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And he kept his word; he died and left everything to his sons, whom, with their wives and children, he had treated all his life as servants.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was only when his orders were disobeyed and life endangered that he spoke thus.
— from The Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith
We find it deadening, at last, even the high spirit of Paul Lintier, and we listen to his confession: "To sleep!
— from Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
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