Kashtanka lay down on the mattress and shut her eyes; the sound of a bark rose from the street, and she would have liked to answer it, but all at once she was overcome with unexpected melancholy.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With this intention, I called a cab, and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel with me.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

The fire of the Jacobins spent itself in tumult, and threatening, and in expelling from the bosom of their society Collot d'Herbois, Tallien, and about thirty other deputies of the mountain party, whom they considered as specially leagued to effect the downfall of Robespierre, and whom they drove from their society with execration and even blows.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The second takes no account of our desires or the means of satisfying them, and regards only the freedom of a rational being, and the necessary conditions under which alone this freedom can harmonize with the distribution of happiness according to principles.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But above all others, that high priest of Rome, the dam of that monstrous and superstitious brood, the bull-bellowing pope, which now rageth in the West, that three-headed Cerberus hath played his part.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Again, to make the origin and character of the God and Savior stand higher for purity, and partake in the highest degree of the miraculous, the impression must go abroad that he was born of a woman while she was yet a maiden —i. e., before she was contaminated by illicit association with the masculine sex.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

And by the way I did observe that my Lord did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can find that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his great confidant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Our more accurate inquiry will suggest, that, instead of visiting the courts, the camps, the temples, of the East, the two journeys of Mahomet into Syria were confined to the fairs of Bostra and Damascus; that he was only thirteen years of age when he accompanied the caravan of his uncle; and that his duty compelled him to return as soon as he had disposed of the merchandise of Cadijah.
— 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

] MACUMER (Felipe Henarez, Baron de), Spanish descendant of the Moors, about whom much information has been furnished by Talleyrand; had a right to names and titles as follows: Henarez, Duc de Soria, Baron de Macumer.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

A good idea of the exact stamp of horse harnessed to the war chariots of those centuries may be obtained by inspecting the bronze horse of the quadriga from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the date of the Mausoleum being 331-341 B.C. —the building took ten years to erect.
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer

He is, therefore, able to point out that all representations belong, as determinations of the mind, to our internal state, whether they have external things, i. e. bodies in space, for their objects [Pg 139] or not, and that, consequently, they are subject to time.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

181 Abdurrahman Sheref says that the difficulties of this march make this campaign rank highest among Suleiman’s expeditions, p. 239.
— from Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

Before proceeding to a description of the marbles, and other designs on the covers coming under the general head of marbling, it will be proper to give a few directions relative to some important matters required in the way of preparation.
— from A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. by James B. (James Bartram) Nicholson

He died peacefully, on the last day of that month and year, at the age of sixty-six years, eight months, and eight days.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

As a consequence, he had a dollar or two more on hand than was usual at such times.
— from His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

Here we lingered and reveled, rejoicing to find so much music in stony silence, so much splendor in darkness, so many mansions in the depths of the mountains, buildings ever in process of construction, yet ever finished, developing from perfection to perfection, profusion without overabundance; every particle visible or invisible in glorious motion, marching to the music of the spheres in a region regarded as the abode of eternal stillness and death.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

Many another place, and Whitstable above all others, is famous for its oysters, but only at Colchester are the layings the property of the Corporate body, only on the Colne is the development of our old friend the "succulent bivalve" officially watched from the time when it is no bigger than "a drop from a tallow candle" to that at which it conforms to the dimensions of the municipal model in silver.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

He suggests a subdivision of the State into territorial productive districts which should coincide with the territorial districts of the militia system which shall replace the regular army.
— from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome

"I dream of the morning landscape," he writes; "I dream my picture, and presently I will paint my dream."
— from The Enjoyment of Art by Carleton Eldredge Noyes