The officer came nearer and suddenly his face flushed crimson.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

His eldest son, Andronicus, the regent of Constantinople, was repeatedly urged to exhaust every resource; and even by stripping the churches, to extricate his father from captivity and disgrace.
— 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

For the man who is a hundred furlongs from Canopus, and the man who is only one, are both equally not in Canopus; and so too, he who commits a greater sin, and he who commits a less, are both equally not in the right path.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He then excused himself from further conversation for want of time; but promised that when we should meet again, he hoped to have a sufficient opportunity to dwell on these subjects at large.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

23 ASARUM, the Herb foalbit, foalfoot, coltsfoot, wild spikenard ASCALONICA CEPA, “scallion,” young onion Asparagus, ASPARAGUS, p. 188 , ℞ 72 , —— and figpecker, ℞ 132 , —— custard pie, ℞ 133 ASSATURA, a roast, also the process of roasting. ℞ 266-270 ASSUS, roast ASTACUS, a crab or lobster Athenaeus, writer, pp. 3 , seq. —— on Apicius, p.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

From tent to tent she spreads her flame; For custom conquers fear and shame.")
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

These, however, far from concealing it, or rendering it unrecognizable, rather bring it out by contrast and make it shine forth so much the brighter.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

“I will not despoil him of his weapons,” said the Knight of Ivanhoe, “nor condemn his corpse to shame—he hath fought for Christendom—God's arm, no human hand, hath this day struck him down.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The following morning, with the banker’s usual punctuality, the eighty thousand francs were placed in the young man’s hands, as he was on the point of starting, after having left two hundred francs for Caderousse.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

His four fellow committeemen were sweating over the books, but all looked up anxiously as Scattergood appeared.
— from Scattergood Baines by Clarence Budington Kelland

She had found a congenial spirit in Mrs. [179] Negus, and ever since the day Mr. Huntington had come to French Cross and besought the interest of the ladies there in his former friend, Chelda had found him more difficult to manage, more unreliable and provoking.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

About two o'clock in the afternoon, Tom carefully reconnoitered a spot where great blocks of stone had fallen from cliffs above to a ledge below lying loosely there and making small caverns.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

She was panting but exultant, and watched his face for commendation as she gave him the receipt, as a probationary imp might watch the face of the Prince of Darkness on bringing in his first human soul.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

At that it suddenly struck him that he was twenty-nine years of age; that he had laughed a great deal that evening; that he had laughed and laughed over things not in the least humorous, like an excited schoolboy making his first formal call; that he had shaken hands with Miss Briscoe when he left her, as if he should never see her again; that he had taken Miss Sherwood's hand twice in one very temporary parting; that he had shaken the judge's hand five times, and William's four! “Idiot!”
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

Her hair was very beautiful, long and silken, its nut-brown tint contrasting exquisitely with the dazzling whiteness of her fine fresh complexion.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various