The ambassadors were much amused at the circumstance, and Querini himself, in spite of his scrupulous conscience, was greatly flattered.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[ The ecclesiastical historians, who sometimes guide, and sometimes follow, the public opinion, most confidently assert, that the palace of Constantinople was guarded by legions of angels.
— 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

When I got home I reflected on what had happened, and pronounced myself the conqueror with great triumph.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So the Land of Judea was the Holy Land; but the Holy City wherein God was to be worshipped, was more Holy; and again, the Temples more Holy than the City; and the Sanctum Sanctorum more Holy than the rest of the Temple.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Then this was denied, and it was said that all the pews in the church were going to be changed.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The same conditions which go to develop the gregarious animal also force the development of the leaders.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then it was, too, that the Romans restored to their country those Greeks who had been charged with guilt in the matter of the war with Perseus, after formally acquitting them of the crimes alleged against them.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Cassel , Paulus (Selig), was one of the most distinguished Hebrew Christians whom Germany produced during the 19th century, and one of the most remarkable missionaries ever in the Society's ranks.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He declares that he saw the faces of the two strange men who followed him about the streets of London, watching him among the crowd which gathered at Liverpool to see the expedition embark, and he positively asserts that he heard the name of Anne Catherick pronounced behind him as he got into the boat.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The great swivel gun amidships was being cleared for action, and our captain was giving orders beside it as coolly and quietly as if nothing unusual had occurred that day.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

At one time on horseback, at another on the bounding and impulsive elephant; now bestriding the matchless dromedary on his native prairie, now posted on foot in a jungle crowded with golden pheasants in all the native splendour of their plumage; sometimes matching my solitary craft against a host of foxes on the swelling uplands of Leicestershire, sometimes facing the Calydonian boar or the sanguinary panther in their woodland lairs, dealing showers of leaden death from a hundred tubes, or tracking my fearful prey by the lonely light of a wax vesta and despatching it at midnight with my trusty bowie—wherever there were leagues to be walked, risks to be run, or fastnesses to be rushed there not only have I been the first, but (paradoxical as it may appear) there also have I succeeded and have never been successfully followed.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, January 12th, 1895 by Various

Still they were living, each year more comfortably; the children were growing bigger and stronger; soon they could help at something, if only she could think what.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

We took our position on the Weldon railroad, erected more comfortable huts than we had ever built before, our sick were placed in hospitals fitted up with great taste, and everything which the government or our friends at home, through the agencies of Sanitary and Christian Commissions, could do for their comfort was gladly done.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

This was his invariable custom, and it was greatly owing to the completeness with which these flanking expeditions were carried out that he was able to keep open his connection with Greece.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

No position is pleasanter than that of an English stranger in Canada, with good introductions.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

As the news from without became daily more serious, cricket was given up and the evenings were devoted to drilling and shooting.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Glancing at Delia as she landed on the further side, I noted that her cheeks were glowing, and her eyes brimful of mirth.
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Jack answered, emphatically, and then he went out to consult with Grey, who was sitting in the porch staring hard at an iron post which Jack began to kick vigorously, as he said: "Well, Jerrold, we are in for it, you and I; and we will see it through in shape.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

After conferring with Governor Wilks and others, Cockburn decided on this residence.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose