For twenty-five years he has been masquerading in false clothes and has now retired absolutely unknown to any living soul; and yet see him!
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

People were lined along bath banks, men in frock coats, others in duck suits, others in blouses, women, children and even young girls of marriageable age; all were fishing.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

At night, and between meals, I found considerable time for study and reading; and in this direction I improved myself very much during the summer.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Although I had not a penny in my pocket and had two rivers to cross over, I congratulated myself on having got rid of a man of his character, for by myself I felt confident of being able to cross the bounds of the Republic.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thus the primary elements of the calculations which have been made in France cannot be obtained in the Union; the relative wealth of the two countries is unknown; the property of the former is not accurately determined, and no means exist of computing that of the latter.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Bognor must, I fear, come under this heading.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

The design must be made in five colours, green (leaves of Cassia auriculata ), white (rice flour), red (turmeric and lime), yellow (turmeric), and black (burnt rice-husk).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It was the very Greek-like belief of MacDowell that nothing is more sublimely awful than "to heighten the darkness of tragedy by making it follow closely on the heels of triumph."
— from Unicorns by James Huneker

In Europe it is preyed upon by minute ichneumon flies (Chalcids).
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

But by the seventh their mistakes had been repaired, and Blake was once more on the run, with both marshals in full cry behind him.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

Back must I fall, confess "Ever the weakness I fled"?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

You knew I was betrothed, mademoiselle?" I felt confused, and was endeavouring to find an answer to this when he continued: "Do not trouble to explain, for I know how YOU knew.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

The use of iron and lead balls, the superiority of which over balls of stone had doubtless been manifested in former centuries in connection with the projection of Greek fire, was practised by the Florentines soon after the invention of guns themselves.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson