Four days after, Balbi wrote that the dean had received him with great kindness, that he had given him a room in the deanery, that he had dressed him as an abbe, that he had introduced him to the Prince-Bishop of Armstadt, and that he had received assurances of his safety from the civil magistrates.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We shall come across him again repeatedly in the course of [pg 32] these reminiscences, and for the present these few words must suffice.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Yet neither Ursula nor Gudrun would have any real intimacy with the Phillips boys.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Omisso vano incepto, hiematurus Antiochiae redit in Syriam aerumnosam, perpessus et ulcerum sed et atrocia, diuque deflenda.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The thought flashed upon me so suddenly, that I grew hot and red in the face, and trembled in every limb with excitement.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

As frequent inflammation of the eyes must be injurious to any animal, and as eyes are certainly not necessary to animals having subterranean habits, a reduction in their size, with the adhesion of the eyelids and growth of fur over them, might in such case be an advantage; and if so, natural selection would aid the effects of disuse.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And is this confined to the sight only, or does it extend to the hearing also, relating in fact to what we term poetry?
— from The Republic by Plato

Then Agricola, fearing from the superior number of the enemy lest he should be obliged to fight as well on his flanks as in front, extended his ranks; and although this rendered his line of battle less firm, and several of his officers advised him to bring up the legions, yet, filled with hope, and resolute in danger, he dismissed his horse and took his station on foot before the colors.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

As the dialogue was of Erasmus, my father soon came to himself, and read it over and over again with great application, studying every word and every syllable 114 of it thro’ and thro’ in its most strict and literal interpretation—he could still make nothing of it, that way.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Frank was never able to understand one fellow despising another because the other was popular, for it was natural for him to wish everybody good luck and success, and he always rejoiced in the success of any fellow he knew, providing, of course, that the success was of the right sort.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

She slipped her arm round Isma’s waist, and led her towards one of the long windows which opened out on to the terrace under the pillared portico which ran the whole length of the front of the villa.
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

He had a reputation in town for being peculiar and somewhat visionary; but every one seemed to like him, and at last one morning, when we happened to be on our way to the wharves, we stopped at the door of an old warehouse which we had never seen opened before.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

We were saying, as you will remember, that they were to be lovers of their country, tried by the test of pleasures and pains, and neither in hardships, nor in dangers, nor at any other critical moment were to lose their patriotism—he was to be rejected who failed, but he who always came forth pure, like gold tried in the refiner's fire, was to be made a ruler, and to receive honours and rewards in life and after death.
— from The Republic by Plato

Christophe snatched the book from his hands and read: " … I have nothing in the world to bid me toil: there is nothing that is not mine: and yet I cease not from my labor.
— from Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Romain Rolland

In the twenties and forties of the nineteenth century investigations, unprejudiced and independent of theology, had already reached in the case of some of their representatives, such as Gfrörer, Lützelberger, Ghillany, Nork, and others, the point which is to-day again represented by the most advanced learning.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

He had never suspected it before; but now the thought began to grow upon him, that he was a great man, who might have gained honor and renown if his wife had not deprived him of the opportunity.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

He is very sorry to find you are ill, and wishes me to tell you that you have mistaken Him in thinking he meant to express any desire of His as to your Going, or Staying, which he always meant to Leave to your own Decision, but only to offer you his opinion, and never proposes to take upon Him to give you any further Advice with regard to the place of Your residence, which you have all right independent of any thing with respect to Him to determine as You please for Yourself.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of