Milady, however, saw that this sort of narrative amused her very much, and kept at it; only she now let her conversation drift toward the cardinal.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

You go talking about your mamma and Katya, and I understand nothing; and I’ve lost my place.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And I think the man a knave, as I live!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm an object of wrath to each ignorant squire, Who orders his people to hunt me and kill; And if a child cries, all that mothers require Is to mention my name to make it be still.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

We, who live in a much more secure state, have introduced danger into meditation and knowledge, and it is in life itself that we endeavour to find repose, a refuge from danger.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As I praised her beauty, she allowed me to kiss her ardently, but she stopped my further progress by giving me a kiss as if to satisfy me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Some people were like that, Mrs. Arbuthnot knew; and if Mrs. Wilkins had actually seen her at the mediaeval castle it did seem probable that struggling would be a waste of time.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I drank till the daughter began to be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And do the little toils That make the circuit of the rest, And deal occasional smiles To lives that stoop to notice mine And kindly ask it in, — Whose invitation, knew you not For whom I must decline? XV.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Out of the town he fled, past the end of the Stafford road, along which two hours of Sultan's best would bring me to the Hanyards and mother and Kate, and I kept him at it for a full two miles before I gave him a breather and settled down to think out what it meant.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

On the contrary, more acute, knowing, and intelligent people than these very opium smokers I have rarely met with.
— from The Truth about Opium Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade by William H. Brereton

The country people say there is no shape for a spirit to take so dangerous as the shape of a pig; and a Galway blacksmith—and blacksmiths are thought to be specially protected—says he would be afraid to meet a pig on the road at night; and another Galway man tells this story: ‘There was a man coming the road from Gort to Garryland one night, and he had a drop taken; and before him, on the road, he saw a pig walking; and having a drop in, he gave a shout, and made a kick at it, and bid it get out of that.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Awata ware is made at Kioto, and is of more recent origin than the Satsuma, from which it differs chiefly in the more pronounced tint of its prevailing yellow color.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

They had thought little and vaguely, but they had felt much and keenly, and it was evident the man who could voice their feelings, however partially, however perversely, and for his own ends, would be master of their actions.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

I was one of his chiefs in the fight against the Mima and Khawabir Arabs; it was in the plain of Fafa, and a very hot day.
— from The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger

‘When I entered the service, and came back here on leave, he gave me the first sword I ever wore, and treated me as kindly as if I was his son.’
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever