I longed so for it, Dinah, I longed so to be safe at home.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The art of throwing knives, terrible in hand to hand combat, had at that time already fallen into disuse in Lithuania, and was familiar only to old men; the [pg 148] Warden had tried it often in tavern quarrels, and the Seneschal was expert at it.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I was not disturbed by Mr. Vholes (who took off his gloves to dine), though he sat opposite to me at the small table, for I doubt if, looking up at all, he once removed his eyes from his host's face.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Then I was like others, I had a fortune, family, I dreamed, I looked forward to a future.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Note 139 ( return ) [ This bloody feast is described in Leonine verse in the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, (Script. Ital.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They will not be satisfied until they have hired people to help them be sorry, to whom they may say, ‘My friend is dead; I loved him.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

[139] The battle of Friedland is described in Lord Hutchinson's despatch (Records: Prussia, vol.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

You won't find it dull in Ladysmith when you and I have made our little plot to stick together and work together.
— from A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War by L. T. Meade

It was a roughly circular depression extending from bank to bank, a hundred feet in diameter; it lay just below the ledge of rock that made a low-water ford but which, at high water, was the brink of a falls which had worn a deep hole in the soft river bottom.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

For instance: Do I love you more than you love me, or do you love me more than I love you?
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

Institutions conceived and commenced in the midst of the storms of internal and external war, developed with constancy, have been brought to their climax amidst the noise of the efforts and plots of our mortal enemies, by the adoption of all that the experience of ages and of peoples has demonstrated as fit to guarantee the laws which the nation has judged necessary for its dignity, its liberty, and its honor."
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

For it does, indeed, look as if during the last century all the hobgoblins and all the fairies of Gaul have taken refuge in Britanny.
— from The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

The snow nowhere along this line of travel is over a couple of feet in depth, is light and dry and the “tripping” shoe, so called, is the very best possible for such kind of going.
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell