Alas a doubt in case of more go to say what it is cress.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

The next day I called on Madame Varnier to give her Madame Morin’s letter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“The following day I called on M. de Morosini, and took him to Denmark Street incognito.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The next day I called on Madame Vanloo, who informed me that Madame Blondel had charged her to thank me for having gone away, while her husband wished me to know that he was sorry not to have seen me to express his gratitude.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I was so much ashamed at hearing his words, that from that very day I cut off my curls.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

This being done, he left Diogenes in command of Media, and Apollodorus of Susiana; and sent Tychon, his chief military secretary, to command the district along the Persian Gulf.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The young men now arrived at Lemercier's apartment, an entresol looking on the Boulevard des Italiens, consisting of more rooms than a bachelor generally requires; low-pitched, indeed, but of good dimensions, and decorated and furnished with a luxury which really astonished the provincial, though, with the high-bred pride of an oriental, he suppressed every sign of surprise.
— from The Parisians — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I merely wished to convince the countess that the ' Bohème ' from which I have chosen my friends, does indeed consist of men, and not of angels, but that it would be impossible for me to introduce the Fräulein to any one there, from whom the history of morals and civilization in this city could learn as much as it could from certain members of the best circles."
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

Going over to London the next day, I called on Mr. Weed, then there, and the mails not yet to hand.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

But Lounsbury's detective instinct came once more into play.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

Removal of glands in the neck or beneath the jaw, that have become diseased in consequence of malignant disease in the lip, is attended with danger, and not followed by any benefit.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

If only, pretty warbler, So long and so Rudely disturbed, I could once more hear thee singing!
— from Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods The Ring of the Niblung, part 2 by Richard Wagner

“As you boys all know,” announced the dean in chapel one morning, “this Carnival attracts the populace of the town and surrounding countryside.
— from Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

This, I cannot help thinking, is too high, as the risk of a total loss may be ventured in order to save so great a sum; it is surely a great temptation, and I dread its consequences on more accounts than one.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

He knows what I meant to do, in case of my grandfather recurring to this disposition of his property; and, further than this, I must not influence Frank.
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

The following recipe for making a pomander we find in an old play: [628] “Your only way to make a pomander is this: take an ounce of the purest garden mould, cleans’d and steep’d seven days in change of motherless rose-water.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer