I felt my knees begin to tremble.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

As for myself, knowing the whole affair, I was prepared for new scenes, and indeed for sad ones, for I felt that I had obtained over her a power repugnant to her vanity and self-love.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There wasn’t a year that passed that didn’t bring some new human world into the Brotherhood, and many of these had developed from that cultural explosion during the First Millennium known as the Exodus, where small groups of colonists in inadequate ships set out for unannounced goals to homestead new worlds for man.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

He, then, during the following months, kept his army continually hovering in the neighbourhood of the enemy, his superior knowledge of the country enabling him to occupy beforehand all the posts of vantage; and having supplies in abundance on his rear, he never allowed his soldiers to go on foraging expeditions, or get separated, on any pretence, from the camp; but keeping them continually massed together and in close union, he watched for favourable opportunities of time and place; and by this method of proceeding captured and killed a large number of the enemy, who in their contempt of him straggled from their camp in search of plunder.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They talked of the abolition of the censorship, and of phonetic spelling, of the substitution of the Latin characters for the Russian alphabet, of someone’s having been sent into exile the day before, of some scandal, of the advantage of splitting Russia into nationalities united in a free federation, of the abolition of the army and the navy, of the restoration of Poland as far as the Dnieper, of the peasant reforms, and of the manifestoes, of the abolition of the hereditary principle, of the family, of children, and of priests, of women’s rights, of Kraevsky’s house, for which no one ever seemed able to forgive Mr. Kraevsky, and so on, and so on.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"This, sirs," continued Dorothea, "is my story; it only remains to tell you that of all the attendants I took with me from my kingdom I have none left except this well-bearded squire, for all were drowned in a great tempest we encountered when in sight of port; and he and I came to land on a couple of planks as if by a miracle; and indeed the whole course of my life is a miracle and a mystery as you may have observed; and if I have been over minute in any respect or not as precise as I ought, let it be accounted for by what the licentiate said at the beginning of my tale, that constant and excessive troubles deprive the sufferers of their memory."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[My late illustrious friend, Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld , who has devoted much time and labour to the study of Marco Polo (see his Periplus , Stockholm, 1897), and published a facsimile edition of one of the French MSS. kept in the Stockholm Royal Library (see vol.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

—Coton à repriser D.M.C is used for most kinds of darning.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Well!’ Hearing this mention of their old friend’s name, the four Miss Kenwigses gathered round Nicholas, open eyed and mouthed, to hear more.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For Mohammed knew too well how little qualified he was for legislative work to undertake it unless absolutely necessary.
— from Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by C. (Christiaan) Snouck Hurgronje

"I think father must know it first," she said.
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

He carefully conceals his knowledge from the persons most concerned; obviously, that he and his father may keep the market to themselves.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

I took from my knapsack whatever articles I could in a hurry, and, thrusting them into my pockets, I fought on foot until a hussar gave me his horse.
— from Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church

I remember clearly that, as I stood in the street before our house fumbling for my keys, Big Ben on the Parliament Buildings struck the hour of seven.
— from The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers

These passages are taken from Mr. Kipling's story called "The Captive."
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Shortly after Sir Henry Wilson, happening to pass in his car, also joined the party; and not many moments afterwards there arrived, again entirely without previous arrangement, Clemenceau and his Finance Minister Klotz.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

Worse, he might forbid Harry to send for Mr. Keene.
— from Harry Harding's Year of Promise by Alfred Raymond

Herr Muhlingk , Frau Muhlingk , Kurt and Leonore are drinking coffee in the drawing-room.
— from Honor: A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann