To the driver he also recommended me, giving at the same time an injunction about taking me, I think, to the wharf, and not leaving me to the watermen; which that functionary promised to observe, but failed in keeping his promise: on the contrary, he offered me up as an oblation, served me as a dripping roast, making me alight in the midst of a throng of watermen.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It consisted of turtle soup made from the daintiest hawksbill, a red mullet with white, slightly flaky flesh, whose liver, when separately prepared, makes delicious eating, plus loin of imperial angelfish, whose flavor struck me as even better than salmon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The next day, after dinner, Camille wrote me a note, as I expected, requesting me to give up all other engagements in order to present myself at five o’clock at the Palais-Royal, in the same room in which the duchess had already received me the day before.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I bid you heartily welcome!” said the poor old fellow, fighting manfully against the gloom of the deserted house, and receiving me with the sociable and courteous attention of the bygone time.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I kneeled on the ground beside her and put her poor head upon my shoulder, whereupon she drew her arm round my neck and burst into tears.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Chardin delighted him, and Rembrandt moved him to ecstasy.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

He had found out, at Yarmouth, some foreign dealers who knew that country, and they had drawn him a rude map on paper, which he could very well understand.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They put their engineers to work on his specifications, and designed him a Ryan monoplane, the neat stream-lined job that was christened the Spirit of St. Louis.
— from Famous Flyers and Their Famous Flights by Jack Wright

On the 15th May we relieved our 4th Battalion in the right sub-sector, staying there for ten days, with a three days' holiday at Red Mill in the middle.
— from The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills

" Farther on, in the same speech—after alluding to the strong feeling in the Northern States against the extension of Slavery, not only as a question of politics, but of conscience and religious conviction as wellhe deems him a rash man indeed "who supposes that a feeling of this kind is to be trifled with or despised."
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

La Muse du Departement has a rather more complicated record than its companion piece in Les Parisiens en Province , L’Illustre Gaudissart .
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I really am quite unhappy and ashamed to think of myself as vigorous and well at the expense of his denying himself any rich man's caprice he might take a fancy to.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

It has made great strides in the way of popular education, with the result pictured by the special correspondent of the London Times : “The property that is taken from some of the Capuchin convents in Tuscany, and sold at auction, is bought back at the auction by ‘pious benefactors,’ who recall the scattered fraternity to their deserted and desecrated homes, and restore monachism on conditions more favorable than those on which it stood before its suppression.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

She looked fagged to death herself, and Radcliffe made her promise to roll up in a blanket on a browse bed.
— from Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee

Daniel had already received Mutimer’s reply, and was nursing a fit of anger.
— from Demos by George Gissing

“I did hear a rumor,” Mr. Dowling continued, “that some one had bought one small plot on the outskirts of the estate.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The unknown dangers he anticipated, rendered more [Pg 331] terrific by their vague indefinite character, were enough to appal a stouter bosom.
— from The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby