"That's what I too am thinking of," lady Feng replied, "and that's why I'm asking your views; for were I, on my own hook, to add anything you would again feel hurt for my not have explained things to you."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Therefore, whenever you have a passage of his elegiacs to translate, you should, if possible, learn it by heart.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

His fortune seemed to change somewhat when he entered the third year.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

'The old lady has had 'em these twenty years; and if you were to give 'em five hundred pound, they wouldn't be in it.' 'But do you mean to say, my dear,' remonstrated the Jew, 'that the women can't be got over?' 'Not a bit of it,' replied Sikes.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

This letter, which was begun in delirium and mad jealousy has ended, thanks to you my ineffable beloved, in the happy calm of confidence and the sacred joy of love shared.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

When the service was ended, and the servants were withdrawn, he tenderly kissed Emily, and said, 'I have endeavoured to teach you, from your earliest youth, the duty of self-command; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life, not only as it preserves us in the various and dangerous temptations that call us from rectitude and virtue, but as it limits the indulgences which are termed virtuous, yet which, extended beyond a certain boundary, are vicious, for their consequence is evil.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Does he ever talk to you in the night?"
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

She invited the girl to go upstairs and have a look at "feyther," an invitation which the doctor hastily explained that the young lady was far too ill to accept.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

he exclaimed, to the yawning dog, “seems to me that the heavens is a-fire!
— from Jarwin and Cuffy by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When he entered the theatre you and your wretched friends were afraid—you failed me!
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

The missionary found no one who did not give a high encomium to the young catechumen.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

A hostess with years of social experience could not have been more at her ease than this young girl.
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux

But after some years had elapsed, towards the year 377 B.C. , Athens again began to make maritime conquests, to acquire allies, to receive tribute, to assemble a synod, and to resume her footing of something like an imperial city.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

He enjoyed teasing these youngsters.
— from Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr

Glaucon, if it were not that I have already at least one wife, I would cut your throat for jealousy, for Helena evidently takes to you.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

Frank soon began to amuse himself by tweaking the whiskers of a peevish old monkey, which forthwith sprang to the top of his head, and, holding on by his hair, planted its teeth so firmly in his ear that the young gentleman was fain to cry out for the keeper.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

It was due to his efforts that the Yokosuka dockyard was constructed.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu