This caused the others to repent of their determination, when they saw the wealth which these men had obtained, but it embittered their hatred of Marcius, whom they regarded as gaining glory for himself at the expense of the people.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

“Oh, yes,” returned the young man, smiling; “on the contrary, I have one, but I expected the count would be tempted by one of the brilliant proposals made him, yet as he has not replied to any of them, I will venture to offer him a suite of apartments in a charming hotel, in the Pompadour style, that my sister has inhabited for a year, in the Rue Meslay.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I didn't take the helmet off, but I eased open one of the windows, and, after a bit of a pant, went on out of the water.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was finally resolved, without a dissentient voice, that Mr. Aislabie had encouraged and promoted the destructive execution of the South-Sea scheme with a view to his own exorbitant profit, and had combined with the directors in their pernicious practices, to the ruin of the public trade and credit of the kingdom: that he should for his offences be ignominiously expelled from the House of Commons, and committed a close prisoner to the Tower of London; that he should be restrained from going out of the kingdom for a whole year, or till the end of the next session of Parliament; and that he should make out a correct account of all his estate, in order that it might be applied to the relief of those who had suffered by his mal-practices.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The original coat of the House of Berkeley in England (Barclay in Scotland) appears to have been: "Gules, a chevron or" (or "argent").
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“Those pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin to one hundred of brass is exceeded.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But all so blind in rage that unawares He burst his lance against a forest bough, Dishorsed himself, and rose again, and fled Far, till the castle of a King, the hall Of Pellam, lichen-bearded, grayly draped With streaming grass, appeared, low-built but strong; The ruinous donjon as a knoll of moss, The battlement overtopt with ivytods, A home of bats, in every tower an owl.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

A handbreadth of basis is enough for me, if it be actually basis and ground!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What the learned world expected from me it has obtained; but it expects much more from you, my dear son.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

—With the flood-tide arrived all the well appointed and imposing little fleet, and with them the cutter and sampan with two out of the three men belonging to the boat of which they had been in chase; the third having been speared by Seboo, on showing a strong inclination to run a-muck in his own boat, i. e. to [ 267 ] sell his life as dearly as he could.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Today [Pg 123] it "hangs only by its eyelids" to our pharmacopœia.
— from Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

He became a junior clerk in a house of business in East-cheap, where he remained for three years, and might have remained for the term of his natural life, had he not been obliged to resign his situation on account of ill-health.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

It all seemed so clear to him now; the inevitability of it all; and his own blindness in escaping the meaning of it.
— from The Wooden Horse by Hugh Walpole

I. He who offends the public will And thus excites the populace With a vindictive wish to kill And sink his name in deep disgrace, Is hung or burned in effigy;
— from The Cross and Crown by T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis

As a matter of fact it had only begun its evening's story.
— from The Furnace of Gold by Philip Verrill Mighels

If our Detective Police had only been in existence!
— from The Grey Woman and other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In the last letter I received from him, which was written the day before he set out from Mannheim, he said that he had great hopes of being in England before the end of this year.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones