Cruel!' exclaimed Agnes, relinquishing her hold.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,) These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart, While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city, Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets, Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up, Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces; (O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

I relapsed into silence again till we got to Varennes, and then I said,— “If I thought you could eat a roast fowl with as good an appetite as mine, I would dine here.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Mr. Jarndyce without further ceremony entered a room there, and we followed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She called Emily, and remained alone with her.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Cecidit illic ergo Boegsceg Rex, et Sidroc ille senex comes, et Sidroc Junior comes, et Obsbern comes,” etc.— Annales Rerum Gestarum AElfredi Magni, Auctore Asserio.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

It might well be so; none had so clearly established a right to his esteem as a warrior.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Criticism: Essays, by Birrell, in Collected Essays and Res Judicatae; by Stephen, in Studies of a Biographer; by Robertson, in Pioneer Humanists; by Frederick Harrison, in Ruskin and Other Literary Estimates; by Bagehot, in Literary Studies; by Sainte-Beuve, in English Portraits.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Zisca, willing to give his troops some respite from fatigue, now entered Prague, hoping his presence would quell any uneasiness that might remain after the late disturbance: but he was suddenly attacked by the people; and he and his troop having beaten off the citizens effected a retreat to his army, whom he acquainted with the treacherous conduct of the Calixtans.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Besides these there are extensive Latin treatises (1728-53) on Logic, Ontology, Cosmology, Empirical and Rational Psychology, Natural Theology, and all branches of Practical Philosophy.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The spot where Julia stood to await the return, of her sister was within a few yards of a large white-thorn double ditch, on each side of which grew a close hedge of thorns, that could easily afford room for two or three men to walk abreast between them.
— from The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The power to use words was in Whitman's eyes a divine power, and was bought with a price:— "For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground, and breasting river and lake, After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes, After complete faith, after clarifying elevations and removing obstructions, After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words."
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

It is not difficult, in reading these chapters of Lyell's great work, to realise what an effect they would have on the mind of Darwin, as new facts were collected and fresh observations concerning extinct and recent forms were made in his travels.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

The noise of omnibuses and cabs came even and regular from Brompton Road, and occasionally a hansom passed up Raphael Street.
— from A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett

And indeed, having heard the report of your so inestimable knowledge, I have left my country, my friends, my kindred, and my house, and am come thus far, valuing at nothing the length of the way, the tediousness of the sea, nor strangeness of the land, and that only to see you and to confer with you about some passages in philosophy, of geomancy, and of the cabalistic art, whereof I am doubtful and cannot satisfy my mind; which if you can resolve, I yield myself unto you for a slave henceforward, together with all my posterity, for other gift have I none that I can esteem a recompense sufficient for so great a favour.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The princes of Charles the Great's family, by their quarrels, broke up his empire altogether; and nobody had anything like the power of an emperor until Otho I., who became king of Germany in 936, and was crowned emperor at Rome in 962.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

But in that quick instant the people looked at him with changed eyes, and received his words with a groan of rage that silenced him.
— from The Bondman: A New Saga by Caine, Hall, Sir

Before proceeding to give the substance of my notes on the qualtagh of the present day I may as well finish with Cregeen, for he adds the following information:—‘A company of young lads or men generally went in [ 337 ] old times on what they termed the qualtagh , at Christmas or New Year’s Day, to the houses of their more wealthy neighbours; some one of the company repeating in an audible voice the following rhyme:— Ollick ghennal erriu as bleïn feer vie, Seihll as slaynt da’n slane lught thie; Bea as gennallys en bio ry-cheilley, Shee as graih eddyr mrane as deiney; Cooid as cowryn, stock as stoyr, Palchey phuddase, as skaddan dy-liooar, Arran as caashey, eeym as roayrt; Baase, myr lugh, ayns uhllin ny soalt; Cadley sauchey tra vees shiu ny lhie, As feeackle y jargan, nagh bee dy mie. ’
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir