One of the memorable events in the history of the society was a farewell reception given in “City Tavern” on December eleventh, 1782, in honor of Baron Axel Ferson, hero of the Battle of Yorktown.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

I ask nothing of any one; I am from Reims, gentlemen; I own a little field inherited from my uncle, Mahiet Pradon.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

For it would have been impossible for him to hide from Eppie that she was not his own child: even if the most delicate reticence on the point could have been expected from Raveloe gossips in her presence, her own questions about her mother could not have been parried, as she grew up, without that complete shrouding of the past which would have made a painful barrier between their minds.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

“In good faith,” responded Gringoire, “I don’t know either.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

But the happiest regulation in French railway government is—thirty minutes to dinner!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The vast and undulating surface of the brown and purple moor, varied occasionally by some fantastic rocks, gleamed in the shifting light.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Therefore since hee permits Within himself unworthie Powers to reign Over free Reason, God in Judgement just Subjects him from without to violent Lords; Who oft as undeservedly enthrall His outward freedom: Tyrannie must be, Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Therefore since hee permits 90 Within himself unworthie Powers to reign Over free Reason, God in Judgement just Subjects him from without to violent Lords; Who oft as undeservedly enthrall His outward freedom: Tyrannie must be, Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood Praying; for from the mercy-seat above Prevenient grace descending had removed The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh Regenerate grow instead; that sighs now breathed Unutterable; which the Spirit of prayer Inspired, and winged for Heaven with speedier flight Than loudest oratory: Yet their port Not of mean suitors; nor important less Seemed their petition, than when the ancient pair In fables old, less ancient yet than these, Deucalion and chaste Pyrrha, to restore The race of mankind drowned, before the shrine Of Themis stood devout.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Therefore, since he permits Within himself unworthy powers to reign Over free reason, God, in judgement just, Subjects him from without to violent lords; Who oft as undeservedly enthrall His outward freedom: Tyranny must be; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

However, after a serious half hour’s talk with Miss Winthrop and a shorter consultation with Olive, she had gone away again content to leave the fourth ranch girl in wiser hands than her own.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

The first regular game I was entered at was Golf.
— from Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 by Various

Though the vessel was built, the purpose came to naught for reasons given in the text.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

Setting aside every other difficulty arising from the possible absence of water and from the great improbability of finding there an atmosphere of a density and a composition suitable for respiration, gravitation itself would prohibit organic beings adapted for this earth from residing on a minor planet.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

He took them to where all these things were sold; they supplied themselves out of the plunder of the Frenchman, and in less than two hours they might have been taken for regular graduates in their new profession, so deftly did they manage their baskets, and so jauntily carry their bags.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

From their lofty elevation they see the first cloud of smoke if it be day, or the first red glare if at night, and the next instant the alarm is sent over the city on the wings of electricity.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

But the fellow replied gruffly in some unintelligible jargon.
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

To the west, the embers of the campfire made a faint red glow in the moonlight.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

, Rudolf issued a decree that all who tried to bring forward religious grievances in the Hungarian Assembly should be treated as disorderly persons.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice