“I mean that the wife of the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her husband and her child.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Only once, after the affair of the Berëzina, did he get angry and write to Bennigsen (who reported separately to the Emperor) the following letter: “On account of your spells of ill health, will your excellency please be so good as to set off for Kalúga on receipt of this, and there await further commands and appointments from His Imperial Majesty.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Asal ,, Sheitan deripada brahi Adam, tatkala belum bertemu dengan Hawa.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She seemed to be destroying him.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

After being discharged he resided at York, and kept the “Light Horseman” Inn, Fulford Road.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

THE DOCTOR I T was still in the drawing-room, so still that a house-fly that had flown in from outside could be distinctly heard brushing against the ceiling.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But the other jackdaws did not recognise him in his white dress, and would not let him feed with them, but drove him away: and so he became a homeless wanderer for his pains.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

He felt sorry for him, but disliked his uncouthness and stupidity.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

In the Oeil-de-Boeuf, and her Majesty's private Apartments, an eloquent Controller, with his "Madame, if it is but difficult," had been persuasive: but, alas, the cause is now carried elsewhither.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

No transoceanic navigational undertaking has been conducted with more ability, no business dealings have been crowned with greater success.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Overtaken by despair, he fled from his country, and joined a gang of smugglers, whose ravages were dreaded through every town and village on the coast.
— from The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or, Intellectual Mirror by M. (Arnaud) Berquin

His brightest dream had come true, but— The first weeks in London, however, were so full of new sensations and agreeable distractions, that he had scarcely been a fortnight away from Laysford when it looked like a year.
— from The Call of the Town: A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The universal Yankee freights his schooner at Bangor, at New Bedford, and at Boston, with bricks, timber, frame-houses, and other "notions," and by and by drops his anchor in the smooth Pacific, in the Bay of St. Francis.
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

The guards to watch the stock having been assigned, the men came down to the realities of camp life: no more china plates set by dainty hands on white linen tablecloths; no more delicate tidbits such as a housewife in a comfortable home so often serves; no easy chairs in which to rest in comfort, and no cleanly beds in which to pass the night,—yet no one was disappointed, and good spirits prevailed.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

SENTRY DUTY IVORY BOYNTON drove home from the woods that same afternoon by way of the bridge, in order to buy some provisions at the brick store.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The little priest shook his head, muttered to himself, and then, bending down, he tapped his own leg, and looking questioningly in his would-be guide’s face, he began to limp.
— from !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by George Manville Fenn

If policy had required that Nehemiah should be despatched, his was the hand to do the deed, and his the stomach to support his conscience afterward.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

This intelligence determined him to return home at once, and, by declaring himself, to dissipate the illusion and put an end to the comedy which was being played at his expense.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

He grew weary, his head was aching, and there was a ringing in his ears; a ringing that seemed as if ten thousand bells were jangling out their peals, and he could barely distinguish his own pounding.
— from Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor Appleton

"Nothing has been stolen from the boat," declared Hazel, "so it looks as though our midnight prowler vanished when he heard Tommy's first scream."
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover by Janet Aldridge