" She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steeled his heart against her.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

WORLD'S COFFEE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS How coffee is roasted, prepared, and served in all the leading civilized countries—The Arabian coffee ceremony—The present-day coffee houses of Turkey—Twentieth-century improvements in Europe and the United States C offee manners and customs have shown little change in the Orient in the six hundred-odd years since the coffee drink was discovered by Sheik Omar in Arabia.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The monster resumed his mask and collected his strength to leave the daroga.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

But when the ambassadors had indignation at this procedure, Antony took fifteen of them, and put them into custody, whom he was also going to kill presently, and the rest he drove away with disgrace; on which occasion a still greater tumult arose at Jerusalem; so they sent again a thousand ambassadors to Tyre, where Antony now abode, as he was marching to Jerusalem; upon these men who made a clamor he sent out the governor of Tyre, and ordered him to punish all that he could catch of them, and to settle those in the administration whom he had made tetrarchs. 7.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

And if any one of the houses be unfortunate, and stained with impiety, and the owner leave no posterity, but dies unmarried, or married and childless, having suffered death as the penalty of murder or some other crime committed against the Gods or against his fellow-citizens, of which death is the penalty distinctly laid down in the law; or if any of the citizens be in perpetual exile, and also childless, that house shall first of all be purified and undergo expiation according to law; and then let the kinsmen of the house, as we were just now saying, and the guardians of the law, meet and consider what family there is in the state which is of the highest repute for virtue and also for good fortune, in which there are a number of sons; from that family let them take one and introduce him to the father and forefathers of the dead man as their son, and, for the sake of the omen, let him be called so, that he may be the continuer of their family, the keeper of their hearth, and the minister of their sacred rites with better fortune than his father had; and when they have made this supplication, they shall make him heir according to law, and the offending person they shall leave nameless and childless and portionless when calamities such as these overtake him.
— from Laws by Plato

That speech of the Lacedæmonian seems to have the same meaning, who, when Diagoras the Rhodian, who had himself been a conqueror at the Olympic games, saw two of his own sons conquerors there on the same day, approached the old man, and, congratulating him, said, “You should die now, Diagoras, for no greater happiness can possibly await you.”
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

'I, that knows so much, and could hang so many besides myself!' 'I don't know,' replied Sikes, clenching his teeth and turning white at the mere suggestion.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

By-the-by, we really must ask Charlotte here some time.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“And I say that murders are committed here,” said Morrel, whose voice, though lower in tone, lost none of its terrible distinctness: “I tell you that this is the fourth victim within the last four months.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Ivanhoe, who had other web to weave than to stand canvassing a palfrey's paces with its owner, lent but a deaf ear to the Prior's grave advices and facetious jests, and having leapt on his mare, and commanded his squire (for such Gurth now called himself) to keep close by his side, he followed the track of the Black Knight into the forest, while the Prior stood at the gate of the convent looking after him, and ejaculating,—“Saint Mary!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The monasteries and convents, however, served their purpose; but now they are gone, and it is to be hoped that as the world becomes wiser and more enlightened the great Creator will be worshipped in a purer and simpler manner.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

GEORGE MILLIKEN, a Child, his Son.
— from The Wolves and the Lamb by William Makepeace Thackeray

For three days I saw nothing of the delightful count, and on the fourth I resolved to ask him to take breakfast with me, as Camille had sent to my house to enquire how I was.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 11: Paris and Holland by Giacomo Casanova

Think upon love, which makes all creatures handsome, Seemly for eye-sight; goe not so diffusedly, There are great Ladies purpose Sir to visit you.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

A few minutes later he again consulted his watch, and rising, grasped Brent about the middle and carried him, struggling and protesting out the door and lashed him securely to the sled.
— from Snowdrift: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

er o ur shalbe answered leyed and obiected to those thing es which the saide Mr. Hawkyns shall intymate and declare as is aforsaide on the kyng es behalf, which being don e and accomplisshed the kyng es gracious pleasure is that ye shall make all conuenyent haste spede and diligence to repayre hither to his grace
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

He's coming back this year, and then—but it'll be too late then.—Well, my father's always scheming to make me perfect—he has never spoken to me a word about her, but I can see her in his eyes—he wanted to give me a change, he said, and asked me to come to town with my uncle Hippy, and I consented.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

[4] Pain had depressed his eye-lids, yet with difficulty he raised them towards the maiden; and collecting his spirits, in a languid voice thus addressed her (while the pirates were still gazing upon both): "My love, are you indeed alive?
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

about —— you were going to tell me —— " "About coming here," said John, feeling that to say it out bluntly was now the best.
— from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant