I had promised the Marquis de las Moras and Colonel Royas that I would come and see them at Saragossa, the capital of Aragon, and I arrived there at the beginning of September.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All that we know of the life of man is merely a certain relation of free will to inevitability, that is, of consciousness to the laws of reason.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the same manner, a complete revolution took place in men's dress according as loose or tight, long or short sleeves were introduced.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Buell with the Army of the Ohio was sent east, following the line of the Memphis and Charleston railroad.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The father, whose whiskers stamped him as a judge, was holding an extraordinarily long rod; three boys of different sizes were carrying poles of different lengths, according to age; and the mother, who was very stout, gracefully manoeuvred a charming rod with a ribbon tied to the handle.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He was a fine, brave, majestic 22 creature, a gentleman according to the nicest requirements of the Virginia rule, a devoted Presbyterian, an authority on the “code,” and a man always courteously ready to stand up before you in the field if any act or word of his had seemed doubtful or suspicious to you, and explain it with any weapon you might prefer from brad-awls to artillery.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

I carry no sword this morning and cannot return home to procure one.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They returned to the charge, helped by the women, who pelted the besiegers with stones, broken bottles, and such other missiles as came readily to hand.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

Before Smith's time, geological maps were lithological rather than stratigraphical, they represented the different kinds of rocks seen upon the surface without regard to their age; since Smith revolutionised geology, the maps of a country composed largely of stratified rocks are essentially stratigraphical, but partly no doubt on account of adherence to old custom, partly on economic grounds, the majority of our stratigraphical maps are lithological rather than palæontological, that is the subdivisions of the strata represented upon the map are chosen rather on account of lithological peculiarities than because of the variations in their enclosed organisms.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

A few kind words, and a voice he loved, now , will do more than all my art could replace a little later.”
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

This I did by removing a small portion of the shifting-boards, in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The following is called Sauce d'Havre , and through the use of it it will be discovered that the taste of curry is an agreeable one in many another case than in connection with the veal and rice arrangement to which most American cooks restrict it.
— from Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Cora Moore

Throwing it in a heap suggestive of a fire, they remarked: "Lookee de wood fo' de fiah," thus making a covert request for a story, and paying the story-teller a delicate compliment.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

After the completion of this road and ferries the Post route came by the mill and church road to Bergen, thence by the road across the meadows.
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton

Two wooden bosses, taken from the ceiling of one of the rooms, and now to be seen in the Chelmsford Museum, are carved, respectively, with the Blue Boar of the De Veres (to which family the house probably once belonged), and the red and white rose combined.
— from The Trade Signs of Essex A popular account of the origin and meanings of the public houses & other signs by Miller Christy

It was not to their interest to do so, for the reason that as long as these raiders could find market for their plunder in Mexico, and could retreat there to get out of reach of our troops, they allowed the Mexicans themselves to rest in peace.
— from George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House by Harry Castlemon