The former precentor, now of ugly and aged appearance, readily obtained a welcome with the principals of boarding-schools for young ladies.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The following posthumous note of Voltaire's was first added to M. Beuchot's edition of his works issued in 1829; "See the extreme discretion of the author; there has not been up to the present any Pope named Urban X.; he feared to give a bastard to a known Pope.
— from Candide by Voltaire

I entreated her not to fail writing every Wednesday, to be certain that her letters would never be long enough to give me full particulars, not only of all she did, of all she was allowed to do, but also of all her thoughts respecting her release from imprisonment, and the overcoming of all the obstacles which were in the way of our mutual happiness; for I was as much hers as she was mine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If the name were of a different original, yet it would be idle to seek for an etymology founded on later conceptions, and deduced from properties not originally inherent in the personage.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Fort Fisher was situated upon a low, flat peninsula north of Cape Fear River.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I wrote to him in the fullest persuasion, not only that this pregnancy could not relate to him, but that it was feigned, and the whole a machination of his enemies and mine.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let us do all we can to make up for past neglect of the little-known, half-appreciated, unheralded mothers who have had so little credit in the past, and are so seldom mentioned among the world's achievers, by openly, and especially in our hearts, paying our own mothers every tribute of honor, respect, devotion, and gratitude that love and a sense of duty can suggest.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Macario era muy feo; pero, no obstante, se había casado con una muchacha muy guapa.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

No sooner did the fine promissory note of the discharge of its tompion reach his ear, than he cried out, with the authority of a field-officer at least: "Decant it.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

He was eager to prevent the Terror from being prosecuted for poaching not only because the scandal would annoy her deeply but also because she could so ill afford the expense of the case.
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

For Pontianus not only 150 did not leave Rufinus' daughter as his heir—he had discovered her evil character—but he did not even make her a respectable legacy.
— from The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Apuleius

This was a period of great excitement and prosperity with the Northmen, who, having at last settled themselves in this fertile province, not only placed their dukes on an equality with any of the powers then existing in France, but by their conquest of England raised their chief to an importance and a rank superior to that of any other potentate in Europe except the German emperors of that day, with whose people they were, in fact, both by race and policy, more closely allied than they were with those among whom they had settled.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

These councils decide the amount of fine necessary to atone for murder, theft, and the few crimes known to the native code; a fine, the chief's reprimand, and rarely flogging, probably not of native origin, are the only punishments; and the criminal seldom attempts to escape.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

In the first place no one has seen him, as far as we know, so there's no telling what sort of a chap he is.
— from Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor Appleton

That Paris which emigrates by turns, according to the season, to Monte Carlo for the ‘Tir aux Pigeons’, to Deauville for the race week, to Aix-les-Bains for the baccarat season; that Paris which has its own customs, its own language, its own history, even its own cosmopolitanism, for it exercises over certain minds, throughout Europe, so despotic a rule that Cibo, for example, and his friend Pietrapertoso never opened a French journal that was not Parisian.
— from Cosmopolis — Complete by Paul Bourget

In the month of August, 1863, at Fort Scott, Kansas, Henry brought me the first published news of the Lawrence massacre.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

The little mimic runs up and down the gamut in the most riotous fashion, parodying not only the loud, clear whistle of the blackbird, but the wholly differing soft, sweet notes of the willow-wren.
— from Poachers and Poaching by Watson, John, F.L.S.