There seems proof, too, that till the Paradiso was written Dante entertained no great respect for the Scala family ( Purg. xvi.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

297 Seneca refers to this meteor; “Vidimus non semel flammam ingenti pilæ specie, quæ tamen in ipso cursu suo dissipata est ... nec Germanici mors sine tali demonstratione fuit;” Nat.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Cuéntase además que por aquellos días el nuevo gobernador de la provincia celebró una conferencia con este importante personaje, oyendo de sus labios las mayores seguridades de contribuir al reposo público y evitar toda ocasión 20 de disturbios.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

In reality she was a woman of twenty-five, rather strongly built, above the medium height (taller than Shatov), with abundant dark brown hair, a pale oval face, and large dark eyes now glittering with feverish brilliance.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The double exterior nature gave life its relative values.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Nucingen's son-in-law—Eugene de Rastignac—perhaps recalled Madame de Restaud's misfortunes, and doubtless entertained no good feeling for the man who was responsible for them all.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

And thou—thou least of all—whose gentle mother, as thou well knowest, died of a broken heart from the fear to betray her faith—thou, whose father doth even now gird himself for a fight, where to win is to die on a scaffold—shouldst scorn to omit such preparation as may befit thee to live, if it so please God, or to die, if such be his will, a true member of his holy Catholic Church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

"Oh, my dear Evelyn, not going ... and now that you're dressed." Evelyn allowed herself to be persuaded.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

They've done 'emselves no good, Putnam's haven't, this journey."
— from Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant

Nettie dresses eccentrically, Nettie goes to see burlesques, goes to masquerades and restaurants, laughs at everything and everybody, and [Pg 112] contents herself with men's society.
— from Mimi's Marriage by Lidiia Ivanovna Veselitskaia

She has detected every new gleam of intelligence.
— from The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin