At first the prisoner turned pale and coughed nervously into his sleeve, but soon the stillness, the general monotony and boredom infected him too.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This is the policy by which Rome grew so great, namely that of absorbing conquered nations into herself on terms of equality.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

JOHNSON.' He now refreshed himself by an excursion to Oxford, of which the following short characteristical notice, in his own words, is preserved '* * * is now making tea for me.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I put down my muff on the stile, and went up to the tall steed; I endeavoured to catch the bridle, but it was a spirited thing, and would not let me come near its head; I made effort on effort, though in vain: meantime, I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I could not imagine how it was possible to hide me in her house, every nook and corner of which was known to the Flint family.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

It seemed to me so obvious, in this case, that I could not imagine how he was to turn their anger.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The office of the Pope he deeply revered, but the Papal absolution avails [Pg cvii] nothing in his eyes compared with one tear of heartfelt repentance.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But if his father had remembered him (he could not, indeed, have been altogether unaware of his existence) he would have sent him back to the cottage, as the child would only have been in the way of his debaucheries.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Through the autumn he was much busied with his father's matters; and it rejoiced his parents that the lad, who had come now into his fifteenth year, was wise and foreseeing, and looked well to all that was trusted to his hand.
— from The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow by Allen French

On me the most severe was the strain; for myself I cared not, I had so often died in spirit in my direful journeys that actual death was nothing to me.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

" He had never before employed her Christian name in her presence.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

The old chief, now in his eightieth year, was baptized by the name of Jesse.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

She could not imagine his yielding to either threats or persuasions.
— from The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler

But he could not infect Hiram Look with his dissatisfaction.
— from The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day

In vain do they adduce St. Hilary, who said in later times: "There is nothing created which is not corporeal, neither in heaven nor on earth; neither visible nor invisible; all is formed of elements; and souls, whether they inhabit a body or are without a body, have always a corporeal substance."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

It was truly to one, who might look upon it as a reality and no juggle, a frightful sight to see, and although Marchdale, of course, tolerably well preserved his equanimity, only now and then, for appearance sake, affecting to be wonderfully shocked, poor Tom Eccles was in such a state of horror and fright that he could not, if he would, have flown from the spot, so fascinated was he by the horrible spectacle.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest