Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Amongst fishes, those are most allowed of, that live in gravelly or sandy waters, pikes, perch, trout, gudgeon, smelts, flounders, &c. Hippolitus Salvianus takes exception at carp; but I dare boldly say with [2917] Dubravius, it is an excellent meat, if it come not from [2918] muddy pools, that it retain not an unsavoury taste.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Kutúzov even imagined that Napoleon’s army might turn back through Medýn and Yukhnóv, but the one thing he could not foresee was what happened—the insane, convulsive stampede of Napoleon’s army during its first eleven days after leaving Moscow: a stampede which made possible what Kutúzov had not yet even dared to think of—the complete extermination of the French.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

'I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's,' said Mrs. Cratchit, 'not for his.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The damsel, ceasing never from lamenting and still demanding her pot, died, weeping; and so her ill-fortuned love had end.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“But at a tremendous discount, of course?” “No, for two hundred thousand francs.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

[or Codfish, Newfoundland], Florida , the Desert of
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But to return to Friday; he was so busy about his father that I could not find in my heart to take him off for some time; but after I thought he could leave him a little, I called him to me, and he came jumping and laughing, and pleased to the highest extreme: then I asked him if he had given his father any bread.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

“Why are you weeping?” said I, “better rejoice over me, dear friend, whom I can never forget, for my path is a glad and joyful one.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She was still self-conscious with William; she could not forget that she was one day to be his wife.
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Thus disappointed in my attempt to gain the 138th meridian on a westerly course, as well as in my anticipation of finding Lake Torrens connected with some more central feature, it appeared to me that I could not follow out my instructions better than by attempting to penetrate towards the centre of the continent on a north-west course, for it was clear that if there were any ranges or any mountain chains traversing the interior from north-east to south-west I should undoubtedly strike them; but that if no such chains existed the proposed course would take me to the Tropic on the meridian of 138 degrees, and would enable me to determine the character of the interior, and more central regions of the continent.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

With such a belligerent neighbor as Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa could not feel assured of any continued period of peace, and she therefore maintained a large army of disciplined troops, and founded military academies at Vienna, Neustadt, and Antwerp.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Then, in a sudden passion of grief and excitement he caught me up and threw me from him as far as he could; and I, who had been too proud to associate with red cents, now fell to the very bottom of an inglorious heap of mud.
— from Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking by Susan Warner

With this second discovery, however—being a wise child—came no foolish horror of all pleasant things; only an illumination as to the value of moderation.
— from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland

Louise and Beth, having at last full knowledge of their cousin's desire to increase their bequests, were openly very grateful for her good will; although secretly they could not fail to resent Patsy's choice of the boy as the proper heir of his uncle's fortune.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I have thought sometimes,—I have dreamed of such happiness as ours shall be, but little did I hope ever to see it more than realized now!" Love is with lovers an endless subject, and hours appeared like moments, while they conversed together on the past and the future with new feelings of confidence and joy, and the whole beautiful scenery around seemed as it were haunted by the spirit of thought and of enjoyment, while it was with a thrilling emotion of deep gratification that Marion now felt undoubtingly conscious that she had become indeed an object of preference to Mr. Granville, that she would be thought of always by one whom she could never forget, that she knew the whole story of his heart and affections, and that these were devoted,—ardently devoted to herself; and now resolutely discarding every apprehension of future difficulties or sorrows, all around took the color of her happiness, and she lived only in the joy of the present hour.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

The shells, the length of a tall man and weighing very nearly a ton, were charged with shrapnel, carrying no fewer than twenty thousand bullets apiece.
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

I can never forget the look with which my poor mother used to greet him then.
— from Four Phases of Love by Paul Heyse