On the north she has Russia, who envies and watches her; on the south England, with whom she is in accord even to her official language.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Five minutes afterward he entered the hotel of La Chevrette, where pretty Madeleine, the hostess, came to him.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Let me reason with the supporters of this opinion, who have any knowledge of human nature, do they imagine that marriage can eradicate the habitude of life?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

The elder of these, Caius 649 , having very much reduced his estate, retired from town, and being prohibited by Tiberius from standing for a pro-consulship in his year, put an end to his own life.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

These dangers were followed by the death of Vindex, at which being extremely discouraged, as if fortune had quite forsaken him, he had thoughts of putting an end to his own life; but receiving advice by his messengers from Rome that Nero was slain, and that all had taken an oath to him as emperor, he laid aside the title of lieutenant, and took upon him that of Caesar.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Concolitanus: the other king, Aneroestes, fled with a few followers; joined a few of his people in escaping to a place of security; and there put an end to his own life and that of his friends.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Christie had not deceived herself, and it was evident that her old lover meant to try his fate again, if she continued to smile upon him as she had done of late.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Semper found the custom of eating the heart or liver of their slain enemies among the Manobos in eastern Mindanao (Mosto, p. 91, note 2).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

I can never be thankful enough to him or love him enough.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

The stoutest heart quailed as the milky foam drew nearer and nearer: lips that had never uttered the name of God, from their childhood upward, except to profane it, convulsively gasped to Him in prayer: eyes that had often looked down steadily from the trembling topmast, through the rage and conflict of a tempest, turned giddy before the prospect; and the most stubborn bosoms
— from Hildebrand; or, The Days of Queen Elizabeth, An Historic Romance, Vol. 2 of 3 by Anonymous

He thought it was justice to reduce everybody to his own level, and happiness for them to remain there!
— from The inner house by Walter Besant

This is the explanation which mere common sense would give of the origin of inflexions in language, and further research, had we time to examine the history of language more elaborately, would show that it was fundamentally the right explanation.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

Nor will any one who, without prejudice, examines the history of legislation upon the subject of railroads, deny that legislators have been controlled in their acts by the desire, and from the prospect of receiving personal pecuniary benefit by the passage of acts granting special favors to railroad companies.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Under no pretext, will you permit any one to enter the house or leave it.
— from The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Everybody can see that we love each other, and those who think that we do not enjoy the happiness of lovers are precisely the only persons we have to fear.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to Venice by Giacomo Casanova

He would have attacked, in England, the House of Lords instead of Oxford, and had an eye for the intellectuals who are beginning to sway the mighty power of the labor unions.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

I have a force sufficient to leave enough to hold our lines (all that is necessary of them), and move out with plenty to whip his whole army.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman