She counted the money out to the waiter and left an extra coin on his tray, whereupon he bowed before her as before a princess of royal blood.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

For some time, although I kept up no correspondence, the memory of this episode remained firmly imprinted on my mind.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And I find not in this more than in other subjects, that the natural sentiments arising from the general appearances of things are easily destroyed by subtile reflections concerning the minute origin of these appearances.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

In the stomach. Wormwood, Mints, Fennel, Chervil, Time, Mother of Time, Marigolds.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And where is now that great city, the metropolis of the Jewish nation, which was fortified by so many walls round about, which had so many fortresses and large towers to defend it, which could hardly contain the instruments prepared for the war, and which had so many ten thousands of men to fight for it?
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

What matters the cause to me, or who gets the victory, if I am killed?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Thus in Persia the Mysteries were dedicated to Mithras, or the Sun; in Egypt, to Isis and Osiris; in Greece, to Demeter; in Samothracia, to the gods Cabiri, the Mighty Ones; in Syria, to Dionysus; while in the more northern nations of Europe, such as Gaul and Britain, the initiations were dedicated to their peculiar deities, and were celebrated under the general name of the Druidical rites.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For though I feel that I am bound to obey her mandate, I feel too that I am debarred by the boon I have accorded to the princess that accompanies us, and the law of chivalry compels me to have regard for my word in preference to my inclination; on the one hand the desire to see my lady pursues and harasses me, on the other my solemn promise and the glory I shall win in this enterprise urge and call me; but what I think I shall do is to travel with all speed and reach quickly the place where this giant is, and on my arrival I shall cut off his head, and establish the princess peacefully in her realm, and forthwith I shall return to behold the light that lightens my senses, to whom I shall make such excuses that she will be led to approve of my delay, for she will see that it entirely tends to increase her glory and fame; for all that I have won, am winning, or shall win by arms in this life, comes to me of the favour she extends to me, and because I am hers.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Wagner, to me, is the great tone colorist, the master of orchestral wealth and dramatic intensity.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

Smithers had also endeavoured to pay his court to me, once when I went down to Somersetshire; but I cut his pretensions short, as I have shown.
— from The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray

What sayest thou, landlord, will it not cut thy soul, when thou shalt see that thou couldest not be content to miss of heaven thyself, but thou must labour to hinder others also?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

With torn clothes and bleeding face, hatless and covered with dirt, I was in scarcely better case than my opponent.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

He seemed to shrink from opening it; but at last he pressed the spring with a covert timid movement of his finger, and the lid, springing open, revealed the Cardinal’s Necklace.
— from The Indiscretion of the Duchess Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace by Anthony Hope

Young men do not become midshipmen altogether through going to the school at Greenwich, and climbing the mast on dry land; they must go out to sea.
— from Gleanings among the Sheaves by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon