MY TWENTY-FIVE DAYS I had just taken possession of my room in the hotel, a narrow den between two papered partitions, through which I could hear every sound made by my neighbors; and I was beginning to arrange my clothes and linen in the wardrobe with a long mirror, when I opened the drawer which is in this piece of furniture.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The ship was safe in the harbor, and next day they all set sail for Naples, where Ferdinand and Miranda were to be married.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But among the Gentiles various sects had no restraint; the Skeptics doubted of everything; the Academics suspended their judgment on everything; the Epicureans were persuaded that the Divinity could not meddle in human affairs, and in their hearts admitted no Divinity.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02 by Voltaire

The dominie's heart warmed to the man who, though of a different communion, fulfilled St. Paul's ideal of a clergyman, in that he arrogated no dominion over the people's faith, but was a helper of their joy.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

If the houses are not dirtier than the street, it is only because every possible element of filth enters into the latter; if they are not dirtier inside than outside, it is because superlatives have no superlative.
— from The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

About three miles below Cincinnati I received instructions to halt, and next day I was ordered by Major-General H. G. Wright to take my troops back to Louisville, and there assume command of the Pea Ridge Brigade, composed of the Second and Fifteenth Missouri, Thirty-sixth and Forty-fourth Illinois infantry, and of such other regiments as might be sent me in advance of the arrival of General Buell's army.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

[Pg 275] prietors,—and no one could impart to him all necessary details about them better than could Akím.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

On the way to church, Aunty explained how it came that the poor mother was in the house, and no doubt would be able to tell why she sought shelter under their roof.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

They are mild and inoffensive in manner, and in these hills are not distinguished by the bad pre-eminence which attaches to their race in the plains.”
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

40 —A small caste of jugglers, who come from Rājputāna and travel about in the Hoshangābād and Nimār Districts.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

First, there is no reason for a diminution of the fertility, as all characters are paired in the hybrid, and no disturbance whatever ensues in its internal structure.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries