From the top of his lonely manor Saint Michael looked at the distant and fertile lands and watched the devil direct the work, take in his crops and thresh the wheat.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

They say he's dying all for love, but that can never be: They say his heart is breaking, mother ­ what is that to me?
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

I was punctual to the appointed hour on the following day, and found Lord Raymond waiting for me.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This became more difficult after Fraulein Leplay's departure, when we let one of our rooms to a German commercial traveller, who in his leisure hours zealously played the flute.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

CHAPTER XVII Of fervent love and vehement desire of receiving Christ The Voice of the Disciple With the deepest devotion and fervent love, with all affection and fervour of heart, I long to receive Thee, O Lord, even as many Saints and devout persons have desired Thee in communicating, who were altogether well pleasing to Thee by their sanctity of life, and dwelt in all ardent devotion.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

20 Dobláronse al fin las piernas de Iwa, y cayó redondo
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

All the officers shouted in horror and leaped up tumultuously; but, throwing her chair between the legs of Lieutenant Otto, who fell down at full length, she ran to the window, opened it before they could seize her and jumped out into the night and the pouring rain.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Deep within her there was something that would not be cheated by phantasies and that demanded some definite answer from life.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Amy was gratified, but of course didn't show it, and demurely answered, "Foreign life polishes one in spite of one's self.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Ravalette smiled, gazed sorrowfully at me, and then went on— “ ‘Believe me, my excellent young friend, that Mesmerism is a fine thing for inducing a “superior condition,” enabling one to write books which send their readers to suicides’ graves; to discover the art of marrying other people’s spouses; for procuring “Air-line” dispatches, and filling lunatic asylums with poor reason-bereft creatures; for stultifying a man’s conscience, and for emboldening one to pass for a philosopher when one is but an ass!’ and Ravalette smiled gravely.
— from The Wonderful Story of Ravalette by Paschal Beverly Randolph

The only thing, so far as Napier could judge, that prevented Julian from introducing the girl forthwith as his future wife was the trifling circumstance that Sir James and Lady Grant had just telegraphed to say they would be detained a fortnight longer at Bad Nauheim.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

An awful sense of despair, a fruitless longing to recall her action, makes her tremble.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

Nor need we be ashamed to devote a few lines to this useful animal, though civilization has appointed to it a very different lot from that of the horse.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

Diplomatic representation in the US: Sao Tome and Principe does not have an embassy in the US, but does have a Permanent Mission to the UN, headed by First Secretary Domingos Augusto FERREIRA, located at 400 Park Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10022, telephone
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I may be the decisive and fateful link between two thousand centuries!"
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

"I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on—" It was an old tune, but the words were new to Captain Hewes—as the girl chanted them, in that repressed voice that yet tore the heart out of him.
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

Now, although we are of those historians who are of opinion that the nature of the personages they celebrate should be developed rather by a recital of their conduct than by a set character on their introduction, it is, nevertheless, incumbent upon us to devote a few lines to the lady who has just entered, which the reader will be so good as to get through, while she is accepting an offer of some white soup; by this means he will lose none of the conversation.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Concubinage existed, especially when the husband was long absent from home; but it was looked upon with disfavor and frequently led to unfortunate consequences, as in the cases of Phoenix and Agamemnon.
— from Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll