He threw all the more kindness and gentleness into his voice and look as he spoke to her.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Lord forgive us!” says Kamyshev, and goes in to the Frenchman.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A number of passages from this and other writers, specifying charms of various kinds, are given in Becker and Marquardt Rom.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Expeditions of this kind are generally included in grand diversions,—to be treated of in a separate article.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

“I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The value of lace depends not only on the work but on the thread it is made of; all the D.M.C cottons [A] can be recommended for lace-making and coloured laces of all kinds are greatly improved by the addition of a little Chiné d'or D.M.C or Or fin D.M.C pour la broderie.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

"It is all the same, be it more or be it less," replied Sancho; "though I can tell Senor Carrasco that my master would not throw the kingdom he might give me into a sack all in holes; for I have felt my own pulse and I find myself sound enough to rule kingdoms and govern islands; and I have before now told my master as much."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They went and announced him to the King, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

(1497), Lord de Broke obtained of the king a grant in fee of the manor of Trethewye in St. Cleer, and all the lands there, part of the forfeited possessions of Sir Henry Bodrugan, and which were situate near his other property at Callington.
— from The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by W. H. Hamilton (William Henry Hamilton) Rogers

Some of his recommendations are quite unsuitable to the state of the country, and display more of general knowledge and good intention than of either the theory or practice of agriculture.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Day after day, week after week, the pounding from Wagner was maintained so effectually that it was impossible to keep a gun in position on the side of Sumter fronting it, and the only guns remaining mounted were five or six on the side towards Moultrie, in the middle tier of casemates.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

The gunner's mate, one of those men who love to keep a gun in shape, was swabbing it out at the time, and they never saw anything of him again.
— from The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Its garrets, as it were, a head full of knowledge and genius; its first storeys stomachs repleted; its shops, actual feet, where the busy ambulating crowds are moving.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

Kicking rudder and dipping a wing, almost wetting it in the spray of a breaking comber, he flung his airplane into a new line of flight, reversed controls, giving opposite rudder and aileron, got his craft on a stable keel and gave it the gun as he snapped up the flippers to lift her nose and climb after the retreating ’plane.
— from The Haunted Hangar Sky Scouts/Air Mystery series #3 by Van Powell

Thorer went first, and the brothers Karle and Gunstein in rear.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Warwick ordered his followers to spare the common soldiers, and direct their attacks against the leaders; and accordingly of these there were slain 300 knights and gentlemen, including the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Lords Beaumont and Egremont.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Paul suddenly sank to his knees and gasped: "I can't go on!
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I would not know a god if I should see one.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll