Now by pleading their rights alone, they will never attain all this, so the white horse, with his rider Death, comes next, and is followed by Hell.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She was homely, had a dowry of 80,000 francs, and gave him rickety, dropsical children.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

"And so, my good friend, if you have any affaire la," said the old General, taking a pinch of snuff with his trembling white old hand, and then pointing to the spot of his robe de chambre under which his heart was still feebly beating, "if you have any Phillis to console, or to bid farewell to papa and mamma, or any will to make, I recommend you to set about your business without delay."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Well, as to going up into their horns," replied Dairyman Crick dubiously, as though even witchcraft might be limited by anatomical possibilities, "I couldn't say; I certainly could not.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[30] habla la lengua de los hombres rurales de Costa Rica.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Thrice more did he fuck her, each time more delicious than the others, and in all seconded by the most splendid action of his mother’s arse, and the most exciting pressures of the inner folds of her really delicious cunt.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The King took three cups, put on his robe de chambre and his stockings, and went to his own room, leaning upon the Doctor.
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 1 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

It had not entered into his mind that his runaway daughter could be so brazen as to come back to the house she had deserted yet awhile, so he issued no orders for her exclusion.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Black Hood read: "Delancy, come to headquarters at once."
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

The children, who had recoiled, drew close again, while the drunken bee crawled feebly in the cage of Tod's large hand.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

They still occupy the Hotel Rue de Charenton, and the curious traveller now passing down the magnificent Rue Rivoli, with palaces on either hand, can scarcely persuade himself that the space round him was, less than a century since, a dedalus of dirty lanes and ill-kept, squalid dwellings.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The breathlessness due to dancing, the trembling of intense excitement and her rapid descent, caused her to shake from head to foot, and her floating ribbons, her ruffles, her flowers, her rich and fashionable attire drooped tragically about her.
— from Fromont and Risler — Volume 4 by Alphonse Daudet

We obtained tolerable quarters in the boarding house of Madame Herries, Rue de Chartres.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

This coolness in his relations distressed Clare less than it would have done had he been without the grand card with which he meant to surprise them ere long.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Downe (8th Viscount).—Colonel Sir Hugh R. Dawnay, C.I.E., M.A., Bart.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke