Finally not even Giton himself could resist a smile, especially when the little girl caught him around the neck and showered innumerable kisses upon him, and he not at all averse to it.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The monasticism of the Buddhist will naturally occur to our minds, as a precursor of the cenobitic life among the Essenes; and Hilgenfeld accordingly has not hesitated to ascribe this characteristic of Essenism directly to Buddhist influences [437] .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now married her.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“There was a man sent from heaven, and his name was John.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

With regard to Stone Court, since Bulstrode wished to retain his hold on the stock, and to have an arrangement by which he himself could, if he chose, resume his favorite recreation of superintendence, Caleb had advised him not to trust to a mere bailiff, but to let the land, stock, and implements yearly, and take a proportionate share of the proceeds.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

When he married Fluffy Hair she had allowed him three thousand a year and had asked him not to bring his wife to see her.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

At the moment of execution—with the halter about his neck, and while Colonel Pyncheon sat on horseback, grimly gazing at the scene Maule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradition, has preserved the very words.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Now to my misfortune a certain petty official, who was serving on an inquest, hired a house near by.
— 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

But though he might not speak to Hetty of his love, he would tell her about his new prospects and see if she would be pleased.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

“Goodness me!” shouted the big boy who sat beside Bill Hicks and his niece.
— from Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson

“But—you are going to say that you don't love him and have never thought of him as a husband,” interrupted the duchess; “I read it in your face,—and it's a very proper thing to say.”
— from Tales of Trail and Town by Bret Harte

* * * He may learn (Mr. Voorhees), however, from copies of over 1,000 letters in the Governor's office, that Gov. St. John has never, in reply to their appeals, failed to warn them of the difficulties that would beset their way here, and has never extended them promise of other assistance than that implied in the equal rights which are guaranteed to every citizen of Kansas.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

But he felt happier afterwards, and went to sleep, and dreamed about him as he Never Was. H2 anchor CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO TREATS OF TODGER’S
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Since early morning her blood had been whirling tempestuously within her, and her nerves were agitated by the presentiment of some great crisis.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Clarence had unfastened the alarum bell from my shutters, and taken down the bar after the curtains had been drawn by the housemaid, and he now opened them.
— from Chantry House by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But her attention had not been taken away from the letter which was lying on the floor.
— from Well, After All-- by Frank Frankfort Moore

"The Lord never puts his children anywhere where they cannot glorify him; and he never sends them where they have not work to do or a lesson to learn.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

"I know nobody round here, and have no desire to form acquaintances."
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden