As it is not a magician but a Spanish nobleman who gives her the gala, I am of opinion nothing should be effected by enchantment.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tom and so down; and, being come, found none on board but two or three servants, looking to horses and doggs, there on board, and, seeing no more, I staid not long there, but away and on shore at Greenwich, the night being late and the tide against us; so, having sent before, to Mrs. Clerke’s and there I had a good bed, and well received, the whole people rising to see me, and among the rest young Mrs. Daniel, whom I kissed again and again alone, and so by and by to bed and slept pretty well, 12th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This must be a strange night to you, standing alone here with your counterpart on these street stones?”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Not by speech and not by antennae signs nor contacts, for the drunken and motionless ants were recognized and the friend discriminated from the stranger.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

During the marriage ceremonies of Brāhmans and some non-Brāhman castes, the bride and bridegroom are seated in a swing within the marriage booth, and songs called uyyāla patalu (swing songs) are sung by women to the accompaniment of music.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Monsieur appears, at an upper window: ten thousand voices bray and shriek, "Nous ne voulons pas que le Roi parte."
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This faced the courtyard, and outside it, as usual, there took place the following daily altercation between a serf named Grigory (who purported to act as butler) and the housekeeper, Perfilievna.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The square sail had been hoisted; it filled out slowly and, obeying the long rough oar which Bostock used as a scull, the raft behaved splendidly, leaving the long dark hull of the steamer behind, and steadily nearing the yellow stretch of sand backed by an enormous cocoanut grove.
— from King o' the Beach: A Tropic Tale by George Manville Fenn

The years carried the children out of the perpetual holidays of infancy and into the treadmill of schooling that begins with b, a, ba and sometimes never ends.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

Then his attention was attracted by a slight noise from their room.
— from The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman

Three long weeks had gone by, and still no message came for Kaunitz; and still Bartenstein and Uhlefeld held the reins of power.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

As the number seven is made out by separating Sidon from Tyre to which it properly belonged, it is rightly held to be a symbolic number, as in the book of Revelation and elsewhere, seven being the well-known symbol of completeness.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

One more subject remains to be touched upon, and it may be approached safely now that we have reviewed the several social groups on the border between freeholders and villains.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Therein the wood-wife lightly bore Arthur, and Birdalone followed; and they found the cave dry and roomy within; there was a bed therein of dry heather and bracken, and thereon Habundia laid her burden, and said: Now, my child, there is nought to do but abide till he comes to himself again, which may be some time to-morrow; and be of good cheer, for he will come to his right self, but he will be weak and humble; but I shall have meat and drink ready for him.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris