You hear Men every Day in Conversation profess, that all the Honour, Power, and Riches which they propose to themselves, cannot give Satisfaction enough to reward them for half the Anxiety they undergo in the Pursuit, or Possession of them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And thus the old lecher, suspended between his servant and his mistress, enjoyed himself just as if he were in a swing.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

When Alcmæon returned from his expedition against the Thebans he determined to fulfil the last injunction of his father Amphiaraus, who had desired him to be revenged on his mother Eriphyle for her perfidy in accepting a bribe to betray him.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

“C’est un homme malhonnête et je crois même que c’est un forçat evadé ou quelque chose dans ce genre,” Stepan Trofimovitch muttered again, and again he flushed red and broke off.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He now determined to walk round the fort, to that remote part of it, whence he thought the voices had arisen, that he might examine whether any light could be discerned there, before he ventured to knock at the gate; for this purpose, he entered upon the terrace, where the remains of cannon were yet apparent in the thick walls, but he had not proceeded many paces, when his steps were suddenly arrested by the loud barking of a dog within, and which he fancied to be the same, whose voice had been the means of bringing the travellers thither.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Still, as he felt sure that Newland must have warned Digby against him, he knew that he must exert the utmost circumspection and caution.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

But he was never seen in the dining-room of the “Spa Court,” for whether because he was on an almost meatless diet, or for some other reason, he took his meals exclusively with his own party in his own rooms, and the curiosity of the public had on the whole remarkably little to feed on.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

Have you had much experience of managing theatres, Mr. Marrier?
— from The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure by Arnold Bennett

[p.71] in the result between it and the old listless walk, and how much easier the day's duties come now.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

His Scotch patriotism was one of his most earnest feelings, the Covenanters, at worst, were essentially Scotch, and he introduced a new Cameronian, with all the sterling honesty, the Puritanism, the impracticable ideas of the Covenant, in contact with changed times, and compelled to compromise.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

If she would follow him, as Peponilla [377] had followed her banished husband, amid the ice-hills of Scandia, or on the barren shores of Thule, [378] spring would blossom for him more exquisite than the rose-gardens of Paestum!
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

The Admiral, seeing that they did not know us and thinking harm might ensue, hereupon stood up in the pinnace.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

Dr. F. V. Hayden made extensive use of this report in preparation of his “Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley,” Philadelphia, C. Sherman & Son, 1862.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig