He went away laughing, and at the door of his coach embraced me for the third time.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Our own will, so far as we suppose it to act only under the condition that its maxims are potentially universal laws, this ideal will which is possible to us is the proper object of respect; and the dignity of humanity consists just in this capacity of being universally legislative, though with the condition that it is itself subject to this same legislation.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

The four divisions of his corps were commanded by Generals Potter, Willcox, Ledlie and Ferrero.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and his singular account of his father’s dying words.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

He had locked up a good deal of his capital in new and expensive machinery, and he had also bought cotton largely, for the fulfilment of these orders, taken under contract.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Earnshaw sat, morose as usual, at the chimney corner, and my little mistress was beguiling an idle hour with drawing pictures on the window-panes, varying her amusement by smothered bursts of songs, and whispered ejaculations, and quick glances of annoyance and impatience in the direction of her cousin, who steadfastly smoked, and looked into the grate.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

i165 Now this same morning the Wicked Witch came to the door of her castle and looked out with her
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

His ships were already laden with the treasures of the palace; but his flight was arrested by the patriarch, who armed the powers of religion in the defence of his country; led Heraclius to the altar of St. Sophia, and extorted a solemn oath, that he would live and die with the people whom God had intrusted to his care.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Of the last six years he has been largely occupied as consulting engineer (divested of his cares and position in St. Louis,) and has engaged in public constructions, bridges, sewers, &c., West and Southwest, and especially the Memphis, Tenn., city water-works.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

A temporary departure of his cat.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

They were his father and mother, his brother the Reverend Felix—curate at a town in the adjoining county, home for the inside of a fortnight—and his other brother, the Reverend Cuthbert, the classical scholar, and Fellow and Dean of his College, down from Cambridge for the long vacation.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Its grandmother rushed out of the door of her cottage to take it; but the Queen, standing up in her calash and extending her arms, called out that the child was hers, and that destiny had given it to her, to console her, no doubt, until she should have the happiness of having one herself.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

From the open doors of his chums’ rooms he could see that they, too, were attiring themselves with little regard for how they looked.
— from Fenn Masterson's Discovery; or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise by Allen Chapman

Directly Raleigh heard this he wrote a letter to the king in defence of his conduct.
— from The Boy's Book of Heroes by Helena Peake

Seeing this, Napoleon turned his back on him, and Metternich knew that war would be declared on his country.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

The wise mortal who renounces the tumults of the world, restrains his desires and inclinations, resigns himself to the dispensations of his Creator, and looks with an eye of pity on the frailties of his fellow creatures; whose greatest pleasure is to listen among the rocks to the soft murmurs of a cascade; to inhale, as he walks along the plains, the refreshing breezes of the zephyrs; and to dwell in the surrounding woods, on the melodious accents of the aerial choristers; may, by the simple feelings of his heart, obtain this invaluable blessing.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

He let his head hang despairingly on his chest, and remained for a few moments absorbed in gloomy meditation.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

No, what he considered was the will of God and the dictates of his conscience.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge