It remains to look a little more fully at the history of Macbeth after the murder of Duncan.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Now, this no more dishonours you at all Than to take in a town with gentle words, Which else would put you to your fortune and The hazard of much blood.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings who will award to you a large share for securing to them and their descendants a government of law and stability.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

During those storms the holy body, that is to say St. Elmo, appeared to us many times, in light—among other times on an exceedingly dark night, 45 with the brightness of a blazing torch, on the maintop, where he stayed for about two hours or more, to our consolation, for we were weeping.
— 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

The Earl of Falmouth, Muskerry, and Mr. Richard Boyle killed on board the Duke’s ship, the Royall Charles, with one shot: their blood and brains flying in the Duke’s face; and the head of Mr. Boyle striking down the Duke, as some say.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.] SECHARD (Madame David), wife of the preceding, born Eve Chardon in 1804, daughter of a druggist of L'Houmeau (a suburb of Angouleme), and a member of the house of Rubempre; worked first at the house of Madame Prieur, a laundress, for the consideration of fifteen sous a day; manifested great devotion to her brother Lucien, and on marrying David Sechard, in 1821, transferred her devotion to him; having undertaken to manage the printing shop, she competed with Cerizet, Cointet, and Petit-Claud, and almost succeeded in softening Jerome-Nicolas Sechard.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In the end I planted myself between him and the food, and told him of my determination to begin a discipline.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This was no other than the abbe, from whom each of the reconciled friends received at dinner a billet couched in these words:— “I have the honour to lament the infinite chagrin and mortification that compels me to address myself in this manner to a person of your rank and eminence, whom I should do myself the pleasure of waiting upon in person, were I not prevented by the misfortune of my nose, which was last night most cruelly disarranged, by a violent contusion I had the honour to receive, in attempting to compose that unhappy fracas, at the house of Madame la Maquerelle; and what puts the finishing stroke to my mishap, is my being rendered incapable of keeping three or four assignations with ladies of fashion, by whom I have the honour to be particularly esteemed.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Let us unite in doing all we can to make it a real Mothers' Day, by especially honoring our mothers; in the flesh, those of us who are so fortunate as to have our mothers with us; in the spirit, those who are not so fortunate.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Her hair was like her mother's, but more silken in texture, and fell, as the hair of many Russian women does, almost to her feet.
— from The Great White Army by Max Pemberton

Her beauty, her grace, and her high birth, had raised her into fashion, and the homage of men of the first station, while it perhaps injured her reputation as a woman, added to her celebrity as fine lady.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

A few days after their reappearance in old circles, a card of invitation to meet some friends at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Allender was received.
— from Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

One thing, however, he should have remembered: that he was in an ancient and little known part of the world and reposing [186] above a sea famous in fable as the home of many fierce and terrible creatures; while not far away lay the land of the dragon, the simurg and other ferocious monsters.
— from The Master Key An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Two expeditions started simultaneously, the one by land, under Don Gaspar de Partola, the other by sea, consisting of two packets, the San Carlos and San Antonio , and after a year's search found again the harbour of Monterey, alluded to by Viscaino.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

praise be to God for all things," humbly observed Mustapha.
— from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

Besides, there was something familiar about the horrible old man.
— from Thieves' Wit: An Everyday Detective Story by Hulbert Footner

I am far from alleging the heart of Messer Alessandro to be dry tow; but I do repeat it, Padua was a freakish cityful, Ippolita lovely exceedingly, amorous poetry in the air.
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett

I was born to no fortune, and therefore had only my mind and body to devote to knowledge, and the gratitude of posterity will attest, that neither mind nor body have been spared.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson