In the secretary of the theatre, Hofrat Winkler (known as Theodor Hell), I also had an old friend of my family, besides which I had been introduced to the conductor, Reissiger, with whom I and my friend Apel had spent a pleasant evening on the occasion of our excursion to Bohemia in earlier days.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Go to my father's, to Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, and tell him I haven't gone to Tchermashnya.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For this reason Kratinus alludes to him in his play of the 'Thracian Woman'— "Our Jove with lofty skull appears; The Odeum on his head he bears, Because he fears the oyster-shell no more."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Using the same caution still, I now accounted for my presence at Knowlesbury in the same manner, and I put it to the doctor to say whether the trust reposed in me by a lady whom he well knew, and the hospitality I had myself received in his house, justified me or not in asking him to come to my assistance in a place where I was quite friendless.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Because of the close acquaintance that exists between all the University porters and keepers, he knows all that happens in the four faculties, in the registry, in the chancellor's cabinet, and the library.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The country custom of unreserved comradeship out of doors during betrothal was the only custom she knew, and to her it had no strangeness; though it seemed oddly anticipative to Clare till he saw how normal a thing she, in common with all the other dairy-folk, regarded it.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Now at this very time it was that these ill men came to the king, and told him in what a pompous manner the armed men came, and with what insolence Antigonus marched, and that such his insolence was too great for a private person, and that accordingly he was come with a great band of men to kill him; for that he could not endure this bare enjoyment of royal honor, when it was in his power to take the kingdom himself.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Nagpaílub siya bísag kápuy ang trabáhu, He is patient although his work is wearisome.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Finally, the Persian nobles dethroned this communistic king, and threw him into prison; but when Kobad escaped from confinement and, by the aid of the Huns, was again placed in possession of his dominions, they were unable to prevent Mazdak's adherents from renewing their licentious conduct.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

He knocked at the house in Los Tejares, and the door was immediately opened to him.
— from The city of the discreet by Pío Baroja

And at night he went away home without the price of the board, but, instead, a note to the effect that the amount was payable on application to Captain Kemp at the Hole in the Wall, Wapping.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

She leaves it to you ‘as a token that she had now discovered the falseness of the accusations made to her, twenty years ago, against you, and desires you to keep and to hold it, whatever attempts may be made to dislodge you, and whatever it may cost.’
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The spy says there is an Artillery Officer prisoner with Ayoub Khan, and that he is very well treated in every way; he also says that the enemy have 1,500 wounded now lying at Maiwand.
— from Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880 by Henry Francis Brooke

It might well, therefore, happen that this great bear was in his time a knight accustomed to hunt in the forests of [631] Biscay; he probably did something to anger some deity of the woods, and consequently lost his human shape, and got changed into a bear, to do penance for his offence."
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

How am I ‘to keep and to hold it, at whatever cost?’
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Barbara brought the pajamaed Carlyle out for his good-night kiss and took him in to bed.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

It was hardly necessary to tell us, as Fielding is careful to do, that her sense of humour was keen, and that her insight into the ridiculous was tempered only by the deeper insight of her heart.
— from Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden