Luigi wrote a line privately, and folded up the piece of paper, and handed it to Tom, saying— “I’ll tell you when to look at it, if he finds it.”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

[8] Of late years sometimes two tubas are employed, by Glazounov for instance in his Finnish Fantasia.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

But my sorrows were only increased, because this change of lighting destroyed, as nothing else could have done, the customary impression I had formed of my room, thanks to which the room itself, but for the torture of having to go to bed in it, had become quite endurable.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

He had taken it into his fanciful head that I was likely to make some difficulty as to shaking hands.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

I am aware that it is his fancy and I will give him the boy.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And she flung it in her face just now that she had gone to gentlemen in secret to sell her beauty!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Therefore, I by no means repulsed her present caresses, but looked up innocently in her face, and smiled affectionately.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

This compound nature of patriot and pirate had illumined Italian history from the beginning, and was no more intelligible to itself than to a young American who had no experience in double natures.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Good people all, of every degree, Ye gentle readers and ungentle writers, In this twelfth Canto 't is my wish to be As serious as if I had for inditers Malthus and Wilberforce:—the last set free The Negroes and is worth a million fighters; While Wellington has but enslaved the Whites, And Malthus does the thing 'gainst which he writes.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

If I, her father, hold you worthy to live with her, surely you cannot hold yourself unworthy to die with her.”
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

For the rice harvest, beginning early in September, as soon as a field was drained the negroes would be turned in with sickles, each laborer cutting a swath of three or four rows, leaving the stubble about a foot high to sustain the cut stalks carefully laid upon it in handfuls for a day's drying.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Japan has copied this unfortunate example, and steam trawlers have been introduced in her fishing waters.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

Indeed, I have found several persons who class this amongst the most palatable species.
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

It is hard for us to realize the enslavement of the middle class in former days.
— from The Hansa Towns by Helen Zimmern

My throat is hot and dry; I feel as if I had fire and ice within me, and the air is so heavy.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If he had had pluck and wit enough to take the Beard's accusation with a high hand, if he had met threats with violent denial and assertion, it is quite possible he might have made an impression in his favour; but he cried for pity and for mercy from men who were pitiless!
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

The father looked one instant in her face, then rose with an exclamation: "Where is my son?
— from Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life by George Washington Cable

But the present engagement in war, as it is held forth in the public resolutions, is pretended to be for religion, and yet hath in it a confederacy and conjunction with wicked men, and enemies of true religion.”
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

It stands in the market places, it is not a stranger in the courts of justice, and is in high favor in legislative halls.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott