As soon as he realised that I was making sympathetic inquiries about Rockel, he drew back frightened, and said to me in tones of the deepest anxiety: 'But, conductor, have you no thought for your position, and what you may lose by exposing yourself in this fashion?'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

They wrote back that they would give him a five dollar bill for another such trout as that, not that it was worth that much, but they wished to help the poor man.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

For even a woman of the literati , who has been born [ 219 ] and brought up at the gates of ceremonial form, it is a difficult matter enough to die, but for a slave, the lowest of the low, who knew not the first thing of Ceremony, Righteousness, Truth or Devotion, what about her?
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality; and she little knew that this rough sailor was creeping into her heart and storing there pent forces that would some day burst forth and surge through her in waves of fire.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Omund therefore, wishing to become famous in that fashion, and to win the praise of valour, endeavoured to gain his desire by force, and sailed to Norway with a fleet, to make an attempt on the throne of Ring under plea of hereditary right.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

With a delicate, but firm and sure touch, the doctor slipped a probe into the bullet wound.
— from The Story of Geronimo by Jim Kjelgaard

We might have believed her dead but for a slight trembling of the lips that betrayed the life that was not visible.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

There were at this date between five and six thousand of them in Paris, and all classes of society, ecclesiastics, monks, magistrates, openly paraded their immoral mode of life.
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

In the glare of the headlights each vividly illuminating the other, like two dragons breathing fire and smoke, they flew at each other’s throats.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

The remaining side is that to the north, extending from the territory of Oropus towards the west, as far as Megaris, and consists of the mountainous tract of Attica, having a variety of names, and dividing Bœotia from Attica; so that, as I have before remarked, Bœotia, by being connected with [Pg 80] [CAS. 391] two seas, becomes the Isthmus of the third peninsula, which we have mentioned before, and this Isthmus includes within it the Peloponnesus, Megaris, and Attica.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

They came in shortly, saying that the drums beat for all soldiers to arm and repair to Charing Cross, for that Wyatt was seeking to come in by Westminster, and had reached as far as Brentford.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

The Treasury soon found that to squeeze money from him was harder than to draw blood from a stone: the debt remained unsettled.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

That attainment was the experience of entire sanctification as received definitely by faith and subsequent to regeneration.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

They offered to supply then: customers with sixteen gallon casks of single beer for eleven pence, and the same quantity of double beer for a shilling, the cask included.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

Drain well, heap upon a hot dish; butter freely, and season to taste.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland