There I again partook of his hospitality, and, taking leave of him the day following, I resumed my voyage up the river.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Do you know, my dear fellow, I really must kiss you, and embrace you, this very moment.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Person of Christ is described first in relation more especially to Deity, as εἰκὼν τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, and secondly in relation more especially to created things, as πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

There were large trees in small pots, so that they stood so stunted in growth, and ready to burst the pots; in other places, there was a little dull flower in rich mould, with moss round about it, and it was so petted and nursed.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I suppose I must have grown desperate, for I raised my fists and said dem's my passes; and he let me alone.
— from Minnie's Sacrifice by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Meanwhile the foreign ambassadors who had been honoured by an invitation to the audience—Greeks from Thebes, Sparta, or Athens; Sakae from the regions of the north; Indians, Arabs, nomad chiefs from mysterious Ethiopia-ascended in procession the flights of steps which led from the town to the palace, bearing the presents destined for its royal master.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

The winter of 1613-14 was marked by most disastrous floods in Romney Marsh, in Lincolnshire, in the Isle of Ely, and about Wisbech, and most of all in Norfolk
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Only the painted ornamentation of these latter goblets is different, for it represents mostly the cuttle-fish (sepia), but also spirals, or that curious sea-animal which [71] so frequently occurs on the pottery of Mycenæ (see No. 213, a , b , p. 138), but never on the Mycenean goblets.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

Is your dog faulty in ranging, may be too high, or may be no ranger at all, mate with the reverse, selecting your pups according to what has been stated above.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

From my earliest days I have avoided society as much as I could decorously, for I received more pleasure in the cultivation and improvement of my own thoughts than in walking up and down among the thoughts of others.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

This was a remarkable censorship, and the origin of many deadly feuds: it rendered Marcus Porcius, to whom all the harshness was attributed, uneasy during the remainder of his life.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

As to the Nineteen Day Feast, it rejoiceth mind and heart.
— from Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá