Nevertheless, they are now fully convinced, that she hath more than sufficiently atoned for her indiscretion, by the barbarity of her husband, who hath not only secluded her from all communication with her friends and acquaintance, but even confined her to the west tower of your father's house, where she is said to be kept close prisoner, and subjected to all sorts of inconvenience and mortification.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But when Lucius Domitius became a candidate for the consulship, and openly threatened that, upon his being elected consul, he would effect that which he could not accomplish when he was praetor, and divest him of the command of the armies, he sent for Crassus and Pompey to Lucca, a city in his province, and pressed them, for the purpose of disappointing Domitius, to sue again for the consulship, and to continue him in his command for five years longer; with both which requisitions they complied.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He stepped out, his bearing extremely composed; his massive head, with its drooping moustache and wings of white hair, very upright, under an excessively large top hat; his glance firm, a little angry.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

He was a greater Prince than any there, though there was a reigning Duke and a Royal Highness, with their princesses, and near his Lordship was seated the beautiful Countess of Belladonna, nee de Glandier, whose husband (the Count Paolo della Belladonna), so well known for his brilliant entomological collections, had been long absent on a mission to the Emperor of Morocco.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Anthony Parsons, a priest, together with two others, were sent to Windsor, to be examined concerning heresy; and several articles were tendered to them to subscribe, which they refused.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

As trembling is sometimes caused by rage, long before exhaustion can have set in, and as it sometimes accompanies great joy, it would appear that any strong excitement of the nervous system interrupts the steady flow of nerve-force to the muscles.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

For a finite process, whether of accretion or decrease, must, if we presuppose infinite time, be eventually completed, however infinitesimal its progressive stages may be.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black man, and tried to rob the devil.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He tells the that the fellow grew very proud of late, the King and every body else crying him up so high, and that above Betterton, he being a more ayery man, as he is indeed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Eusebius had treated him very badly when he found he could not get Nina and her money, and spoke against the poor banker everywhere, calling him, with tender pastoral regret, a "worldly Egyptian," a "Dives," a "whitened sepulchre," and all the rest of it.
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Its twenty-two cantons are united by a Constitution, under one President and one flag, but each canton has its own cantonal colours.
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

She watched Christos out of the gate with all the complete indifference her great black eyes could hold, and then set off down to the ship-yard where a new brig was to be launched that day.
— from The Capsina: An Historical Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

"This letter purports to be from Sylvia Bailey," exclaimed Chester hoarsely, "but of course it is nothing of the sort!
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The manitou is an object of peculiar veneration; and the fixing upon this guardian power is not only the most important event in the history of a youth, but even constitutes his initiation into active life.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

It was a perfect picture in its way of the indolent luxury of the South,—the rich and perfumed flowers, half-closing to the night air, but sighing forth a perfumed buonas noches as they betook themselves to rest; the slender shadows of the tall shrubs, stretching motionless across the walks; the very attitude of the figure himself was in keeping as supported by easy chairs he lounged at full length, raising his head ever and anon as if to watch the wreath of eddying smoke as it rose upwards from his cigar and melted away in the distance.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Dared we venture for thee an encouraging word, it would be "Every cloud has a silver lining."
— from Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton by Rebecca Agatha Armour

From the first hour I was able to hear and comprehend him, he poisoned my heart by every channel he could approach.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

"We send you a shipment, one widow and eleven maids, for wives of the people of Virginia: there hath been especial care had in the choice of them, for there hath not one of them been received but upon good commendations.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell