There are few people who believe it.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The funeral pile was about three and a half feet high.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

—From his first parley with the centinel, to his leaving the city of Strasburg, after pulling off his crimson-sattin pair of breeches, is the Protasis or first entrance—where the characters of the Personae Dramatis are just touched in, and the subject slightly begun.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

y ¡juro a Dios rightly, and I swear to God que a no ser porque mi primo, if it hadn’t been that my cousin el tesorero real, the royal treasurer quiso fiarme, Pascual, was willing to bail me out, Pascual, pierdo cuanto más estimo!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

223.—Gratitude is as the good faith of merchants: it holds commerce together; and we do not pay because it is just to pay debts, but because we shall thereby more easily find people who will lend.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

In the following passage, when 'impressions' pass through a common 'centre of communication' in succession (much as people might pass into a theatre through a turnstile) consciousness, non-existent until then, is supposed to result: "Separate impressions are received by the senses—by different parts of the body.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Mr. Fogg patiently waited without a word.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

This letter was concluded by an act of confidence which would have had an effect upon any other man; for, in desiring Grimm to weigh my reasons and afterwards to give me his opinion, I informed him that, let this be what it would, I should act accordingly, and such was my intention had he even thought I ought to set off; for M. d’Epinay having appointed himself the conductor of his wife, my going with them would then have had a different appearance; whereas it was I who, in the first place, was asked to take upon me that employment, and he was out of the question until after my refusal.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Meanwhile bear my grief-stricken soul to those wooded hills, to those green meadows stretched far and wide along the blue Niemen; to those fields painted with various [pg 2] grain, gilded with wheat, silvered with rye; where grows the amber mustard, the buckwheat white as snow, where the clover glows with a maiden's blush, where all is girdled as with a ribbon by a strip of green turf on which here and there rest quiet pear-trees.
— 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

“It was all lies that I told you this evening—to glorify myself, to make it splendid, from pure wantonness—all, all, every word, oh, I am a wretch, I am a wretch!”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

THE FIRST EMIGRANTS You remember all the talk and excitement in Massachusetts at this time, when so much was being told re [17] garding the beauties of the Ohio country, and you know how eager I was to set out with that first party which left Danvers under the leadership of Major Haffield White on the first day of December, in the year 1787.
— from Benjamin of Ohio: A Story of the Settlement of Marietta by James Otis

It was true that there was treachery afoot, for Pocahontas soon came to Smith's quarters in the woods and told him that her father Powhatan was collecting all of his men to make an assault upon his force, unless the Indians who would bring in the supper should themselves be able to kill him.
— from Famous Indian Chiefs Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

But the great majority of the French people, who had suffered ecclesiastical oppression so long, regarded these utterances as the wriggling of a fish on the hook, and enjoyed the sport all the better.
— from Fiat Money Inflation in France: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended by Andrew Dickson White

It is, therefore, not unlikely, that, in the order in which the energies of nature have unfolded themselves, fire preceded water, and was its nec
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

These are supposed sufficient to frighten away three times the number of robbers, whose daring, however, has got to such a height, that no diligence now arrives from Puebla without being robbed.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

I could not prevail upon Mrs Reichardt to embark in my craft, the fate of my first passenger which she had witnessed from the shore, had deterred her from attempting a voyage under such unpromising circumstances.
— from The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat

24:11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

His first product was an ingenious battery-operated clock.
— from Printing Telegraphy... A New Era Begins by Edward E. Kleinschmidt

If the valet had ventured near the five persons whom he had been apostrophizing from a distance, and if he had been possessed of some little refinement of observation, he could hardly have failed to remark that the bride and bridegroom of the morrow, and their companions on either side, were all, in a greater or less degree, under the influence of some secret restraint, which affected their conversation, their gestures, and even the expression of their faces.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

'Tis more precious food, Purchased with the very blood Of two friends, by luck forsaken.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra