Moreover, the officers of the Blue Hussars, who arrogantly dragged their instruments of death along the pavements, seemed to hold the simple townsmen in but little more contempt than did the French cavalry officers who had drunk at the same cafes the year before.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
"Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou hast delivered a thousand sentences condensed in the compass of a few words; I thank thee for the advice thou hast given me, and take it most gladly.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
As I was by this time conscious of having formerly disgusted my admirers by my reserved loud haughty behaviour, I now endeavoured to conquer that disposition, and the sudden change of my fortune giving me a flow of spirits, I appeared in the most winning and gay manner I could assume.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett
their diet and the Sudin Change of Climate must contribute.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
In the mean time, their making their father drunk, and their solicitous concealment of what they did from him, shows that they despaired of persuading him to an action which, at the best, could not but be very suspicious and shocking to so good a man.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Another authority states that [258] : One of the most constant symptoms produced in man by over-doses of caffein is excessive diuresis, and experiments made upon the lower animals show that caffein acts as a diuretic not only by influencing the circulation, but also by directly affecting the secreting cells, the probabilities being in favor of the first of these theories of action.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
'I have heard that a potent witch dwells amongst the scorched caverns of the mountain, and yon cloud may be the dim shadow of the demon she confers with.' 'Thou art full of the romance of thy native Thessaly,' said Glaucus; 'and a strange mixture of sense and all conflicting superstitions.'
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
She had a baffling realization that her life was in a hopeless mess, that she really had behaved disgracefully, and that she couldn't for a moment understand how it had happened.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I think I am right in saying that not a single shot directed against the ships came within a hundred yards of either."
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Suspicion fell upon a certain member of the tribe, generally a relative of the deceased, and that suspicion could only be verified by putting the accused to the test of some dreadful ordeal.
— from The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
Builder was dumbfounded at the sudden cordiality.
— from Regeneration by Charles Dye
It is an artistic treasure; but it glorifies a murder which Goethe described as the silliest crime ever committed.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw
The colony of Fabrateria was founded on a part of its territory in 630; the remainder and the former city itself were distributed among the surrounding communities.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen
The country is rich and delightful; and the society, consisting chiefly of those attached to the cathedral church, and to such of their families as have fixed there, elegant, and well informed, I have heard, and I believe it, that Salisbury and Canterbury are the two most elegant towns, in this respect, in England, and that many wealthy foreigners have in consequence made them their residence.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney
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