“I mean, Mercédès, that you are thus harsh and cruel with me, because you are expecting someone who is thus attired; but perhaps he whom you await is inconstant, or if he is not, the sea is so to him.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Has it nothing to suggest the man with the knife?
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

However, I hauled in nearer the shore that I might talk to them, and I found they ran along the shore by me a good way.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had used to Brevet.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He is not there so much for the sake of the loto, as for the sake of the misunderstandings which are inevitable in the game.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I only regret that he is not to see the first masked ball.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

But he is not the Square he once was.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

During my stay with him, I noticed that Satish secretly spent the greater part of every night in divine meditation, though he was suffering from a serious ailment, and was engaged during the day at his office.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured that he is not to stab me before he leaves it in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event than the falling of the house itself, which is new, and solidly built and founded.—
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

But the genius of Bacon disdained to plod in the trammels of a laborious profession; he felt that it was given him for higher and larger purposes: yet perceiving, at the same time, that the narrowness of his circumstances would prove an insuperable bar to his ambition of becoming, as he once beautifully expressed it, "the servant of posterity," he thus, in 1591, solicited the patronage of his uncle lord Burleigh: "Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful; yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get: Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries, the best state of that province.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

When you write, which I hope will be often, please to say nothing of Russia in your letters but what may be favorable, as the post office here is not too secure.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

A short survey of the items of the Beauchamp heritage is necessary to show how wide-spread was the power which was now placed in the hands of the young Richard Neville.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman

He is not the same man who was head at the time Bastow was up before us, but he was in the force then, and, as one of the constables who came up to take the prisoners down to Reigate, he will have all the facts in his mind.
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Heliopolis is not the same as Osiris, the “ One God ” at Abydos, and can be worshipped side by side with him, without being absorbed by him.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

It gratified his insolent nature to see the pious king of Israel posing before all the people of Ammon as a sneak and a liar, and to hear the laugh of scorn and hatred resounding on every side.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

"And now she hardly speaks to me—makes some trivial excuse to leave me with Charlie when I call; or if he is not there she pleads an engagement.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman

He is not the same man—so quiet and so timid'—and others: 'But can one say how it is possible for him to live there all alone like that?'—and someone replied: 'You could not persuade him to live anywhere else, for that is where he has all his memories, both the good and the bad, and what else is left for him now—that, and the crazy idea he has that his Tommy will one day come home again?'
— from Cape Breton Tales by Harry James Smith

He is said to be a distant relative of the widowed Marquise de Lancy, the owner of the castle, where he made his appearance only a few weeks ago; and although he is a zealous patriot, he is not, they say, a Frenchman, but a Russian.
— from Castle Hohenwald: A Romance by Adolf Streckfuss

"He must have iron nails that scratches a bear,—and the white bear above all.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 10 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron