In 1825 he was present at a breakfast given at the Rocher de Cancale, by Frederic Marest in celebration of his entrance to the law office of Desroches; he was also at the orgy which followed at the home of Florine.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I offered to go away; for I believe he wanted me to ask to stay in my place, for all this his great wrath: and he said, Stay here!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

[454] was dispossessed of the government of Hindustan, to which Lakwa was nominated, [31] and Nana was compelled to surrender all the fortresses and towns he held in Mewar.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Back to that saint the envoys came, Whose glory shone like burning flame, And told him in their faithful speech The answer that they bore from each: “Submissive to thy word, O Seer, The holy men are gathering here.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Hidden below, he looked up and saw her fair face in the moonlight, framed in the blossoming creepers that grew round her window, and as he looked and listened, he felt as though he had been carried away in a dream, and set down by some magician in that beautiful and enchanted garden.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[869] I thought to Hell, etc. : Virgil, holding on to Lucifer’s hairy sides, descends the dark and narrow space between him and the ice as far as to his middle, which marks the centre of the earth.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For awhile they hoped that they could make twins out of these infants, but, as the children grew older, the impracticability of such a thought—or ambition—became clear to them, and they reluctantly abandoned the project.
— from Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon

Valuable property was hurriedly concealed, and persons who had the slightest reason to think themselves objects of suspicion were carefully hidden, some even going so far as to have themselves nailed up within the walls of their houses!
— from When a Cobbler Ruled the King by Augusta Huiell Seaman

“Seignior,” said I, in Portuguese, “do you not know me?” At which he spoke not a word, but giving his musket to the man that was with him, threw his arms abroad, saying something in Spanish that I did not perfectly hear, came forward and embraced me, telling me he was inexcusable not to know that face again that he had once seen, as of an angel from heaven sent to save his life; he said abundance of very handsome things, as a well-bred Spaniard always knows how, and then, beckoning to the person that attended him, bade him go and call out his comrades.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Every hypothesis must have its Begründung , but there can be Bestätigung only in so far as the hypothesis contains elements which are accessible to actual processes of verification.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

Should you feel afraid to have him look at you?
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

They tried to make me understand that Mr. George N., whom they knew I was looking for, as they had heard him speaking of me and they saw my photograph, and they were waiting notification of my coming, and that they were struck by ecstasy at my sudden appearance, he was at breakfast and that he would soon be back so I had better step into his office and rest myself while waiting for him.
— from Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden

Warned by this adventure that Parliament soldiers were quartered for the night in Old Beech, and by the mention of Cuthbert’s name, and the anecdote connected with it, that he had a friend among the hostile party, who would, as far as possible, protect his interests, Juxon instantly resolved to pass round by another road, and put up at a detached farm-house a quarter of a mile to the north of the village, where he could gain more accurate information of their doings, and judge how to act in the morning.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

As it was he came forward and took her by the shoulders, with a look of sudden anger and concern.
— from Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem

Shortly afterwards Umreth in the Kaira district suffered a similar fate at the hands of Kántáji.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell