But Dali Mami had found on Cervantes the letters addressed to the King by Don John and the Duke of Sesa, and, concluding that his prize must be a person of great consequence, when the money came he refused it scornfully as being altogether insufficient.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“If your Majesty would condescend to state your case,” he remarked, “I should be better able to advise you.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

From the time of Augustus it had been the custom of each of the new sovereigns to commence his reign in such a manner as tended to acquire popularity, however much they all afterwards degenerated from those specious beginnings.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

He rose: but finding that the Spirit made towards the window, clasped his robe in supplication.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

The crop of municipal officials resulting from the original McKinley plan of beginning the work of reconstruction during , instead of after , the war, and among the potential village Hampdens, instead of among the Cromwells, had resulted in some very rascally municipal officials who oppressed the poor, getting the hemp of the small farmer, when they would bring it to town, at their own prices—hemp being to Samar what cotton is to the South.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

When it’s Easter and the church bells are ringing and Christ has risen, I still go about with my bag—to the treasury, to the post, to the police superintendent’s lodgings, to the rural captain, to the tax inspector, to the municipal office, to the gentry, to the peasants, to all orthodox Christians.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That I am——” Very pale and calm, he replied: “I say nothing, my dear.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Mandeville is here reprinted rather as a source of literary pleasure than as a medieval contribution to geography, and it is therefore no part of our duty to follow Mr. Warner in tracking out the authorities to whom the compiler had recourse in successive chapters.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

"Not very original, I say; is it possible he could have read it somewhere, adding a few little touches of his own?
— from The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner

In spite of his clear hereditary right, in spite of his eminent personal qualities, he saw that, unless he reconciled himself to the Church of Rome, he could not count on the fidelity even of those gallant gentlemen whose impetuous valour had turned the tide of battle at Ivry.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

BELCHER'S CONNECTION WITH A GREAT SPECULATION AND BRINGS TO A CLOSE HIS RESIDENCE IN SEVENOAKS.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

56 § X. But in the mediæval, or especially Christian, system of ornament, this slavery is done away with altogether; Christianity having recognized, in small things as well as great, the individual value of every soul.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

John Huss's church is still one of Prague's landmarks, although the Catholic Church has regained its supremacy.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel probably thought that their wisest course would be to let Lord Grey and Brougham and their friends try what they could do with the monstrous spectre of reform which they had conjured up, and wait till the country had recovered its senses before again undertaking to act as ministers of the Crown.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

He would couch his request in such terms as these: 'Owing to dyspepsia affecting my system, and the possibility of any additional disarrangement of the stomach taking place, consequences incalculably distressing would arise, so much so indeed as to increase nervous irritation, and prevent me from attending to matters of overwhelming importance, if you do not remember to cut the mutton in a diagonal rather than in a longitudinal form.'
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

For the first time in his life he really saw a bird, and one minute after it had flown away he could have reproduced its strident note.
— from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

In 1777 he served under Captain Elaby, Colonel Hicks' regiment, in South Carolina.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

"Sic a queer-like chield!" he remarked inwardly, stepped on one side to let him pass—and perceived it was himself reflected from head to foot in a large mirror, which had been placed while he was out the night before.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald