The order had been given on that day to make prisoners.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If you spend your strength in acquiring power, or in politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interests—if you dissipate the modicum [Pg 54] of reason, of earnestness, of will, and of self-control that constitutes your nature in one particular fashion, you cannot dissipate it in another.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Little Mermaid Little Tiny or Thumbelina Little Tuk The Loveliest Rose in the World The Mail-coach Passengers The Marsh King's Daughter The Metal Pig The Money-box What the Moon Saw The Neighbouring Families The Nightingale There is no Doubt about it
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Her dress of soft, white muslin was quite simple—the ideal dress for a young girl—and yet it was so beautifully made, so perfectly finished in every detail, that Miss Polehampton never looked at it without an uneasy feeling that she was too well-dressed for a schoolgirl.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

How many times have I heard you say that the function of a magistrate, or office of dignity, discovereth the merits, parts, and endowments of the person so advanced and promoted, and what is in him.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

XXII 190 Nigh as he drew, they might perceive his head To be unarmd, and curld uncombed heares Upstaring stiffe, dismayd with uncouth dread; Nor drop of bloud in all his face appeares Nor life in limbe: and to increase his feares 195 In fowle reproch of knighthoods faire degree, About his neck an hempen rope he weares, That with his glistring armes does ill agree; But he of rope or armes has now no memoree.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And this news was slightly disconcerting to me personally, because I had written from the country to Mrs. Strickland, announcing my return, and had added that unless I heard from her to the contrary, I would come on a certain day to drink a dish of tea with her.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Your dignity, dear, the most precious thing a girl has, you've simply thrown it to the winds!
— from The Treasure by Kathleen Thompson Norris

He deceived the most practised eye as to the white threads which for some time past had invaded his hair.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The coachman was a Malay, and wore that singular screen-formed straw hat, which so peculiarly distinguishes the male population of his race.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Nor, with one singular exception, to which we shall subsequently allude, did that memory play him the woful tricks to which the very aged are so often subject.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 2. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

His achievement in divining the mental processes of two children hysterical with excitement, his magnetic taming of those fluttering little hearts, his inspired avoidance of a fatal false step at a critical point in the moral life of two human beings in the making—all this seemed as nothing to him—an incident of the day's routine already forgotten.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I had to regard myself (then a boy of fourteen years) as an utterly abandoned sinner, and it was with the greatest difficulty that my parents succeeded in pacifying me over my want of faith.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

But on her deathbed she told me that she felt the Blessed Mary (as she called her) had given those days to my poor mistress to make up to her for all she'd lost and all she'd never had, and that she'd confessed her part in it and been cleared, long ago.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Duo tamen moneo; primum, ut faciens vestigia geometrica, ducas ab elevatione A totidem lineas ad latera vestigii B , quot angulos invenies in prominentiis supradictæ elevationis A , ut manifestè vides in lineis quas ex punctis composui, illæ enim à stylobata A cadunt super vestigium B ; quare prominentia major in elevatione L facit lineam majorem L in vestigio.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo