Anne drew a little back, while the others received his compliments, and her sister his apologies for calling at so unusual an hour, but "he could not be so near without wishing to know that neither she nor her friend had taken cold the day before," &c. &c; which was all as politely done, and as politely taken, as possible, but her part must follow then.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

“You mean to say, then, my dear Monsieur la Ramee----” “That unless Monsieur de Beaufort can contrive to metamorphose himself into a little bird, I will continue answerable for him.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The queen also, that she might not seem to be driven by compulsion, complied, as women will, and declared that there was no natural necessity to grieve, and that all distress of spirit was a creature of fancy: and, moreover, that one ought not to bewail the punishment that befell one's deserts.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Il est le support d'applications devenues indispensables à la fonction documentaire dans un organisme de cette taille: bases de données bibliographiques, catalogue, commande de documents et bien entendu accès à des périodiques en ligne (un peu plus d'une centaine actuellement).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The most important settlement of this name, frequently distinguished as Great Echota, was on the south side of Little Tennessee river a short distance below Citico creek in Monroe county, Tennessee.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I have often thought of all these things, my friends, and I seriously believe that the aspect of our globe will some day be completely changed; that by the raising of new continents the sea will cover the old, and that, in future ages, a Columbus will go to discover the islands of Chimborazo, of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains of a submerged America, Asia, and Europe.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The windows were glazed and curtained as in the diningroom, but Clairmont came and told me that he could not unpack my trunks as there were no locks to anything and should not care to take the responsibility.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thence by agreement to Sir J. Minnes’s lodgings, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and so by water to the ferry, and there took Sir W. Batten’s coach that was sent for us, and to Sir W. Batten’s, where very merry, good cheer, and up and down the garden with great content to me, and, after dinner, beat Captain Cocke at billiards, won about 8s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Over the sarcophagus, which rests on certain great consoles carved more than passing well, there is stretched the body of that Bishop in marble, and at the sides are some angels that are drawing back certain curtains very gracefully.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

For though it is true that no good thing that we have done before conversion, can obtain the grace of election; yet the grace of election then appeareth most, when it prevents[3] our doing good, that we might be loved therefore: wherefore he saith again, 'That the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth; it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger' (Rom 9:11,12).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Great is the contrast in every respect between these islands as discovered by Captain Cook in 1778, and their present condition.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Economic aid - recipient: $9.1 million (1995) Currency (code): Barbadian dollar (BBD) Currency code: BBD Exchange rates: Barbadian dollars per US dollar - 2 (2005), 2 (2004), 2 (2003), 2 (2002)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

On this occasion we learned, for the first time, that Lord Egmont's carriage had, some days before, conveyed Coleridge to Bridgewater, with a purpose of staying one single day at that place, and then returning to Mr. Poole's.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

In the beginning of the visit the youngest, named Adriana, taught the grown-up girls those dances which they had learned in their childish days, but had already forgotten; “ My fine Castle ,” “ We will not go again to the Wood ,” “ The Duke de Bourbon ,” &c. &c.
— from Healthful Sports for Young Ladies by Mademoiselle St. Sernin

With an entirely new series of engravings on wood, from designs by C. Clasen, D. Nolen, and others.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various