Have you heard her speak before of what she has just told us?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The grounds about the house were laid out in the old formal manner of artificial flower-beds, clipped shrubberies, raised terraces, and heavy stone balustrades, ornamented with urns, a leaden statue or two, and a jet of water.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

All at once, a thundering voice was heard, shouting:— “Be off with you, or I’ll blow up the barricade!”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He saw but one way; and that was to get off and escape if he could.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The young man wept, and when all were against him, the abbot cunningly took his part, lest he should be overcome with immoderate grief: but what need many words?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

and note), that hatred should be overcome with love or high—mindedness, and not required with hatred in return.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

I can now inform you for certain it comes from the Six Nations; and that they have sent belts of wampum and deputies to all the nations from Nova Scotia to the Illinois, to take up the hatchet against the English, and have employed the Mississaguas to send belts of wampum to the northern nations.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

he said, breaking off with coarse sarcasm and impatience.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This visit is intended for the prime minister of England; but you’ll see how this wise duke will receive it as a mark of attachment to his own person’—Certain it is, the duke seemed eager to acknowledge the compliment—A door opened, he suddenly bolted out; with a shaving-cloth under his chin, his face frothed up to the eyes with soap lather; and running up to the ambassador, grinned hideous in his face—‘My dear Mahomet!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I like all the novelties," said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"Of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God," quoted I, and in came Mr. Dudley, as he usually did when not wanted; though I've no reason to find fault with him, notwithstanding his blank treatment of me.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The deputy was the Honourable Septimus Brown, of whom it may be said that the Home Office was so proud that it considered itself to be superior to all other public offices whatever simply because it possessed Brown.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

I do not think I am brave enough to have stood being odious without support; now I feel as bold as a lion.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

It is becoming more and more evident that the chief factor in the production of clean milk is the personality of the producer; he should be one who gets enjoyment out of his clean stables and cows and his high grade product.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

But when he saw that I did not withdraw, He said: "By other ways, by other ports Thou to the shore shalt come, not here, for passage; A lighter vessel needs must carry thee." And unto him the Guide: "Vex thee not, Charon; It is so willed there where is power to do That which is willed; and farther question not." Thereat were quieted the fleecy cheeks Of him the ferryman of the livid fen, Who round about his eyes had wheels of flame.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

"The Lord has singularly blessed our work; the climate—for Africa—is not at all bad; you can't say the scenery is ugly, there are beautiful flowers all around—and—and ferns.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

To his sisters, both of whom are married and ladies of the world, I have appealed with equal results.
— from Comedies and Errors by Henry Harland

You have heard of the Spaniard in love, in love with a woman he had seen but once, whom he might never see again, a princess, etiquette-defended, a goddess, and who yet, seeing a necklace that became her, bought it for the joy of owning something that was at least by fitness hers.
— from Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

So on December 10th, 1891, I, with the little child I had safely brought out with me, landed once more at Alexandria.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler