Some of these doubtless had penetrated to Adams and converted Daniel Read, who was always liberal in his belief.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“Into the vewy chief...” Denísov repeated with a smile.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

to see how Sir W. Batten governs all and tramples upon Hurlestone, but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for that man’s death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doating rogue, will have all the sway there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Roasting coffee is work of a sort which anybody can do, which a few people can do really well, and no one so well but that further improvement is possible.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

When a musician strikes a note on an instrument, other notes start up of themselves, not so loud as the first, yet connected with it by certain definite relations, which coalesce with it and determine its quality.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

“To make herself famous by defiling the Count de Ricla, who was a model of justice and virtue before knowing this Messalina.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She did the opposite; giving herself to me, and telling him to write to the Comte de Ricla whatever he liked.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was quite dark long before we reached Santa Cruz, and exceedingly cold: when there, we easily found the house of the gentleman to whom we had a letter of introduction, the Capitaŏ de Fragata Joam da Cruz de Reis, who is the superintendant of the palace and estate.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

"Dey all duh cry, duh cry; dey run wid cry to all dem beef fo' say: "'We daddy done die, make
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

And then imagination led us to some metropolitan workhouse, situated in the midst of crowded streets and alleys, filled with noxious vapours, and ringing with boisterous cries, where an old and feeble woman, imploring pardon for her son, lay dying in a close dark room, with no child to clasp her hand, and no pure air from heaven to fan her brow.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

CASTLES, and OLIVER, and such, Who dont as yet full salary touch, Nor keep their chaise and pair, nor buy Houses and lands, like TOM and I, Of course dont rank with us salvators ,[3] But merely serve the Club as waiters, Like Knights, too, we've our collar days, (For us , I own, an awkward phrase,)
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Then the crying ceased, and all was still inside, while [Pg 91] Harold worked on until enough snow was cleared away to allow of his opening the door about a foot, and through this narrow opening he forced his way into the cold, damp room, where for a moment he could see nothing distinctly, for the sunlight outside had blinded him, and there was but little light inside, owing to the barred and snow-bound windows.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

There was a certain deep roar, which completely drowned all other voices.
— from Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by John Trevena

The chief danger really was lest they become too settled in the protective attitude.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

In countrie doth rest, what season is best.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

Hélène, poor girl, who is so rudely treated by Comte de Rivailler, would call forth a smile on the countenance of any one when she announces her misfortune in this stilted phraseology, "He asked of his own will what he could not obtain from mine."
— from Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker