I observed that his name was carded upon three state-rooms; and, upon again referring to the list of passengers, I found that he had engaged passage for himself, wife, and two sisters—his own.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The ancient senators he called patricians of the major families ( patres majorum gentium ), and he asked their votes first; and those new senators whom he himself had added, he entitled patricians of minor families.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[57] honestum esse potest, quod iustitia vacat.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“And if there isn’t Mrs. Peter coming up the lane this blessed minute!” exclaimed Mrs. Spencer, bustling her guests through the hall into the parlor, where a deadly chill struck on them as if the air had been strained so long through dark green, closely drawn blinds that it had lost every particle of warmth it had ever possessed.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He could have endured poverty, and when this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he would have gloried in it: but the ingratitude of the Turk, and the loss of his beloved Safie, were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The poppet, however, encouraged perhaps by the relenting tone of this reply, ventured to rebel, and, stealing into the room, made towards Madame Mantalini on tiptoe, blowing her a kiss as he came along.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He entered Paris by the suburb of St. Marceau, [Pg 106] and fancied that he was in the dirtiest village of Westphalia.
— from Candide by Voltaire

The shock of the events of the last night had upset him temporarily, but his equable poise soon swung back to the normal.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Under the civilizing influence of Krag-Jorgensen rifles and the moral uplift of high explosive projectiles, what our soldiers used to call, with questionable piety, “the fear of God,” was finally put into the hearts of the Filipinos, after much carnage by wholesale in battle formation and later by retail in a species of guerrilla warfare as irritating as it was obstinate.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Louis XI.‘s grave face contracted; but all that was visible of his emotion passed away like a flash of lightning.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Note the strong large hands which hold the Child in his every picture.
— from A Wanderer in Venice by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Anna was Lizzy Wood, her earliest playmate and friend.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

He might not have been as pleased to know that his extraordinary performance had solved a difficulty, effaced his other graces, and enabled them to place him on the moral pedestal of a mere musician, to whom these eccentricities were allowable and privileged.
— from A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

[190] Her smiling eyes had ever persuaded him; and when tears gathered in them they were irresistible and swept away judgment.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

Thackeray, William M. , copy of Vanity Fair presented by, to Henry Reed, 19 ; sketch for illustration of Vanity Fair , 48 , 49 ; Vanity Fair , in parts, 78 , 251 , 252 ; sentence written in his copy of Cowper’s The Task , 347 ; copy of Henry Esmond , presented by, to Charlotte Brontë, 347 ; mentioned, 250 , 253 .
— from The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton

From her extraordinary powers of second-sight, supernatural gifts were attributed by ignorant persons, and to her own great distress, to Madame de Trafford.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

In his earliest Parliament, that of 1461, he renewed the statutes against giving of liveries, and though this enactment proved as fruitless as its predecessors to reduce the households of the baronage it marked Edward's resolve to adhere to the invariable policy of the Crown in striving for their reduction.
— from History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green