After I had very clumsily made several puppets, and had provided them with a scanty wardrobe made from cuttings of material purloined from my sisters, I started to compose a chivalric drama, in which I proposed to rehearse my puppets.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Some of them will concern us later, but for the present it is the fundamental character of mnemic phenomena that is in question.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To the lowest angry dimple.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

All the way going and coming I reading and discoursing over some papers of his which he, poor man, having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit, did at the King’s first coming over make proposals of, ordering in a new manner the whole revenue of the kingdom, but, God knows, a most weak thing; however, one paper I keep wherein he do state the main branches of the publick revenue fit to cons
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I am pining for a return to my family and to my home, and as the price of any farther communication on my part—in consideration of the light which I have it in my power to throw upon many very important branches of physical and metaphysical science—I must solicit, through the influence of your honorable body, a pardon for the crime of which I have been guilty in the death of the creditors upon my departure from Rotterdam.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

All were to retain the rank of colonels of cavalry till the last day, February 8, 1884; but meantime each secured places, as follows: Colonel O. M. Poe was lieutenant-colonel of the Engineer Corps United States Army, and was by his own choice assigned to Detroit in charge of the engineering works on the Upper Lakes, which duty was most congenial to him.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A faint cry of mingled pleasure and surprise escaped from the lips of Valentine, who almost instantly said, in a saddened tone, as though some envious cloud darkened the joy which illumined her heart: “Alas, no, Maximilian, this must not be, for many reasons.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The rest of the fearful crowd of marine prodigies have plunged beneath the briny waves and disappeared!
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Dante’s Worm does not resemble the serpent of fable, nor does Milton’s Satan answer to the feathered clown of Miracle Plays.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

“I will tell you, Euthymia, if you will promise not to find fault with me for carrying out my plan as I have made up my mind to do.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

You have said that you wanted me to help you, and if you still feel this way, nothing and no one is going to prevent me from carrying out my part of the agreement.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

In 1643, the four colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven formed a confederation for defence against the Indians and also the Dutch, who had claimed that a portion of what is now the State of Connecticut was included within their jurisdiction.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

Thus, then, it was easy for me, who have access to all the stores of knowledge, to examine the rolls recording the first coming of my people, the rule of Joseph, the great governor, the coming of his relations here and their settlement in the country.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

A French Critic on Milton, pp.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

All other rights belonged to Mr. Strahan, and have been transferred, with the full concurrence of Mr. P. W. Rands, to Mr. John Lane for this volume.
— from Lilliput Lyrics by W. B. (William Brighty ) Rands

From what I have already written, you may form some faint conception of my physical condition at the end of six years' treatment by the best medical aid I could get in the section where I was living.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Hence it was confided to the careful porterage of Dawson, an assiduous and favored courtier of Miss Paterson; and he, having lunched, was fated to leave it behind at Lazarus' Hotel.
— from The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

After the death of her husband, the first care of Madame Peyrade was to have it cast into a bell, under which new form it now serves the church of Ille.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843 by Various

"Thank you, Killigrew, for carrying out my plans," I said.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking