

The Colombia (or Arraganta), a Venezuelan privateer, fitted in the United States and manned by Americans, captures slaves from a Spanish slaver, the Antelope, and from other slavers; is wrecked, and transfers crew and slaves to Antelope; the latter, under the name of the General Ramirez, is captured with 280 Page 308 slaves by a United States ship.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

In accord with this suggestion, he submitted the "safety fund" project, subsequently enacted into law, providing that all banks should contribute to a fund, administered under state supervision, to secure dishonoured banknotes.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

She had unlimited willing obedience, and unlimited social supremacy.
— from Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

'It's my only chance of seeing him; he's going away tomorrow,' and she was living so intensely in her own imagination that she neither saw nor heeded anybody until she suddenly heard somebody calling after her, 'Kate
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

[Pg 213] Action and Uses : Superfluous strychnine salt.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner