But when she again saw that her eldest brother had been advanced to a post on the frontier, she was just deploring that, deprived of the intercourse of the relatives of her mother's family, how doubly lonely she would feel; when, after the lapse of a few days, some one of the household brought the unexpected announcement that "our lady, your sister, has, with the young gentleman, the young lady and her whole household, entered the capital and have dismounted from their vehicles outside the main entrance."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

'Tis true I am paid for doing it; but so are you, Sir: and I am sorry to say it, paid better than I am, for doing something not so necessary.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Atque illud superius sic fere definiri solet: decorum id esse, quod consentaneum sit hominis excellentiae in eo, in quo natura eius a reliquis animantibus differat.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He waited, with his ears on the alert for distant sounds, and he shivered when the wind blew against the roof and the walls.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And as far as the ship yielded to the rowers, twice as far did she leap back, and the oar, were bent like curved bows as the heroes used their strength. (ll. 593-610) Then a vaulted billow rushed upon them, and the ship like a cylinder ran on the furious wave plunging through the hollow sea.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Such a tale hath Heinsius of an impotent and slack scholar, a mere student, and a friend of his, that seeing by chance a fine damsel sing and dance, would needs marry her, the match was soon made, for he was young and rich, genis gratus, corpore glabellus, arte multiscius, et fortuna opulentus , like that Apollo in [6062] Apuleius.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She gained good Mrs. Alderney's heart in that way, who was rather the Queen of British Boulogne and gave the most dinners and balls of all the residents there, by weeping when Master Alderney came from Dr. Swishtail's academy to pass his holidays with his mother.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The advent of a guest was in itself far from disconcerting; she had not yet divested herself of a young faith that each new acquaintance would exert some momentous influence on her life.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“But there are no tusser now-a-days?” inquired I. With a mysterious look the old lady took a pinch of snuff, and started off talking again, to the great delight of the small urchin; and so fast did she talk, [231] that it was only by extraordinary attention, and stopping her now and then for an explanation of her antique dialect, that I succeeded in mastering the story.
— from The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district. by Frederick Metcalfe

She saw again that frank, disarming smile.
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

"Folks come down from de noth sometimes and mistook de slave for de owner or de owner for de slave.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Here, in the bosom of savage tribes, and exposed to every danger of field and flood, supported only by his hopes, and by the presence of a stout companion that hardships or danger could not easily subdue, the father diligently sought his child.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

From the report of the meeting, in London, of the Executive Committee of the National Farmers' Union:— "Farmers had hundreds of acres of grass which they were willing to turn into meat, but were prevented from doing so."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various

L'article des domestiques renferme une assez forte difficulté, sur laquelle je dois vous consulter.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

Later on, as she went indoors to prepare for dinner, she encountered Richard; he had just driven up to the door in his dog-cart, and Brand and Gelert were with him.
— from Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey