Planchet, Grimaud, Bazin, and Mousqueton presented themselves, and received clear, positive, and serious orders from Athos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The whole is well woven together, and contains some hymns of great beauty and many passages of intense dramatic force.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

This being so, it naturally seemed to me quite a great event when one night I, fretful with sleepiness, looked up at her with tearful eyes as she was taking me to bed, and saw her gaze back at me proudly and fondly, and speak of me to a visitor then present with a certain amount of tenderness.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

If I know that all Greeks are men and that Socrates was a man, and I infer that Socrates was a Greek, I cannot be said to know that Socrates was a Greek, because, although my premisses and my conclusion are true, the conclusion does not follow from the premisses.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And what is 't makes this blessed government But a most provident council, who dare freely Inform him the corruption of the times?
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

for i cannot endure even to see them, who after receiving such great benefits at my [Pg 103] hands have given me such a recompense, nor will i enter the city.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The father let these foolish groans go by; A month pass'd—every moment tear or sigh.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Neither Bennigsen nor the Emperor was there, but Chernýshev, the Emperor’s aide-de-camp, received Bolkónski and informed him that the Emperor, accompanied by General Bennigsen and Marquis Paulucci, had gone a second time that day to inspect the fortifications of the Drissa camp, of the suitability of which serious doubts were beginning to be felt.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At my time of life I can’t, set up as a swell, I like my glass of good beer, and my pipe, and my shirt sleeves.
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

The Welsh writer, Gerald Barry, already mentioned (p. 113), who lived at that time and knew him personally, thus describes him:— "He was of huge size, tall and powerfully built, with bony and muscular limbs, wonderfully active and daring, full of courage, and a bold and venturous soldier from his youth.
— from A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

Round the throne stood his guards, black as Moors, [Pg 151] in jackets and trousers of emerald green clasped with orange zircons; half of them bore trumpets of silver, and half of them carried spears with heads of green obsidian as sharp as steel.
— from The Treasure of the Isle of Mist by W. W. (William Woodthorpe) Tarn

The Westport Star wants ten pounds to put in the article threatening the jury, if they don’t bring in a verdict of ‘Not Guilty,’ because, as Mr. Potter says, ‘Word it as carefully as you like, it’s a contempt of Court, and may send me for a year to gaol.’
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

I've come home for good, and I'm not going back any more! PITTI.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

Phil thought now that the village would sink into quiet, but he noticed instead a great bustle, and many people going about.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

There was nothing for me therefore, but to follow the promptings of my own insatiate soul, and travel on alone in the fear of God, hoping that things would get better, and my prospects grow brighter by and by.
— from Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker