I will not have it cast in my teeth, at some future day, that Madame Fosco acted under my coercion, and was, in plain fact, no witness at all.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

O sweet my mother, cast me not away, Delay this marriage for a month, a week,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Several times during the march false alarms had been given and the soldiers of the escort had raised their muskets, fired, and run headlong, crushing one another, but had afterwards reassembled and abused each other for their causeless panic.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For as the humor of Melancholie in the selfe is blacke, heauie and terrene, so are the symptomes thereof, in any persones that are subject therevnto, leannes, palenes, desire of solitude: and if they come to the highest degree therof, mere folie and Manie : where as by the contrarie, a great nomber of them that euer haue bene convict or confessors of Witchcraft, as may be presently seene by manie that haue at this time confessed: they are by the contrarie, I say, some of them rich and worldly-wise, some of them fatte or corpulent in their bodies, and most part of them altogether giuen ouer to the pleasures of the flesh, continual haunting of companie, and all kind of merrines, both lawfull and vnlawfull, which are thinges directly contrary to the symptomes of Melancholie, whereof I spake, and further experience daylie proues how loath they are to confesse without torture, which witnesseth their guiltines, where by the contrary, the Melancholicques neuer spares to bewray themselues, by their continuall discourses, feeding therby their humor in that which they thinke no crime.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

The Tyrians erected wooden towers on their battlements opposite the mole, from which they might annoy the enemy; and if the engines of war were brought near any other part, they defended themselves with missiles and shot at 128 the very ships with fire-bearing arrows, so that they deterred the Macedonians from approaching the wall.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

"This convoy was supposed to put into Cadiz, but after learning that the English fleet lay across those waterways, the admiral decided to make for a French port.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It fell to my lot to weave the tissue of innocent deceptions by which we hoped to divert the master from a definite acceptance of our invitation.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

As man's instruments are dependent upon many channels for their complete performance, so the human brain and body have their many dependencies that must fully and properly be nourished to maintain their power.
— from The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis

Christian or Mussulman, Pagan or Druse, thou mayest figure as; but spare my race, Fakredeen, they are fallen——’ ‘But not so base as I am.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

When first I loved thee Something immortal darted through my flesh And made me godlike.
— from A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems by George Santayana

He, however, determined to move forward and give battle.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

The defendants, as a random experiment, determined to move for a new trial in this case.
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester

Did this mean further anxiety for Diana?
— from The Squaw Man: A Novel by Julie Opp

I wish my dear Madam, very sincerely, that the former mode of destruction may speedily befall all your present hopes, and that in future you will be surrounded by so many blessings as will leave you no room for the exercise of any hope but their continuance, My duty to my father, and my love to William, I trust that he improves in Latin; pray tell him that I was vexed not to find him so good a scholar in that language as I expected; when I next see him I hope my expectations will be exceeded.
— from A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper

If we take down the middlers’ flag and put ours up, the middlers will set their hearts on getting back at us, and then the thing will seesaw back and forth until there’s serious trouble.
— from Making the Nine by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

I followed the road down the mountain for a way, and then, as I am a tracker and the moon was well up, I found a path which others had taken since the dew.
— from The Mountain of Fears by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland

Evidence of such things being offered at the graves of the dead has been collected in such abundance by Dr. Tylor, Mr. Frazer, and Mr. Herbert Spencer, that I need not here adduce any further examples of so familiar a practice.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen