You may assure her that the abbess will be friendly, will come and see her every now and then, will give her proper books—in a word, that she will be well looked after.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For these reasons, being seized with as great a thirst to die himself as to kill others, and wishing the massacre on both sides to be equal, he furnished both sides with equal resources; but let Ring have a somewhat stronger force, preferring he should conquer and survive him. ENDNOTES: (1)
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

She could certainly not do anything without my consent, and she had evidently considered the affair too delicate to venture upon proposing the party point-blank to me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

How could one, with a thirst for truth, and clear conviction, accept such historical evidence?
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“Ah, Egremont! come and sit here,” exclaimed more than one banqueter.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

She wrote me a note, in which she said I was her only friend, and that the only mark of friendship she wanted was that I should come and see her every day, if it were but for a moment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“You see what the Japanese monkeys are like,” Von Koren began, rolling himself up in his cloak and shutting his eyes.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nec praeter rationem mirum videri debet, si quis rem considerare velit, omnes eos vel saltem maximam partem, qui in hoc terrarum orbe res praestantiores aggressi sunt, atque inter caeteros aevi sui heroas excelluerunt, aut obscuro, aut abjecto loco editos, et prognatos fuisse abjectis parentibus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Thus a vicious circle is established, the belief in his incapacity causing him to act in such a way as to intensify the asthenic state, and the resultant increased feeling of debility operating, in its turn, to confirm and strengthen his erroneous belief.
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

We have, in our preceding chapters, already shown how entirely we differ from both of them.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

The writer entreated him to come and see her exactly at three o'clock; she was in very grave trouble, had the most urgent need of him.
— from The Crown of Life by George Gissing

The Countess and Susanna have exchanged dresses, and now come into the garden.
— from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

M. Barbour , D. D., Ct. Rev. W. L. Gage , Ct. A. S. Hatch , Esq., N. Y. Rev. J. H. Fairchild , D. D., Ohio Rev. H. A. Stimson , Minn. Rev. J. W. Strong , D. D., Minn. Rev. George Thacher , LL.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879 by Various

Jasper is excessively obstinate, and though he did not make a fuss, he got quite a habit of going over to Rose Cottage and spending his evenings there singing and playing.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

I THE PEPPERELLS AND THE CAPTAIN One bright warm noonday in May of the year 1638, Goodwife Pepperell opened the door of her little log cabin, and, screening her eyes from the sun with a toilworn hand, looked about in every direction, as if searching for some one.
— from The Puritan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Let the shedding of blood be theirs----" "It has been for too long," the Cévenole answered sternly, his eyes glittering.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

Mona did not feel obliged to be present at our conversations after she had explained her position to us, but I saw her many times every day.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

But in spite of their defenceless condition, they were held by the vigilance and courage of their defenders, and the enemy were unable to set foot in them until after the Chinese and Siamese had experienced several defeats.
— from History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770 by F. H. (François Henri) Turpin