I resolved to pay a visit to the discontented party who had only recognized the new king on compulsion, and some of whom had not recognized him at all; so I set out with my true friend Campioni and one servant.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

To her mother's regret, and to his own regret, the unfortunate creature had discovered the share which circumstances had induced him to take in placing her under restraint, and had conceived the most intense hatred and distrust of him in consequence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Whenever a force approached them, they were in the habit of retiring to the summits of their mountains, either in a body or separately as each man found it practicable; and thus they escaped, making it difficult for those who attacked them with their forces to come near them.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

After some hours of repose the sleepers were aroused by Athos.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Lothario said, too, that every married man should have some friend who would point out to him any negligence he might be guilty of in his conduct, for it will sometimes happen that owing to the deep affection the husband bears his wife either he does not caution her, or, not to vex her, refrains from telling her to do or not to do certain things, doing or avoiding which may be a matter of honour or reproach to him; and errors of this kind he could easily correct if warned by a friend.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of this veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own room to go to Don Quixote's, another duenna who slept with her observed her, and as all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and sniffing, she followed her so silently that the good Rodriguez never perceived it; and as soon as the duenna saw her enter Don Quixote's room, not to fail in a duenna's invariable practice of tattling, she hurried off that instant to report to the duchess how Dona Rodriguez was closeted with Don Quixote.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In addition to his love of poring over books, he could boast of two habits which constituted two other essential features of his character—namely, a habit of retiring to rest in his clothes (that is to say, in the brown jacket above-mentioned) and a habit of everywhere bearing with him his own peculiar atmosphere, his own peculiar smell—a smell which filled any lodging with such subtlety that he needed but to make up his bed anywhere, even in a room hitherto untenanted, and to drag thither his greatcoat and other impedimenta, for that room at once to assume an air of having been lived in during the past ten years.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

He only remembered that she was young and poor, a girl far away from mother's love and father's care, and he was moved to help her with an impulse as quick and natural as that which would prompt him to put out his hand to save a baby from a puddle.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I have often remarked that theories which are of a revolutionary nature, since they cannot be put in practice without a complete and sometimes a sudden change in the state of property and persons, are much less favorably viewed in the United States than in the great monarchical countries of Europe: if some men profess them, the bulk of the people reject them with instinctive abhorrence.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

They aimed no higher than the traditional policy of the empire, "the good old rule" that "might makes right," which had guided the rulers of Siam ever since Siam began to exist as a kingdom and a nation; so that everybody preyed upon his weaker neighbor, and everybody was obliged to suffer, without hope of redress, the wrongs which one stronger than himself could inflict.
— from The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens

I have often reflected that there is a very human order in the petitions in our Lord's prayer.
— from The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson

He had often referred that matter to the church, but he had never received any satisfaction.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

However, Jerry, who had his own reasons to retire, slipped away unostentatiously and read Victoria's letter for the second time.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

Colonel Muter and Lieutenant-Colonel Miller had the honour of receiving the riband and badge of companion of the order of the Bath.
— from Historical Record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1689, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1846 by Richard Cannon

Every word of hers, every gesture, every inflection of her sweet, clear voice, every lifting of her head, her eyes, her perfectly gloved hands, only repeated to him what he knew was a certainty.
— from The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Having taken notice of the most material articles that have occurred relative to this subject, I shall venture, though with much diffidence, to submit some outlines of an Hospital for Inoculation to the public, premising, that in respect to situation, the environs of London do not seem to afford a better spot than that on which the inoculating Hospital at Pancras is built, which, with the ground adjoining to it being four acres, is sufficient for the accommodation of any number of patients for the benefit of the air; in short, every local advantage would be there enjoyed in great perfection: the present building is not however capacious enough for such a purpose, but it may be enlarged, and the whole extent of ground ought to be walled in, to prevent all intercourse with others, or giving any offence to the public; and I have not the least doubt of the acquiescence and assistance of the present governors, to any scheme for the extension of this noble and useful charity, as they have, with a most distinguished application and disinterestedness, employed their best endeavours to promote the interest of the present establishment.
— from Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations Containing a translation of two treatises written when the author was at Petersburg, and published there, by Command of her Imperial Majesty, in the Russian Language by Thomas Dimsdale

The restlessness I speak of as born of undisciplined bigness, of moneyed magnitude, is visible everywhere, and more so in the hours of relaxation than those of business.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright