This craving drove him to draw near to the inn, still undecided whether to go in or not, and as he was hesitating there came out two persons who at once recognised him, and said one to the other: "Senor licentiate, is not he on the horse there Sancho Panza who, our adventurer's housekeeper told us, went off with her master as esquire?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There!’ said she, throwing me her purse, and speaking very fast—‘Never mind getting it out now, but take the purse and give them what you like; I would go with you, but I want to finish this volume.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

All he saw about him merged into a general impression of naked, bleeding human bodies that seemed to fill the whole of the low tent, as a few weeks previously, on that hot August day, such bodies had filled the dirty pond beside the Smolénsk road.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This craving drove him to draw near to the inn, still undecided whether to go in or not, and as he was hesitating there came out two persons who at once recognised him, and said one to the other: “Senor licentiate, is not he on the horse there Sancho Panza who, our adventurer’s housekeeper told us, went off with her master as esquire?”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For if a man arouses great expectations in us when telling a story, and at the end we see its falsehood immediately, it displeases us; e.g. the story of the people whose hair in consequence of great grief turned gray in one night.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

She was very ready with her charity, like her brother Alexey, who gave away his money freely, without considering whether it was necessary to give it or not.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“My father, in his shirt sleeves, his silk hat on his head, would await the completion of the operation, while my mother, putting on her spectacles, and taking off her gloves in order not to spoil them, would make haste.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He was in doubt whether to go in or not, or whether to communicate with Alexey Alexandrovitch.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But never mind, if you think it’s best to tell your uncle Harvey—” “Shucks, and stay fooling around here when we could all be having good times in England whilst we was waiting to find out whether Mary Jane’s got it or not?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Tissaphernes immediately after this, in the same winter, proceeded along shore to Caunus, desiring to bring the Peloponnesian fleet back to Miletus, and to supply them with pay, making a fresh convention upon such terms as he could get, in order not to bring matters to an absolute breach between them.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

We gave in our names last night.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

If only, only, it had been Gervase instead of Ned—or rather, if the positions of the two men could be reversed!
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

We got into our nightshirts, jumped into bed, posted a sentinel, and let the Lord look after us.
— from The Red Battle Flyer by Richthofen, Manfred, Freiherr von

But it were much to be wished, for the general interests of navigation, that the actual settings of the different currents which are known to take place in various parts of the world were examined more frequently and accurately than hitherto appears to have been done.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

"I repeat, the gold is of no use to me."
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

The conclusion of the proceedings will be given in our next.] {343} OBSERVATIONS UPON
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

The solution will be given in our next.
— from Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Certainly his theories do not hold good either in Australasia or America where gold is often, nay, more usually, found at, or near, either present or past regions of volcanic action.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

Nature has given you personal loveliness, but the gift is of no more use to you than a score of music in the hands of an ignorant who cannot read it, than a sculptor’s chisel in the fingers of a child.
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida