It seems such a pity that you should have to spend the day at the hotel, and also a little uncomfortable . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

But watch that broken down old man reduced in the downward course of life to the weakness of a child; not only is he quiet and peaceful, he would have all about him quiet and peaceful too; the least change disturbs and troubles him, he would like to see universal calm.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the eyes of both nations Alexius was false and contemptible; the base and spurious race of the Angeli was rejected with clamorous disdain; and the people of Constantinople encompassed the senate, to demand at their hands a more worthy emperor.
— 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

A diligent attention to his profession as a lawyer did not hinder the editor of the Literary Gem from giving some of his leisure time to the observation and study of Nature.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

But when Moses had celebrated this festival for the victory, he permitted the Hebrews to rest for a few days, and then he brought them out after the fight, in order of battle; for they had now many soldiers in light armor.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

They have not considered, that every other nation, to which we can possibly gain access, or from whom we have any history derived, appears to have expressed foreign terms differently from the natives, in whose language they were found.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

I never saw anyone like her!” said he, offering Nicholas a pipe with a long stem and, with a practiced motion of three fingers, taking down another that had been cut short.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Sir, I have stood at the door and heard her whipped, when it seemed as if every blow cut into my naked heart, and I couldn’t do anything to help her; and she was whipped, sir, for wanting to live a decent Christian life, such as your laws give no slave girl a right to live; and at last I saw her chained with a trader’s gang, to be sent to market in Orleans,—sent there for nothing else but that,—and that’s the last I know of her.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He had already been wondering, indeed, what any one could be doing at that hour in the morning, shouting on the mountain side.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

After the death of Samuel Ollive in 1769, Esther, his widow, enjoyed the messuage until her own death, in 1800, when a division among the heirs became necessary.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

Meanwhile a large amount of plunder had been discovered at the house of one Cornelius Howard; and the evidences of his guilt so multiplied against him that he finally confessed his connection with the outlaw band and agreed to point out their fort in the mountains.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

So Tom sat down, and told him all; to which he listened with the greatest interest.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

and they brought Oswald, and immediately thereafter, someone was banging on the door trying to get through, and I tried to push him out, and he said he was a doctor, and that he had been called.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

They were going out to dine at the house of a lady of rank, the Countess Dowager of Milborough, a lady standing high in the world's esteem, of whom his wife stood a little in awe; and he calculated that this feeling, if it did not make his task easy would yet take from it some of its difficulty.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

In the evening attended a public dance at the hotel, under the direction of Mr. Jameson, who is teacher in the school.
— from The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago as Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker by Fred A. Gannon

"The place was deserted; all the houses were in darkness.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, January 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The old fishing and seafaring village, which has now almost lost the recollection of its first estate in its absorption with the care of the summer colony, was sparsely dropped along the highway bordering the harbor, and the shores of the river, where the piles of the time-worn wharves are still rotting.
— from Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) by William Dean Howells

They had been dining at the Hotel Milan with Ricordi, the [Pg 191] music publisher, his wife, and one or two more.
— from Verdi: Man and Musician His Biography with Especial Reference to His English Experiences by Frederick James Crowest