The Comte de Rochefort bowed like a man who acknowledges the superiority of the master as great, and retired.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant. maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon. digress, ramble, battre la campagne[Fr][obs3], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Nous allons mettre en ligne notre base de 400.000 livres français à partir de fin juillet 1998, et elle sera en accès gratuit pour des recherches bibliographiques (l'achat des livres sera payant bien sûr!).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The king gave him no hasty or distinct reply; but laid the matter before his friends in a conference at a specially appointed meeting.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“Do not say that, Debray,” returned Beauchamp, laughing, “for here is Château-Renaud, who, to cure you of your mania for paradoxes, will pass the sword of Renaud de Montauban, his ancestor, through your body.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I began the second vol. of my Dictionary, room being left in the first for Preface, Grammar, and History, none of them yet begun.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

It is certainly a queer city, La Rochelle, with strong characteristics of its own streets tangled like a labyrinth, sidewalks running under endless arcaded galleries like those of the Rue de Rivoli, but low, mysterious, built as if to form a suitable setting for conspirators and making a striking background for those old-time wars, the savage heroic wars of religion.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"No, I don't, and I don't give a damn!" replied Bishop, looking at him more closely, I thought.
— from John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams

If the Indefatigable and Queen Mary had been lost during the second hour before Jellicoe arrived I should have felt no surprise—we were then deliberately risking big losses—but during the first hour of fighting, when we had ten ships against five—and five much weaker individually than our ten—we lost two fine battle cruisers.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

Not that we have ever been able to accumulate any vast amount of coin, specie, mazuma, cush, dust, rhino, bullion, long green—in short, money.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

Nautical directions, and other detached remarks, by Lieutenant Ball, concerning Rio de Janeiro, Norfolk Island, Ball Pyramid, and Lord Howe Island.
— from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip

And as Lockhart omits this, I may quote the opening in Gibson’s excellent version 15 :— The winds were sadly moaning, the moon was on the change, The fishes they were gasping, the skies were wild and strange, ’Twas then that Don Rodrigo beside La Cava slept.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

But in France it became a part of the established law; it was [116] incorporated into the text-books of feudalism, and it is distinctly recognized by Louis IX.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

All his passion for Mrs. Latimer had died in that fearful moment when he looked on the curiously passive husband in the doorway; remorse bit like acid into the depths of his heart.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman

He went out as you know simply as correspondent and to distribute relief, but lately he has been fighting for these people—of course he has!—and when he goes back he is to be one of their regular leaders.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.