At last, one day, Emmanuel came to his wife, who had just finished making up the accounts.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

such of them as do mark themselves in this manner prefer their legs and arms on which they imprint parallel lines of dots either longitudinally or circularly.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I have heard him smack his lips over dinners, every guest at which, except himself, had long been food for worms.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every body has as many different interests as he has feelings; likings or dislikings, either of a selfish or of a better kind.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Sometimes their drum is heard in lonely places in the mountains, but it is not safe to follow it, because the Little People do not like to be disturbed at home, and they throw a spell over the stranger so that he is bewildered and loses his way, and even if he does at last get back to the settlement he is like one dazed ever after.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He lay there, sick and unable to leave his bed, for three months, and did nothing but pray to God to forgive him, for he thought the devil would surely have him for cutting his own throat; and when he got about again, which is now twelve years ago, he left off drinking entirely, and wanders about the woods with his dogs, hunting.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Before I left, he made me promise to spend at least one day every week with him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Dispénseme usted si en esta cuestión doy más fe a la opinión de ella que a la de su mamá.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Madame is a lady of deep education, sir.”
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

Two of the undersigned carried him bleeding from the field, and witnessed the cruel treatment and insulting language of Doctor E.”
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

As Pompeiis, however, are rare in the world, the chief repositories of antique furniture have been mansions shut up for a generation or two, which, after more fashions than generations have passed away, are reopened to the light of day, either in consequence of the revival of the fortunes of their old possessors, or of their total extinction and the entry of new owners.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

I can for those four and twenty hours afford the luxury of doing exactly and only what it pleases me to do."
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

He was dressed with some distinction; good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change of fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Then he said: “Cold lips and breast without breath, Is there no voice, no language of death?” Edwin Arnold.
— from The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking "Did Betty go blind?" "Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the Giant Scissors?" Did the Little Colonel ever have any more good times at Locust, or did Eugenia ever forget that she too had started out to build a Road of the Loving Heart?
— from The Little Colonel's Holidays by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Clean linen is the first our life craves, and the last our death enjoys.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston

Understanding ( Verstand ) is defined only in its logical or discursive employment.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Voltaire with his keen love of dramatic effect was the first to awaken the widespread interest in an historic enigma for which there was no plausible solution.
— from Early French Prisons Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons by Arthur Griffiths