Lovelace's fault was great; but as she did love him a little, she could have found pardon in her heart for a crime, of which the cause was love.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Master Constable, let these men be bound, and brought to Leonato’s: I will go before and show him their examination.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If they had been, I would have swam back—I would have gone back and shouted alongside—I would have begged them to take me on board. .
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set out to destroy the boxes in these places.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

It was impossible to go to his great-niece Glasha, whom he hardly knew, with these creatures; he did not want to go back and shut them up, and, indeed, he could not shut them up, because the gate was no use.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When she sat or stood in the midst of a circle and began to invent wonderful things, her green eyes grew big and shining, her cheeks flushed, and, without knowing that she was doing it, she began to act and made what she told lovely or alarming by the raising or dropping of her voice, the bend and sway of her slim body, and the dramatic movement of her hands.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Now, to take an interest into consideration and represent it means to intend, as far as possible, to secure the particular good which that particular interest looks to, and never, whatever measures may be adopted, to cease to look back on the elementary impulse as upon something which ought, if possible, to have been satisfied, and which we should still go back and satisfy now, if circumstances and the claims of rival interests permitted.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

So Garotte became a sort of theocracy, with Judge Rablay as ruler.
— from Eatin' Crow; and The Best Man In Garotte by Frank Harris

Great Britain: arms savages below the Great Lakes, 110 ; emigration to the United States, 408 .
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

Mäzli chattered gaily by Apollonie's side, and as soon as she reached home, wanted to tell her mother what had happened.
— from Maezli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys by Johanna Spyri

One or two wanted to go back and “stoush” that landlord, and the driver stopped the coach cheerfully at their request; but they said they'd come across him again and allowed themselves to be persuaded out of it.
— from Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson

The strange and fearful scenes through which he had passed the night before were forgotten, or at least not thought of; the sorrows that were past gave but a sort of shadowy relief to the bright aspect of the present; difficulties, impediments, dangers, were unheeded or unseen.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It would seem that Agde was the oldest possession of the Ibn Rashids, and that on their taking Haïl the Ibn Alis marched against them, when they retreated to their fortress, and there gave battle and such a defeat to the people of Kefar that it secured to the Ibn Rashids supreme power ever after.
— from A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 2 [of 2] A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign." by Blunt, Anne, Lady

Colonel Humphreys, who was long at Mount Vernon arranging the General's papers, wrote descriptive of the return at the close of the Revolution: "When that foul stain of manhood, slavery, flowed, Through Afric's sons transmitted in the blood; Hereditary slaves his kindness shar'd, For manumission by degrees prepared: Return'd from war, I saw them round him press And all their speechless glee by artless signs express."
— from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities by Paul Leland Haworth

In a garden are all moods, from that given by a school of white Pinks, to the masterly exactitude of the Red-Hot Poker, or the limpid and very virginal appearance of Lavender.
— from The Charm of Gardens by Dion Clayton Calthrop

The examination over, they were allowed to proceed, but were again halted when they had gone but a short distance.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison