I should be more happy if destiny had chosen me to procure for my country 281 the benefit of a lasting peace.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

But as those countries which I have described do not appear to have any desire of being conquered and enslaved, murdered or driven out by colonies, nor abound either in gold, silver, sugar, or tobacco, I did humbly conceive, they were by no means proper objects of our zeal, our valour, or our interest.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Yes, I did wait—yes, I did hope, count, and during this quarter of an hour we have been talking together, you have unconsciously wounded, tortured my heart, for every word you have uttered proved that there was no hope for me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We have a cousin of his here, and I daresay he could tell you where he is.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

accomplishment,—talks [159] slang, drives about in London, smokes cigarettes, is knowing in dogs, horses, &c.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

In desperation he called out: “Go away!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In that singular country if a rich man dies a sinner, he is damned; he can not buy salvation with money for masses.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death,—they too go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award—let them abide by theirs.
— from Apology by Plato

When this is done, he can view text and pictures on the screen, and use the received data in other applications.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

As in despair he continued to repeat one word, “Aiván, aiván,” in a tone that appealed to our every sympathy as reasonable beings, we felt the full indecorum of our continued unintelligence, and would gladly have compounded, by appearing to understand, and allowing the event to work itself out.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

"I wonder if daddy has come back yet?"
— from The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope

I do not know if Thou wilt ever grant me the happiness of being a mother; but if I do have children some day, I swear to Thee, O my God, that, whatever fault they may have committed, whatever their crimes, I will never curse them, I will never close my arms to them!"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) by Paul de Kock

Little that is definite, however, can be done until the gangway is lowered and the boatmen’s representatives have swarmed on the deck itself.
— from Greece and the Ægean Islands by Philip Sanford Marden

She declared "before God and in her conscience, that she knew the libels against him to be most scandalous, and such as none but an incarnate devil himself could dream to be true.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

The various moods of Adorni—his deepening devotion to Camiola, his humility at her rebuke, his fidelity in doing her commands, his temptation [pg 133] to commit suicide—are admirably portrayed.
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank

I shall not sign myself your Counselor, though you honor me with the title, for I am sure that any counsel I can give at this vast distance is of very small account, but I do heartily call myself your sincere friend, John Monro Gibson .
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1 by Chautauqua Institution

The rest of the crew, or middlemen as they are called, merely sit still and look on, or give a stroke with their oars if required; while the steersman, with powerful sweeps of his heavy oar, directs the flying boat as it bounds from surge to surge like a thing of life; and the bowman stands erect in front to assist in directing his comrade at the stern, having a strong and long pole in his hands, with which, ever and anon, he violently forces the boat's head away from sunken rocks, against which it might otherwise strike and be stove in, capsized, or seriously damaged.
— from Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Ingram dropped his companion's arm and stood looking at him.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various