"Return to Madame Beck, and tell her I can buy fruit when I want it, et quant à ses félicitations, je m'en moque!"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

When between these intervals the process of union happens likewise to be arrested, malformations are the result; and of these the following are examples:--Extrusion of the bladder at the hypogastrium is caused by a congenital hiatus at the lower part of the linea alba, which is in the median line; Epispadias, which is an urethral opening on the dorsum of the penis; and Hypospadias, which is a similar opening on its under surface, are of the same nature--namely, omissions in median union.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

He will relate all this to the king, and you will see the consequences that will ensue." "My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Sometimes he tries to joke and laugh with him, but that will not do; sometimes he endeavours to cheer him with talk about old times, and this at one time may serve to divert the sufferer from his own sad thoughts; at another, it will only plunge him into deeper melancholy than before; and then Hattersley is confounded, and knows not what to say, unless it be a timid suggestion that the clergyman might be sent for.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

I thought the assassin, having discovered the chest, and supposing it to be a treasure, had intended carrying it off, but, perceiving his error, had dug another hole, and deposited it there; but I could find nothing.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I did not even look at him, but after I had seen that a room had been assigned to him, I called out to the landlord that I would be answerable for the abbe’s board and lodging for three days, and not a moment more.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Of the second in command he complained to the minister: "Being at the head, I could not well see what was going on in the rear.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In excuse of such very untheological doctrines it must be allowed that her ideas concerning wickedness in general were very limited indeed, if not altogether childish in their extreme simplicity.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The notion that it indicates an advance in erotic literature may no doubt be traced to the legend that Heliodorus was a bishop, and that he introduced Christian ideas into his romance—a theory which Professor Rohde has scuttled and sent to the bottom of the sea.[330] The preservation of the heroine's virginity amid incredible perils and temptations is one of the tricks of the Greek novelists, the real object of which is made most apparent in Daphnis and Chloe .
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

There was talk on the part of Margaret Henan of going to law at the time, but in the end she carried the child to Belfast and there had it christened Samuel.
— from The Strength of the Strong by Jack London

Thus I praise their death and envy (them), and they are the ones of all men who I believe are the happiest in coming into the world, who, though in possession of mortal bodies, have left an immortal memory for their valor.
— from The Orations of Lysias by Lysias

He lectured the members of the committee as if they had been school boys, telling them that the regular British gun was so bad that he would be ashamed to have it come from his shop.
— from The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest by Holland Thompson

But after three hours I could bear such scenes of outrage no longer, and put an end to them.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

On this account he insisted that the king should leave the Spanish territory, and Charles, having informed the governor of his intention to visit Breda, left Brussels about two hours, if Clarendon be correct, before an order was issued for his detention.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

The king wished them to say to her majesty that he would no longer endure her disobedience in reference to the marriage of Wilhelmina; that, in case this disobedience continued, there should be an entire separation between him and his wife—a divorce—and that she and her daughter should both be banished to the château of Oranienburg, about twenty miles from Berlin, and there held in close imprisonment.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

In the recent war we have seen how the sense of national unity has been able to hold in check all other motives.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge