Loving him with the tenderest affection, and having long been accustomed to consider him as the friend and companion of all her future days, she had no ideas of happiness, that were not connected with him.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

334 B: 'And after them she bare a third child, Helen, a marvel to men.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

He said his say without my being able to contradict him, and his representations were doubtless not in my favour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He overheard one of them say to the others: ‘I have news to report to you; I have cast an evil spell upon the daughter of the King, and no mortal will ever be able to cure her, and yet in order to cure her nothing more would be needed than a drop of water from this fountain.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Therefore, if the shop existed and if this object were really in the window, it would prove that he had been able to concentrate his attention on this article at a moment when, as a general rule, his absence of mind would have been too great to admit of any such concentration; in fact, very shortly after he had left the railway station in such a state of agitation.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One day, being invited to dinner with Count Picon, Governor of Savoy, who was very religious, he arrived before it was ready, and found his excellency busy with his devotions, who proposed to him the same employment; not knowing how to refuse, he knelt down with a frightful grimace, but had hardly recited two Ave-Marias, when, not being able to contain himself any longer, he rose hastily, snatched his hat and cane, and without speaking a word, was making toward the door; Count Picon ran after him, crying, “Monsieur Grossi!
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She was all this that and the other, till I disliked her more and more at every word, and inquired how it was that the straighteners had not been able to cure her as they had cured Mr. Nosnibor.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

We get up as good papers now in the P. R. E. T. T. Y. B. L. U. E. B. A. T. C. H. as any to be found even in Blackwood.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Let the lucky man take the lot and trade with it a bit, and then come home and marry her.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

After enduring the severance of love, nothing that her husband could do would be able to cause her any further pain.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

I said to the "beadle," as they call him: "Aren't you going to have any heat in this building?"
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

It was too tedious to see it out, but our lama informed us next morning that the incantation had been successful (of course)—that they had discovered who the thief was, but as to catching him and recovering the property, that seemed as far off as ever.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

The dacent people where she was, may the Lord reward 'em, though they found little use in her, kep her, hoping I would be able to come home an' keep her myself, an' so I was.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

He massed troops on the line between Havana and Batabano, and took command himself at the centre, hoping to draw Maceo into a general engagement.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

And Mark would never be able to come home again!
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

No eleven this season had been able to check his advances!
— from Over the Line by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

The others were looking at him critically; he was so far recovered that they did not seem to think there was any imperative need for haste in the matter of carrying him to a bed; although they criticised him as if he were dead.
— from The Love That Prevailed by Frank Frankfort Moore