Vera Iosifovna wrote to Dmitri Ionitch that she was missing him very much, and begged him to come and see them, and to relieve her sufferings; and, by the way, it was her birthday.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When Von Rabbek’s wife happened to pass by him, he gave her such a broad and friendly smile that she stood still and looked at him inquiringly.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But it is the Sixth Circle, with its minarets, that is the city; its walls, however, serving as bulwarks for all the lower Inferno.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

That would be true enough if every traveller were honest, if he only said what he saw and believed, and if truth were not tin
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'd missed her, She came anew, To play i' the fount alone but for her sister, And bared to view The finest, rosiest, most tempting ankle, Like that of child— Oh!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

You can see how much he has stupefied and bewildered me.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Bradley then turned to retrace his steps, and by-and-by struck off through little-traversed ways, and by-and-by reached school and home.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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— from Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in Aeroplanes by W. LeMaitre

I was delighted that I had secured assistance, but I do believe the uppermost thought was delight that we had been able to develop gratitude and affection.
— from Mark Rutherford's Deliverance by William Hale White

And none of us, not even the elders, could know him for that he was, on this his sudden appearing, but with evil words we assailed him and hurled things at him.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

The boys take long walks in the country, each in turn, as we have said, accompanied by a professor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Or He may come, as He comes on winter nights to many a gallant soul—not in the repose of Nature, but in her rage—in howling storm and blinding foam and ruthless rocks and whelming surge—and whisper to them even so—as the sea swallows all of them which it can take—of calm beyond, which this world cannot give and cannot take away.
— from Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Charles Kingsley