THE ORATOR O NE fine morning the collegiate assessor, Kirill Ivanovitch Babilonov, who had died of the two afflictions so widely spread in our country, a bad wife and alcoholism, was being buried.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On the other hand, the zeal with which she urged my opera on the director of the theatre, Ringelhardt, the conductor and the manager was unmistakable, and she did it so effectually that she obtained their consent for its performance, and that very speedily.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And being hereby forced to disperse themselves into severall parts of the world, it must needs be, that the diversity of Tongues that now is, proceeded by degrees from them, in such manner, as need (the mother of all inventions) taught them; and in tract of time grew every where more copious.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But we are not left to mere inference that the Essenes' creed did include the doctrines of the Trinity and the Divine Incarnation.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

And after the adjutant comes the commissary general asking where the stores are to be taken, and the chief of the hospitals asks where the wounded are to go, and a courier from Petersburg brings a letter from the sovereign which does not admit of the possibility of abandoning Moscow, and the commander in chief’s rival, the man who is undermining him (and there are always not merely one but several such), presents a new project diametrically opposed to that of turning to the Kalúga road, and the commander in chief himself needs sleep and refreshment to maintain his energy and a respectable general who has been overlooked in the distribution of rewards comes to complain, and the inhabitants of the district pray to be defended, and an officer sent to inspect the locality comes in and gives a report quite contrary to what was said by the officer previously sent; and a spy, a prisoner, and a general who has been on reconnaissance, all describe the position of the enemy’s army differently.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

K. N. Polzuhin, whom I know to be an excellent young man, will call upon you in a day or two to ask you for the post of secretary at our Home.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The difference arises from the uncertain duration of the two first dynasties; and the vacant space that lies beyond them, as far as the real, or fabulous, times of Fohi, or Hoangti.
— 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

After the final destruction of the temple by the arms of Titus and Hadrian, a ploughshare was drawn over the consecrated ground, as a sign of perpetual interdiction.
— 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

All the metaphors and similes applied to his Excellency, Padre Irene, and Padre Salvi would exactly fit the wounded friar and the description of the thief would serve for each of the outlaws.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

None pay a greater regard to arbitrary divisions of time than those who are excluded from society; and Dorcas mentioned, as if the information were of importance, that it was now the twelfth of May.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Women and the Labor Movement , by Alice Henry, editor of Life and Labour, director of the Training School for Women Workers in Industry.
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

[114] So far from setting aside the authority of the synoptics on "subjective" grounds, I have taken a great deal of trouble to show that my non-belief in the story is based upon what appears to me to be evident; firstly, that the accounts of the three synoptic Gospels are not independent, but are founded upon a common source; secondly, that, even if the story of the common tradition proceeded from a contemporary, it would still be Page 445 worthy of very little credit, seeing the manner in which the legends about mediæval miracles have been propounded by contemporaries.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The warmth of his gratitude to her for this suffused him as he bowed to her; she returned a frank, friendly little nod which brought back to him their brief companionship on the first day on the train.
— from The Blind Man's Eyes by William MacHarg

The Senator from Michigan, who advocates so eloquently this unprecedented retaliation , attempted a description of the torments making the Rebel prisons horrible, but language failed him.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

“Canute gave Norway to his son Sweyn, who, upon the death of his father, was dispossessed of the throne by Magnus I., the son of St. Olaf.
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic

That is the nearest way of spelling the back-handed blow which Tom Tallington delivered in his old school-fellow’s face, while the straightforward blow which was the result of Dick Winthorpe’s fist darting out to the full stretch of his arm sounded like an echo; and the next moment Tom was lying upon the ground.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

When the discussion of the Times article arose, you were in the process, Mr. Oswald, of relating to us an incident of one evening in the home of your brother, in which—with respect to which Paul Gregory, the son of Peter Gregory, was expected to arrive at your brother's home and then to drive about the city of Fort Worth with Marina, she talking to him in Russian and he likewise in Russian, as part of a course of instruction in conversational Russian between Marina and Paul Gregory, who was seeking to improve his command of the Russian language.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

They had desired only to tempt her into admissions which they could plead in justification for past or future severities.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

“Maybe I am, but we will get him off anyway,” shouted Razumihin, bringing his fist down on the table.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky