In going towards the door, I passed the person who had come in, and saw him plainly.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Sir Gilbert Elliot accompanied them; and it was agreed that, in consideration of the succours, both military and naval, which his Britannic Majesty should afford for the purpose of expelling the French, the island of Corsica should be delivered into the immediate possession of his Majesty, and bind itself to acquiesce in any settlement he might approve of concerning its government, and its future relation with Great Britain.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

But the instant Ambrosio saw her he addressed her, with manifest indignation: "Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched being thy cruelty has robbed of life; or is it to exult over the cruel work of thy humours that thou art come; or like another pitiless Nero to look down from that height upon the ruin of his Rome in embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin's?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He is a sot, his taste is palled and flat; he no more enjoys what he has than one that has a cold relishes the flavour of canary, or than a horse is sensible of his rich caparison.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As late as 1914, an American inventor produced a home roaster for use in a stove hole.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In the ancient republics, where the whole body of the people assembled in person, a single orator, or an artful statesman, was generally seen to rule with as complete a sway as if a sceptre had been placed in his single hand.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

He saw how a light flickered on and the two halves of a window opened out, somebody, made weak and thin by the height and the distance, leant suddenly far out from it and stretched his arms out even further.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Fight ye with darts of every shape, Nor let him from your wrath escape.” Thus spoke the fiend, by rage impelled, And straight his course toward Ráma held.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then would I have balmed it and served it, and so have kept it my life days, and daily I should have clipped thee, and kissed thee, in despite of Queen Guenever.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

CAIRN ( private ), 912 Mandan St., home of Mr. and Mrs. Clell G. Gannon, is a small house built largely of native boulders, and designed by its owners.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

The general was always absent; he preferred country life and the superintendence of his estate, in the first place because his affairs got on the better for it, and secondly he was thus out of reach of the sentimental and romantic claims of his wife, claims which his personal appearance did little to justify.
— from Peasant Tales of Russia by Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko

"The power-source will deplete itself by half in about six hundred years, maybe.
— from Double or Nothing by Jack Sharkey

His mind refused to deal with so impossible a situation; he could not accept it as a fact that such words had actually been uttered in such a presence.
— from Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington

We have ample evidence of the fact that characteristics of an organism may descend to offspring which the organism did not inherit, but which it acquired owing to the special circumstances under which it lived; and that, in consequence, every organism imparts to the germ that issues from it a small heritage of acquisitions which it has added during its own lifetime to the gross inheritance of its race.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

“But I am not the king’s friend; I am simply his attendant.”
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

As to this, I heard Yousouf, whose own courage I hope nobody will dare to dispute, tell what I am sure he will be ready to repeat:—
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

Some were blended into a soft harmony of colour, copper and [200] red and gold; others had strange devices painted on them, griffins and black dragons, elephants and mermen; some were like tiger moths, black and emblazoned.
— from A Little Pilgrimage in Italy by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

"Well, I'll go in and see him.
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair