Nepos tells us he found in some book that C. Laelius, when he was on some occasion at Puteoli, on the calends [the first] of March, 935 being requested by his wife to rise early, (534) begged her not to suffer him to be disturbed, as he had gone to bed late, having been engaged in writing with more than usual success.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Baletti called on me and entreated me to take my meals every day at his house.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Being appointed by Caius Caesar to supersede Gaetulicus in his command, the day after his joining the legions, he put a stop to their plaudits in a public spectacle, by issuing an order, “That they should keep their hands under their cloaks.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I opened all the drawers and handed him all the keys; I gave them myself, I gave him all.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yes. SOCRATES: When a man is in health the physicians will generally allow him to eat when he is hungry and drink when he is thirsty, and to satisfy his desires as he likes, but when he is sick they hardly suffer him to satisfy his desires at all: even you will admit that? CALLICLES:
— from Gorgias by Plato

And with another prolonged grin, the old man closed the gate, re-entered his house, and bolted the door after him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality—he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would swell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

"To demonstrate that by divine advancement he can gradually learn to live by the Eternal Light and not by food.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

“Norma backed slowly and carefully away from the brute, which followed her, creeping deliberately after her as though it intended to make a sudden dart and sting her.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One man of their type, continuator and development of their type, brother (as Taine most rightly says) of Dante and Michelangelo,—one such man we have known with less of the protection of distance; and he was too hard to bear.
— from Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant

The foam gathered about his mouth, and Frank shud Page 64 dered as he saw the cruel teeth, not to speak of the long, deadly and poisonous claws.
— from The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Quincy Allen

At half-past ten o'clock, Mr. Dangerfield abandoned hope.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

" Upon which she said that she did admire how a man could have so much cruelty as to jest and jeer at her ill-health, but that she would spend no more of her breath upon him; and turning toward me she asked a store of questions anent my father, whom for many years she had not seen, and touching the manner of my mother's death, at the mention of which my tears flowed afresh, which caused her also to weep; and calling for her women she bade one of them bring her some hartshorn, for that sorrow, she said, would occasion the vapors to rise in her head, and the other she sent for to fetch her case of trinkets, for that she would wear the ring her brother had presented her with some years back, in which was a stone which doth cure melancholy.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

His romances are modern histories which are founded upon living data, as histories in general are on dead data.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

He had a passable bass voice, not of any great depth, and he sang with gusto.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“And you want to see?” said the M.P.P., looking down at her.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

It would be difficult to describe the torments inflicted on the Bishops, the Priesthood, and the monks; some were drowned, some burnt, some dragged by horses, &c. &c.” “This monarch,” pursues the historian, “was brave, luxurious, and generous; and was the husband of Kilikia, the Princess of Caramania; 23 he was wounded at the taking of Broussa, and died in consequence a few days afterwards, having reigned twenty-two years.”
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

It is that point in the great process of assimilation when different and hitherto almost discordant elements tremble on the verge either of a harmonious blending for all time, or of flying off into eternal divergence and hostility.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

And it's getting dark, and he seems to have got away for the present, whatever he is.
— from Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame