Amidst the strange scene, with a chilly wind blowing in my face and midnight clouds dropping rain above my head; with two rude rowers for companions, whose insane oaths still tortured my ear, I asked myself if I was wretched or terrified.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Poi disse: <che di retro a me vegne: li margini fan via, che non son arsi, e sopra loro ogne vapor si spegne>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Boehmer the jeweller immediately named the Cardinal de Rohan and Madame de la Motte as the persons with whom he had negotiated, and they were both arrested and thrown into the Bastille.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Counsel were then heard on behalf of the Cardinal de Rohan and Madame de la Motte.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Suave, competent Defoe, ranting at me like a wounded Gogarty!
— from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

These law books have been chiefly digests, revisals and manuals of practice.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

Mexico has been and must continue to be too feeble to restrain them from committing depredations, robberies, and murders, not only upon the inhabitants of New Mexico itself, but upon those of the other northern States of Mexico.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

In Caleb Valentine, Henry V., Madame Dubarry, Catherine II., Leontine,, Un duel sous le cardinal de Richelieu, and many other plays, her grace, beauty and distinction of manner made her the idol of Paris, and her circle of admirers was widened by long tours of the provinces and abroad.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

We had followed for some distance, circumstances permitting Hop o' my Thumb to keep in the wake of his master, when the colonel, drawing rein, allowed me—I ought to say us , for the old horse had quite as much voice in the matter as I had—to come up with him.
— from Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 by George MacDonald

And inasmuch as the people of the territory and tribe of Caio did resist and mutinously assail the servants of the bishop, he imposes on them a fine of a mark in silver per house, great and small, to be collected and paid within one month from this day, until which time his attendants now accompanying me shall have free quarters and entertainment for themselves and their beasts among you."
— from Pabo, the Priest: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Count de Rochambeau asked me so often if you would not send a body of Continental troops to their relief; if, in the course of twelve days from this they could not be arrived, or that I knew he wanted me to write to you about it, and at length he told me he did not want it.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de