For my own part, I thought myself doubly interested to distinguish my valour, not only on account of my own glory, but likewise on the supposition, that, as I was acting under the eye of Gonzales, my conduct would be narrowly observed.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Thus d’Artagnan entered Paris on foot, carrying his little packet under his arm, and walked about till he found an apartment to be let on terms suited to the scantiness of his means.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

herefore the poet gives few lines to the combat, but lingers over the son's joy at finding his father, and the father's quenchless sorrow at the death of his son.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Suppose this be the bright yellow Light transmitted perpendicularly from the reflecting convex side of the Glass through the concave side to the white Spot in the center of the Rings of Colours on the Chart: And by a Rule in the 7th and 19th Observations in the first Part of this Book, and by the 15th and 20th Propositions of the third Part of this Book, if the Rays be made oblique to the Glass, the thickness of the Glass requisite to transmit the same bright Light of the same Ring in any obliquity, is to this thickness of 1/4 of an Inch, as the Secant of a certain Angle to the Radius, the Sine of which Angle is the first of an hundred and six arithmetical Means between the Sines of Incidence and Refraction, counted from the Sine of Incidence when the Refraction is made out of any plated Body into any Medium encompassing it; that is, in this case, out of Glass into Air.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

But it was not necessary that the first-born should succeed their fathers in the kingdom, but those would succeed who were recommended by the possession of some virtue useful to the earthly city, or who were chosen by lot, or the son who was best liked by his father would succeed by a kind of hereditary right to the throne.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Paul (VI. lxxxviii) says: ‘Stones and other missiles from slings may be removed by levers or the scoop of an ear probe adapted for wounds’ (κυαθίσκου τραυματικῆς μηλωτίδος).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

He crept on tiptoe to the door, stealthily opened it and began listening on the staircase.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The chief among them were: Jamineau's perquisite office which had the monopoly of selling newspapers to the "Clerks of the Roads," the Secretary's position as agent for the packets, the Controller of the Bye and Cross Posts, the Inspector of Dead Letters in the Bye Letter Office, the Collector in the Bye Letter Office, the Secretary of the Foreign Office, and the Controller of the Inland Office.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

"But you'll have to get used to bad language on the stage."
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

Her heart was heavy, but her eyes were undimmed, and her grave, composed face betokened little of the sorrow which oppressed her.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

"Doris, this time to-morrow evening we shall be leaning over the steamboat side, watching the light in the water, and the track of the huge wheels; then you will be my wife."
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

53 PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A LOOKING-GLASS 328 PART II TOWER IN WHICH BALZAC PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME AT COLLEGE 164 HE NOW SAW WITH A TERRIFIED SHUDDER THAT THERE WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAIRS, AND PERCEIVED CORNÉLIUS, IN HIS OLD DALMATIC, CARRYING HIS LAMP 324 ABOUT CATHERINE DE' MEDICI AND GAMBARA
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

As yet I have nowhere seen recorded the fact that in July, 1846, the ship Brooklyn landed on the shore of San Francisco bay two hundred and fifty passengers, among whom were upwards of seventy females; it being the first emigration to this place via Cape Horn.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

We learn from Butler ( Lives of the Saints ) that Marcella, one of the many matrons under St. Jerome’s instruction in Rome, made great progress in the critical learning of the Holy Scriptures, and learned in a short time many things which had cost him abundance of labor (vol. ix.).
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

This leaves the letters for the bottom lines of the square as follows: [ 81 ] .
— from Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers by Parker Hitt

Direct connection now being established with a microphone secreted in the base of the brass lamp on the study table, three floors below, and the perforated side of the microphone detector serving as an earpiece, one could hear every word uttered by the conspirators.
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

and his successors, the Louvre has been left unfinished: but the millions which have been lavished on the sands of Versailles, and the morass of Marli, could not be supplied by the legal allowance of a British king.
— from Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon