When one marries, monsieur, it is not in order to parade one's generosity; it is in order to live every day, every hour, every minute, every second beside a man; and if this man is disfigured, as I am, it is a death sentence to marry him!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“to make her entrance more effective,” spiteful people said.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Habebat enim mille et sexcentas piscatorias naves.....
— 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

Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any rate; he was the sort of young man to be generally liked, his agreeableness was of the kind to be oftener found agreeable than some endowments of a higher stamp, for he had easy manners, excellent spirits, a large acquaintance, and a great deal to say; and the reversion of Mansfield Park, and a baronetcy, did no harm to all this.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Into the swinging movement of that antiquated waltz Lanyard fell without a qualm of doubt, all ignorant as he was of his benighted ignorance; and instantly, with the ease and gracious assurance of a dancer born, Cecelia Brooke adapted herself to his step and guidance, with rare pliancy made her every movement exquisitely synchronous with his.
— from The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

It most killed him, but it busted the irons, and we've been 'tending to have 'em mended ever sence.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

His enthusiasm might even seem, in the first instance, to aggravate, instead {235} of removing, his natural faults.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians by James Denney

Loitering on the lawn, he encountered May Everard, still in her riding-habit, surrounded by three or four poodle-dogs.
— from Sir Noel's Heir: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

"He was kindly disposed towards every one, and knew how to make himself useful and entertaining in every circle of society; and it was only against every species of inhumanity and coarseness, against every kind of insolence, injustice, or cruelty, that he ever manifested either scorn or indignation."
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

In another part of it, he had even more emphatically said: "I therefore * *
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

You lub ’er talk better’n any body in de work, en ’member Nelse when you hear ’er moan en sigh.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

It was her bugle I had heard in the course of my pursuit of the animal; and, from the aperture through which I had effected my entrance, she had looked out to see who was the audacious hunter she had previously observed threading a passage, along which her stag itself never appeared without exciting terror in her bosom.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

My secretarial duties, as then outlined to me, would consume about two hours each morning, excepting Sundays.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous