“Come, let him feel at home first,” Pyotr Demyanitch commanded.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They blame him for pulling down cathedrals, and so forth, as if he were a seditious rioting demagogue: precisely the reverse is seen to be the fact, in regard to cathedrals and the rest of it, if we examine!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

[826] That the eyes are upturned during sleep is, as I hear from Professor Donders, certain.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

[326] Hercules, and I know not how many besides of old, were deified; went this way to heaven, that were indeed bloody butchers, wicked destroyers, and troublers of the world, prodigious monsters, hell-hounds, feral plagues, devourers, common executioners of human kind, as Lactantius truly proves, and Cyprian to Donat, such as were desperate in wars, and precipitately made away themselves, (like those Celts in Damascen, with ridiculous valour, ut dedecorosum putarent muro ruenti se subducere , a disgrace to run away for a rotten wall, now ready to fall on their heads,) such as will not rush on a sword's point, or seek to shun a cannon's shot, are base cowards, and no valiant men.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The beautiful Letitia Ramolina was married to Charles de Bonaparte the same year that her friend Panonia de Comnene became the wife of M. de Permont, a high French official in Ajaccio.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The sun, which burns from copper into brass, Melts these at noon, and makes the boys unfold Their knitted mufflers; full as they can hold, Fat pockets dribble chestnuts as they pass.
— from Nets to Catch the Wind by Elinor Wylie

He retired to the estate of his friend, Prince de Chimay, and would have given up music but for the latter's request to write a Mass for his chapel.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

"You should have seen his face, poor dear!" cried Pink.
— from Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

[45] We have followed Puvis de Chavannes in his decoration of the Museum of Amiens, from the beginning to the end of his artistic career, without regard to chronological order, because of the interest which he himself took in this extensive work, which was, one might say, his constant preoccupation.
— from Puvis de Chavannes by François Crastre

It was on Monday that Major Forsyth began his return trip, and as the supplies in store were few and the long-expected recruits were needed for the erection of the camp buildings, Colonel Leavenworth set out with him for Prairie du Chien.
— from Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858 by Marcus Lee Hansen

While Roy lives in New York, and Chub hails from Pittsburg, Dick claims the distinction of living nowhere in particular.
— from Captain Chub by Ralph Henry Barbour

Having full power delegated; complete control.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth