Twenty paces from the house Kolya stopped and told Smurov to go on ahead and ask Karamazov to come out to him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On his side he engaged to abstain as much as possible from the capital punishments of death and mutilation; his orthodox creed was subscribed with his own hand, and he promised to obey the decrees of the seven synods, and the canons of the holy church.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

L. He was tall, of a pale complexion, ill-shaped, his neck and legs very slender, his eyes and temples hollow, his brows broad and knit, his hair thin, and the crown of the head bald.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The Witnesses depose this of a particular Tyrant, that by beating, cutting off the Hands and Noses of many Women as well as Men, and destroying several persons in great numbers, he exercised horrid Cruelties.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Indeed, he raised his hand to strike him a second time, when the Barmecide cried out that he was mad, upon which my brother controlled himself, and apologised and protested that it was all the fault of the wine he had drunk.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

“And when,” I cried out to him bitterly, “when will that come to pass?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And as they were of the age of about three years, he said, Your laughing will be turned into tears, for your innocent blood must now be shed, and therewith he cut off their heads.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

On foot, without his diadem, and clothed in a mourning habit, he accompanied the funeral as far as the church of the Holy Apostles, where the body was deposited: and if these marks of respect may be interpreted as a selfish tribute to the birth and dignity of his Imperial kinsman, the tears of Julian professed to the world that he had forgot the injuries, and remembered only the obligations, which he had received from Constantius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Even those who have had many babies forget in the course of time how they were once used to them.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

So came the great discovery like a flood across his mind, pouring over it with the cadence of the hymn and sending a tide of pink in sympathy across his forehead.
— from Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Not much chance of that,” he said.
— from Tom Fairfield in Camp; or, The Secret of the Old Mill by Allen Chapman

In these naval hostilities, every disadvantage was on the side of the Greeks; their savage enemy afforded no mercy: his poverty promised no spoil; his impenetrable retreat deprived the conqueror of the hopes of revenge; and the pride or weakness of empire indulged an opinion, that no honor could be gained or lost in the intercourse with Barbarians.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

Almeda Champney offer to help any one with her money that was Louis Champney's!"
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

For an interval Wharton said nothing; then, with a change of tone, he murmured in her ear: "D'you think I'd let you spoil the whole night?
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

They had a long and pretty serious conversation on this head, the result of which was, that they should go together to her, and each exert all the influence he had over her, in order to draw from her some farther eclaircissement of her intentions than could yet be gathered from her behaviour.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

After this growl of disapprobation, the speaker buried himself anew in the advertising columns of the Herald , and I lapsed into a brown study, which had for its germ the query, “Is it, then, more respectable, even among men, to kill time than to save it?”
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

In course of time, however, her present isolation would undermine the foundations of her existence, especially if and when the increasing volume of traffic passing through her port should demand a further expansion of the latter, and, consequently, a further rise in the financial burdens.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann

"Yet," said I, tempted here to interpose, "The dignity of life is not impaired By aught that innocently satisfies The humbler cravings of the heart; and he 355 Is a still happier man, who, for those heights Of speculation not unfit, descends; And such benign affections cultivates Among the inferior kinds; not merely those That he may call his own, and which depend, [158] 360 As individual objects of regard, Upon his care, from whom he also looks For signs and tokens of a mutual bond; But others, far beyond this narrow sphere, Whom, for the very sake of love, he loves.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth