Robespierre possessed this advantage over Danton, that he did not seem to seek for wealth, either for hoarding or expending, but lived in strict and economical retirement, to justify the name of the Incorruptible, with which he was honoured by his partisans.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Will you come to-morrow, my young friend, and inquire of this good lady where I am to be found to deliver a discourse unto you, and will you come like the thirsty swallow upon the next day, and upon the day after that, and upon the day after that, and upon many pleasant days, to hear discourses?" (This with a cow-like lightness.)
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

To whom one of his men said, Without doubt, sir, this fellow would counterfeit the language of the Parisians, but he doth only flay the Latin, imagining by so doing that he doth highly Pindarize it in most eloquent terms, and strongly conceiteth himself to be therefore a great orator in the French, because he disdaineth the common manner of speaking.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Then was his chariot overturned with a hideous crash, and his face so much wounded with the shivers of the glass, which went to pieces in the fall, that he appeared in the coffee-house with half a dozen black patches upon his countenance, gave a most circumstantial detail of the risk he had run, and declared, that he did not believe he should ever hazard himself again in any sort of wheel carriage.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult!—the foolish must become wise,—and that they can never be.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custom of drinking till he did not know his right hand from his left, he was quite astonished on waking the next morning to find that luck had been as kind to him as love.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Cagliostro was so disgusted, that he determined to quit England.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Ah! you are my true flesh and blood and my real daughter; I am delighted to have discovered your good heart.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

He saw the errors of the king, and deplored them; he denounced Jeffreys as a butcher who had been let loose by the priests; and pitied the king, who was, he thought, swayed by evil counsels.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers by John Greenleaf Whittier

This letter is dated on Trinity-Sunday, 1518, and was accompanied with a protestation, wherein he declared, that "he did [470] not pretend to advance or defend any thing contrary to the holy scriptures, or to the doctrine of the fathers, received and observed by the church of Rome, or to the canons and decretals of the popes: nevertheless, he thought he had the liberty either to approve or disapprove the opinions of St. Thomas, Bonaventure, and other school-men and canonists, which are not grounded upon any text."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

He had become so urgent in the cause, so loud in his denunciations, that he did not stop often to speak of the good things around him.
— from Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

But to return to Filippo himself; his renown and his name had grown so great that he was sent for from far distant places by all who wished to erect buildings, in their desire to have designs and models by the hand of so great a man; and to this end the most powerful means and friendships were employed.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by Giorgio Vasari

"Then we'll do that," he decided, "and take it easy until we get to Rosario.
— from Tom Swift in Captivity, Or, A Daring Escape By Airship by Victor Appleton

Who knows but this text may help to make this day the happiest day in your life?
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

Then the lady of the house should drive to his door with the cards of herself and family, allowing the footman to leave them.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

Then she fled down the hall, down the stairs, and into her room again.
— from Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; Or, Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves by Annie Roe Carr