He married the daughter of Lourdois, the painting-contractor.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Dr. Johnson and Dr. Taylor met with great cordiality; and Johnson soon gave him the same sad account of their school-fellow, Congreve, that he had given to Mr. Hector; adding a remark of such moment to the rational conduct of a man in the decline of life, that it deserves to be imprinted upon every mind: 'There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment of the newly commissioned officer were collected.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Beth was worried by the confusion of her closet and the difficulty of learning three or four songs at once, and Amy deeply regretted the damage done her frock, for Katy Brown's party was to be the next day and now like Flora McFlimsey, she had 'nothing to wear'.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A hawk flew just above the ground, with an even sweep of its wings, suddenly halted in the air as though pondering on the dreariness of life, then fluttered its wings and flew like an arrow over the steppe, and there was no telling why it flew off and what it wanted.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thus, the difference of laws, the various conditions of peace and war, of order and of anarchy, have exercised no perceptible influence upon the gradual development of the Anglo-Americans.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hadding is a variant of the world-old Rhampsinitos tale, but less elaborate, possibly abridged and cut down by Saxo, and reduced to a mere moral example in favour of the goldenness of silence and the danger of letting the tongue feed the gallows.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind.
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

LL.D., legum doctor , doctor of laws (that is, the civil and the canon law).
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The demesne and castle are now held by the Cavendish family, under a lease from the Duchy of Lancaster, which was originally granted to the Pelhams by Henry IV., son of the famous John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, to whom the Honour of the Eagle had been given, on his surrender of the great earldom of Richmond.
— from Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present by John Timbs

Through the depths of Lochkatrine the steed shall career, O'er the peak of Benlomond the galley shall steer, And the rocks of Craig-Royston, like icicles melt, Ere our wrongs be forgot, or our vengeance unfelt!
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

The people had writhed uneasily in their fetters, but now in more than one locality they rose in their might to break them, here demanding a greater degree of liberty, there overthrowing the government.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

R. "Amen." "Deliver, O Lord, the soul of thy servant, as thou deliveredst Moses from the hands of Pharaoh, King of Egypt."
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley

Palpation of Dorsal or Lumbar transverses in the same position may sometimes be desirable.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

He had discovered of late the effective dignity of silence.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The bearded man ushered the doctor out, locked the door and came back to observe Peccary.
— from The Immortals by David Duncan

he's about to make them all kings.—Is your budget of hints yet emptied?” “Not entirely,” answered the counsellor: “it will certainly be required that your Majesty will forbear molesting, as you have done of late, the Duke de Bretagne, and that you will no longer contest the right which he and other grand feudatories have, to strike money, to term themselves dukes and princes by the grace of God—” “In a word, to make so many kings of my vassals.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

Good-bye—and mind what I say: Rest perfectly easy, one and all of you, for our troubles are nearly at an end.” Poor lad, he could not know that his mother would cry some loving, compassionate tears over his letter and put off the family with a synopsis of its contents which conveyed a deal of love to them but not much idea of his prospects or projects.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner