Yet all the same this information astonished and irritated the count, coming as it did in the form of a simple note with an order from Kutúzov, and received at night, breaking in on his beauty sleep.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“He is very kind, Anna, really, and not half such a prig as he seems.”
— from Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

After several weeks have passed, very likely after entering a new place, the old servant will turn up some day, express her thanks for all past kindnesses and regrets at not returning in time, will take her pay and her bundles, and disappear forever.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

It tells the story of the great conflict between Koutouzoff and Russia and Napoleon and France, it begins some years before Austerlitz, and it ends page 227 p. 227
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley

One of these posts discovered by the Sûreté Nationale was in an old boarding house run by two ancient spinsters with equally ancient guests who spent their time in rockers, knitting and reading and not dreaming that underneath the porch on which they sat so tranquilly was a fortress with enough explosives to blow the whole street to smithereens.
— from Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. (John Louis) Spivak

"Stories first heard at a mother's knee," affirms Ruffini, "are never wholly forgotten—a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years."
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

And on the Saturday following he was at the playhouse, to see the opera; that on the Friday night the revels ended at the Temple, the same being concluded by a fine masquerade, at which the Tzar of Muscovy was present; that on the following Sunday he went in a hackney-coach to Kensington, and returned at night to his lodgings in Norfolk-street, 7 where he was attended by several of the King's servants.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title by Various

Moreover, there are many extant histories to show that intelligent westerns went to India for knowledge and religion, and never seemed to think of carrying their own faith thither.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

You've rankled the heart of an old man, that has never harmed you or your'n, with bitter feelings toward his kind, at a time when his thoughts should be on a better world; and you've driven him to wish that the beasts of the forest, who never feast on the blood of their own families, was his kindred and race; and now, when he has come to see the last brand of his hut, before it is incited into ashes, you follow him up, at midnight, like hungry hounds on the track of a worn-out and dying deer.
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

But one can know about rugs and not have to sell them, can't one?"
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King