FAUST A few more steps ascend, as far as yonder stone!—
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She’s nice and kind and charming, and I’m very fond of her, but say what you will in her favour and you still have to admit that she’s wicked; you can feel it in her slightest movements.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I like such reckless fellows as you,” she lisped, with a rather halting tongue.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madame Magloire wore a white quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The charge of the city was entrusted to a favourite and younger son, Karna: which disgusted the elder brother, who went to the Deccan to Bidar, where he was well received by an Abyssinian chief, [10] who had there established himself in sovereignty.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But Mr. Wace has, for a young scientific investigator, a particularly lucid and consecutive habit of mind.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For they lie always, those subterranean Eumenides ( fabulous and yet so true ), in the dullest existence of man;—and can dance, brandishing their dusky torches, shaking their serpent-hair.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"And you say that I must not spend any of it without first asking you," said Rollo.
— from Rollo in Paris by Jacob Abbott

And you shall be—by the four archangels, you shall!’
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

For, as you shall see, the rescue of the British Vice-Consul was not the only object that I had in view.
— from Stromboli and the Guns by Francis Henry Gribble

"They have all had to bear some of Mr. Black's losses; and it was a case of either sharing the loss or Mr. Black getting some one else to share it, for, if he had paid them what they were worth, he would have failed, and you see then they as well as Mr. Black would have all been out of work.
— from Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

It is not a particularly pleasant part to play, and there was a time when it appeared very improbable that either of us would be forced, as you say, to stoop to it.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

One was married to Felipe, a younger son of Charles of Anjou, and the other to his friend the Count of Andria.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

We alone, in that familiar and yet so unreal world, were alive.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

said the Highlander, “and what for would you be fighting with our young chief, who is far above your standard, though you were the best smith ever wrought with wind and fire?”
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

Once I am freed, and you shall judge of me.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

Dick Ferral , a young sea dog from Canada, with all a sailor's superstitions, but in spite of all that a royal chum, ready to stand by the friend of his choice through thick and thin.
— from Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the Grampus by Stanley R. Matthews