At midnight, under a bright moon, I declared my devotion with an ardor that did not seem to displease her.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

In my opinion, She were better progress to the baths at Lucca, Or go visit the Spa In Germany; for, if you will believe me, I do not like this jesting with religion, This feigned pilgrimage.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

'Twere not so hard for me to gain This broad land girdled by the main, But even Indra's royal might Should ne'er be mine in duty's spite.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

These must not be trusted, but the search must be made in districts and soils, yet not in depressions, where those signs are found growing not from seed, but springing up naturally of themselves.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

This River recves its name from a nation which dwells at this time on its banks & 2 villages one about 20 Leagues & the other 40 Leagues up, those Indians are not verry noumerous at this time, reduced by war with their neighbours, &c. they formerly liveid on the South banks of the Missouries 24 Leagues above this river in a open & butifull plain and were verry noumerous at the time the french first Settled the Illinois, I am told they are a fierce & warlike people, being badly Supplied with fire arms, become easily conquered by the Aiauway & Saukees who are better furnished with those materials of war, This nation is now out in the plains hunting the Buffalow our hunters Killed Several Deer and Saw Buffalow, men impd Dressing Skins & makeing themselves Comfortable, the high lands Coms to the river Kanses on the upper Side at about a mile, full in view, and a butifull place for a fort, good landing place, the waters of the Kansas is verry disigreeably tasted to me.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But placed as they were before me, in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their evanescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognised them instantaneously.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

I, too, on my side, will walk from the front entrance, so that we cannot miss her; I'm afraid of missing her by myself; I don't want to miss her.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think of that day of breezy March, I do not know why.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

I sit motionless thinking of nothing, feeling no desires; if a book lies before me I draw it mechanically towards me and read without interest.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“If you knew what a conflict goes on in the business mind, when the business mind is divided between good-natured impulse and business appearances, you would be amused, Mr. Darnay.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

One of the printed queries before me is, "Do they (the Indians) believe in ghosts?"
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

She saw that it was a toad, and she knew that it would not bite him; but motherly instinct demanded that [Pg 48] she must warn him.
— from A Yankee from the West: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

A little river flows into the Poldhu cove, running down from the charming wooded estate of Bochym, mentioned in Domesday as Buchent.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

I'm right down sorry if I makes you feel uncomfortable, dearie; but, bless me, I don't know how it is, but, when a thing sticks in my mind, I'm as bound to hawk it up as though it were a bone in my throat."
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He seemed to be minutes in doing it.
— from Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green

But, Madam, I design (if you approve it)
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

Her husband has been mentioned in dispatches.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

I got past the dangerous place, the malo sitio , as they say in Spain, without accident, and, although it was behind me, I decided that I must still keep my steed to his gallop.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas