He left Brunswick in 1809, but after a flying visit to Paris, he was again given official employment in Germany.
— from On Love by Stendhal

My bones are aching for the land.”
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Both ate as fast as they could, and met at the middle of the trough.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

But when Godfrey was lifting his eyes from one of those long glances, they encountered an object as startling to him at that moment as if it had been an apparition from the dead.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

An estate the royal father could not endow him with, for he had spent all his money, mortgaged all his resources, and was obliged to run in debt himself for the jewels of the rest of his mistresses; but he did his best for the young peer, as became an affectionate father or a fond lover.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“If you’ll give me your word that this will not wound Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch’s delicacy in regard to his feeling for me, from whom he ne-e-ver conceals anything … and if you are convinced also that your doing this will be agreeable to him …” “Certainly it will be agreeable, and for that reason I consider it a particularly agreeable duty.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As for the seditious, they were in too great distress already to afford their assistance [towards quenching the fire]; they were every where slain, and every where beaten; and as for a great part of the people, they were weak and without arms, and had their throats cut wherever they were caught.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

By associating a friend and a fellow-soldier to the labors of government, Diocletian, in a time of public danger, provided for the defence both of the East and of the West.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But this must have been an afterthought, for the name is derived from Cydon, in Crete, of which island the quince is a native.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

—thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting!'
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

A further martial touch was given by the gray coats of the old men, by the big Camp badges and bronze crosses proudly displayed by all, and finally by Sergeant Jimmy Bagby, who, true to a habit of forty years' standing, was wearing the rent and faded jacket that he brought home from the war, and carrying on his shoulder the ancient rusted musket that had served him from Sumter to the fall of Richmond.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

I was very much touched by the sympathy which, on my way, I received from Europeans, as in Tabris, from my distinguished Swiss friends, Messrs. Hanhart & Company, and Mr. Abbot, the English Vice-consul; in Trebisond, from the Italian Consul Mr. Bosio, and also from my learned friend, Dr. O. Blau, and particularly from Herr Dragorich, the former the Prussian, the latter the Austrian Consul.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

In the mean time I do mutter in secret & to you, that to quit the house of Commons, his natural strength; to sap his own popularity & grandeur (which no one but himself could have done) by assuming a foolish title; & to hope that he could win by it and attach to him a Court, that hate him, & will dismiss him, as soon as ever they dare, was the weakest thing, that ever was done by so great a Man.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

But the occupy 274 ing force was probably even under Augustus himself diminished about a third, and then under Domitian by about a further third.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

" As the announcement had provoked strong protests, Governor von Bissing announced a few days later that, if this contribution was paid, no further extraordinary taxes would be required and the requisitions would henceforth be paid for in money.
— from Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium by Emile Cammaerts

When he was ready he rode over to the bungalow, leading the gentlest horse packed with bedding roll, "war bag," and a few odds and ends that Johnny wanted to take along.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

Given reparation in Europe, is Germany to be allowed a fair share in the control and trade of a pooled and neutralized Central Africa?
— from In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The rebels then laid down their arms and surrendered their forts and ammunition, and, according to other provisions of the treaty, Aguinaldo received 400,000 pesetas, which were deposited in the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank at Hong-Kong; not for his own personal use, but as a fund, the interest of which, if [ 294 ] the Spaniards carried out their part of the agreement, was to be devoted to the education of native youth in England.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

It is a wholly self-governing body and, aside from making up the inevitable deficits that accrue, the store has no paternalistic or direct attitude whatsoever toward it.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford