I can see at once that it’s the highest society,” cried Marya Timofyevna, clapping her hands, ecstatically preparing herself to listen to a conversation in French.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Medea falls in love with Jason, and by the power of her enchantments preserves him from the dangers he has to encounter in obtaining it.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

If that had been all, there would have been no cause for quarrel; but not satisfied with holding back, he puckered up his eyebrows, protruded his lip, and looked so ugly that I averted my eyes from the displeasing spectacle.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It was the first compliment he had ever paid her, and she liked it, though she shook her head as if disclaiming it, and answered brightly: "I used to think many years would be burdensome, and just before I came here I felt as if I could not bear another one.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

The tenderness Jerome had expressed for him concurred to confirm this reluctance; and he even persuaded himself that filial affection was the chief cause of his hovering between the castle and monastery.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The architect had told him that it was necessary, and Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house done up.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By this speech he easily persuaded his officers to make an attempt upon Tyre.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it forever.
— from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

Macready liked the suggestion, though he demurred to one or two points in the outline: and before Browning left he eagerly pressed him to "go on with 'Narses.'"
— from Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp

Was she not his equal, perhaps his superior?
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

Following the custom of some of his early predecessors, he preferred the conversation of persons of distinction, and spared no pains to thrust himself into aristocratic company.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Famine, high prices, and depletion of the treasury were the consequences of the war; Lucretia had even pawned her jewels.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

Hence every predicate, however extensive, implies some limitation of the subject.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

And he also spoke of France, deplored her errors, predicted her return to healthy traditions, and gave it to be understood that she remained in spite of everything the most opulent and generous of the Christian nations, the donor whose gold and presents flowed into Rome in a never ending stream.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

I say "quasi," because really there was nothing wonderful about her, except perhaps her beauty and her consummate impudence.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

The woman who had attended her across the lake was certainly none of the wisest, for Dorothea had easily persuaded her to remain in her house during the meeting.
— from A Thorny Path — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers

Ah, do, do—and if that frightens him, egad, perhaps he mayn't come.
— from The Rivals: A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan