[45] When Cacamatzin had done speaking, Cortes embraced him, and said many fine things to this prince and the great personages around him, and presented the former with three pieces of polished stone, of a pearly hue, containing various figures in different colours; [46] and the other chiefs with blue glass beads.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

He sat down and drank deliberately some coffee, emptying the small cup to the last drop.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

VII, 520 D | Itaque videndum est, ne non satis sit id, quod apud Platonem est in philosophos dictum, quod in veri investigatione versentur quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetant, [25] de quibus inter se digladiari soleant, contemnant et pro nihilo putent, propterea iustos esse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Quand on a de ces choses-là dans sa chambre et
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I, myself, when flushed with fight, or hot, God's curse, with anger—often I myself, Before I well have drunken, scarce can eat: Drink therefore and the wine will change thy will.' 'Not so,' she cried, 'by Heaven, I will not drink
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The condition of the air, sometimes foggy and not pellucid, at another time particularly clear, makes an enormous difference, and statements whether about distance, size, colors, etc., are completely unreliable.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Cette Carte fût envoyée au Sérénissime Roi de Pologne, comme une présent digne de son attention et de sa curiosité, et Sa Majesteté a bien voulu qu'elle me fût communiquée en me permettant d'en faire tel usage qu'il me plairot.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

His preliminary paper does not enable one to make definite statements concerning either his methods or such results as he may have obtained concerning ideational behavior.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

No sensations of dry stroke can exist under these circumstances, for their physiological conditions have been replaced by others.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

All the mock heroics of the Eureka Patrol of Captain Dauntless seemed cheap enough now, even to the frightened Connover as he languidly watched this quiet exhibition of efficiency.
— from Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

It had been prophesied that an Earl of Desmond should conquer England, and this kept the English in a constant state of tremor.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Messrs. Polier et leurs femmes, Madame de Severy, et M. et Madame de Nassau, Mademoiselle de Chandieu, Madame de St. Cierge, et M. avec leurs deux filles jolies et aimables, Mesdames de Crousaz, Polier, de Charrières, &c. font un fonds de bonne compagnie dont on ne se lasse point, et dont M. de Servan est si content qu'il regrette toujours d'être obligé de retourner dans ses terres, et ne respire que pour s'établir tout à fait à Lausanne.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon