III All that night, with its almost grotesque incidents, and the terrible dénouement that followed in the early morning, still seems to me like a hideous nightmare, and is, for me at least, the most painful chapter in my chronicle.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Miss F., in the ecstatic moments, seemed as if she would have pressed my head into her belly.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

In the evening, Montoni sat late, carousing with his guests in the cedar chamber.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Who without upper garments and barefooted, Like slave-girls, in the early morning swept Around Athene's altar all unveiled, Till old age came upon them with its burdens," all because Ajax violated Cassandra.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“Why, you came out splendidly in the exams Miss Stacy gave.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The first soubrette died suddenly, and in the emergency Mr. Sharp offered the place to Christie till he could fill it to his mind.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

The sun had not yet risen, but the east was all tinged with red and gold and had dissipated the haze which usually, in the early morning, screens the blue of the sky from the eyes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If her hopes were baffled, in the ensuing month she reiterated the experiment.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Malaysia Malaysia was formed in 1963 through a federation of the former British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, including the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In these extraordinary manifestations she had a full and clear view of the mystery of iniquity, of the root and foundation of human depravity, and of the very act of transgression committed by the first man and woman in the garden of Eden.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

This idyll had an admirable plaint for its first epilogue, Mon âme, il me semble que vous êtes un jardin ... (Tr. 33) a garden where one sees, hanging on the hedges, in the evening mist, shreds of the veil De la Dame
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont

As this sentence betrayed how much I had looked forward to your speech, and how mistaken I had [Pg 21] been in that expectation, my speech caused some amusement, and was received with a moderate amount of laughter; but the laugh was not against you, it was rather at my mistake, and at the open and naïve confession of my eagerness to be commended by you.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It I love above all other things, and yet of my free will I would grant it to every man, so that all who are on this earth might love it and search after it, yea, find it, and then use it; for I know that each of us would love the other by so much more as our will and our love were more in unison.
— from King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies Turned into Modern English by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

What will impress the ear more sharply than a falsetto voice?
— from Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles Containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original by Dean Rivers

The reason of the mission of the Prophets is to educate men, so that this piece of coal may become a diamond, and this fruitless tree may be engrafted and yield the sweetest, most delicious fruits.
— from A Compilation on Bahá'í Education by Universal House of Justice

AN ACT OF PIRACY D URING dinner there was nothing to indicate that ere morning strange doings were to be enacted on board the Olive Branch .
— from The Sea Monarch by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman