The rest of his eventful life must be sought in the history of the English Navy which he helped to form, and in his numerous letters, which on some future occasion the present editor hopes to annotate.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If she had ever loved me, then, I should hold her the more sacred; remembering the confidences I had reposed in her, her knowledge of my errant heart, the sacrifice she must have made to be my friend and sister, and the victory she had won.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I said that neither Mr. nor Miss Murdstone had ever liked me, or had ever been kind to me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“And how splendid, how enviable life might have been!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I was about three months gone with a child by him, a circumstances would have added to his tenderness, had he ever left me room to believe it could receive an addition, when the mortal, the unexpected blow of separation fell upon us.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

My companion, being disappointed in her expectations, left me, and I had no other resource than to venture forth, like the owls in the dark, to pick up a precarious and uncomfortable subsistence.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

" "A girl must have proved very troublesome to his peace of mind in his early life," my guru answered causticly.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

She became a writer, and most fortunately for the sake of the little, helpless being dependent upon her care, she succeeded where the many fail," he ended, leaving Mrs. Le Roy's unspoken curiosity on the subject of Mrs. Lynn even greater than before, through his meager explanation.
— from Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Desí dijo: Venderlas-he todas, et con el precio dellas compraré cien vacas, por cada cuatro cabezas una vaca, é haberé simiente é sembraré con los bueyes, et aprovecharme-he de los becerros et de las fembras é de la leche é manteca, é de las mieses habré grant haber, et labraré muy nobles casas, é compraré siervos é siervas, et esto fecho casarme-he con una mujer muy rica, é fermosa, é de grant logar, é empreñarla-he de fijo varon, é nacerá complido de sus miembros, et criarlo-he como á fijo de rey, é castigarlo-he con esta vara, si non quisiere ser bueno é obediente’.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Then all the foresaid things being made ready, have a large clean scowred dish, with large sops of French bread lay the carps upon them, and between them some tench, pearch, pike, and eels, & the stewed oysteres all over the other fish, then the fried flounders & smelts over the oysters, then the balls & lettice stuck with pistaches, the artichocks, skirrets, sparagus, butter prawns, yolks of hard eggs, large mace, fryed smelts, grapes, slic’t lemon, oranges, red beets or pomegranats, broth it with the leer that was made for it, and run it over with beaten butter.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

With a mist before her eyes Lalanté managed to decipher its purport, which was briefly this.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

Mrs. Halford E. Luccock; (Mary W. Luccock) (W) & Robert Luccock (C); 17Oct67; R419987.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

They fell on her ears like music and awakened gratitude and love in her heart.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

My daughter never left her mother; no child has ever lived more chastely, more truly a Christian life than my dear daughter.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac