And he did fall asleep at once, and slept soundly without dreams, but waked early, at seven o'clock, when it was broad daylight.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our fathers contented themselves with revenging an insult with the lie, the lie with a box of the ear, and so forward; they were valiant enough not to fear their adversaries, living and provoked we tremble for fear so soon as we see them on foot.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

So I took my leave of them, believing that it is great odds that we ever all see one another again; for I dare not go any more to that end of the towne.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So to the office again, where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and nothing else, and so to Sir W. Batten’s, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom I could not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us from the Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great estate and of good report), about some business from them to us, which we answered by letter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And then suddenly they swept round to the eastward and streamed eastward, growing smaller and smaller and clearer and clearer again until they vanished from the sky.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The physico-theological proof may add weight to others—if other proofs there are—by connecting speculation with experience; but in itself it rather prepares the mind for theological cognition, and gives it a right and natural direction, than establishes a sure foundation for theology.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Say everything kind to your mother and the girls, and tell them I shall come ever again shortly and see them all.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The combination, which the autobiographical account reveals, of egoism and self-seeking, of cowardice and vanity, of pious profession and cringing obsequiousness, of vaunted magnanimity and spiteful malice to his foes, of religious scruples and selfish cunning, points to a meanness of conduct which he was forced to assume by circumstances, but which, it is suggested, was not an expression of his true character.
— from Josephus by Norman Bentwich

The maternal censorship having been removed, she wrote exactly as she felt.
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

It was then that he formulated and presented to the Imperial Government his plan for the future policy of the empire, the chief object of which was the unification of all systems, namely military, educational, economical, and suchlike.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

These men, by working for the actors in drama, or by working for the publishers in the prose and verse pamphlet (for the latter form still held its ground), earned a subsistence which would seem sometimes to have been not a mere pittance, and which at any rate, when folly and vice did not dissipate it, kept [Pg 454] them alive.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

They can elect another Sultan, and provoke a dynastic war between province and province, behind which lurks a worse despotism than before; and so it goes on from century to century.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

There was a roar of laughter in the court, and the old alderman turned very fiercely upon Esau, and shook his head at him, but I half fancy I saw him smile, as he turned to a gentleman at his side.
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn

he ejaculated, and snatching up his fish and line and the axe he started on a run for the shelter.
— from Guns and Snowshoes; Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Edward Stratemeyer

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— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

Can hungry people eat a silly shout, or will enemies be conquered with a singing?”
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

However, this method did not enable them to learn what their agents were thinking, but only what they said, heard, and saw.] cried Kinney's agent; at the same time she made a special effort, and succeeded in breaking off a good half of the branch.
— from The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint