When they find Soult cannot be traduced, they lend a willing ear to stirring up strife between the Emperor and Soult, by suggesting that the latter should be made King of Portugal.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

It is the expression, however clumsily put, of a personal something which was loved, and will ever be missed, that alone brings solace to those who are left.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Grey-headed, and afflicted with gout, yet still handsome, he is elegantly dressed, and stamped with that air of good breeding which comes only of long association with elevated strata of society.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Márya Dmítrievna was known to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good stories about her, while none the less all without exception respected and feared her.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lebeziatnikov announced with extreme fussiness.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He looked almost with exasperation at the “unhappy lunatic.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Across the belly, behind the legs, is an inscription in some Indian characters, which has not yet been explained beyond the following remarks upon it in a letter addressed by the (late) A. Way Esq., who copied it, to Lady Braybrooke: “The characters are a corruption of the ordinary Sanscrit, that is, I suppose, some local variety or peculiarity of a dialect in Tippoo’s district; they appear to signify certain titles of the great chief, commencing with a portion of his proper style, ‘ Maha ra jah ,’ sufficient to show that the inscription relates only to the name of Tippoo Saib.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

They were going to have repaired the place from top to bottom for your brother to go and live along with 'em in clover 90 when he came back from sea.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

One or two such lines are written experimentally in a suitable script (say, 5 16 inch), and the average number of words per line (four) is found.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

Senor Palma sums up the question of autonomy as follows: "Autonomy would mean that the Cuban people will make their own laws, appoint all their public officers, except the governor-general, and attend to the local affairs with entire independence, without, of course, interference by the metropolis.
— from Cuba: Its Past, Present, and Future by A. D. (Arthur D.) Hall

THE PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY LADY ALLONBY, WHO ENTERS IN A FLURRY The author bade we come —Lud, I protest!—
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

There begins a sort of “festival of life” at which even insects sing, a tortoise comes on the scene with certain sacramental Latin words, and even, if I remember aright, a mineral sings about something that is a quite inanimate object.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The little ormolu clock on the chimney-piece struck the quarter after eleven while Lady Audley was employed in this manner; five minutes afterward she re-entered the room in which she had left Phoebe Marks.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon