Now, you must attentively listen to her and look at the beautiful elder-tree.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“Then give me a letter to him, and tell him to sell out without an instant’s delay, perhaps even now I shall arrive too late.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Money mattered as little to him as to anybody, but money was their life.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

“My lord, it would be too long a story; it would take me at least two hours, and your grace seems busy.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Early the next day I paid the abbe a visit, and after reproaching him for his behaviour I gave him his choice between paying me the money he owed me and leaving the house at once.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Her husband’s fellow-prisoners shrank from obtruding on his grief and misery, and left to himself alone, the small room he had previously occupied in common with two companions.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

To those not familiar with reconcentration tactics it should be explained that reconcentration means this: You notify, by proclamation and otherwise, all persons within a given area, that on and after a certain day they must all leave their homes and come within a certain prescribed zone or radius of which a named [ 389 ] town is usually the centre, there to remain until further orders, and that all persons found outside that zone after the date named will be treated as public enemies.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

‘In remembrance of Me’—Jesus Christ, then, takes up an altogether unique and solitary position here, and into the sacredest hours of devotion and the loftiest moments of communion with God, intrudes His personality, and says, ‘When you are most religious, remember Me; and let the highest act of your devout life be a thought turned to Myself.’
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

In the happy firelight glows: Clasp'd in my arms, lie tranquil here; And listen, Ida dear.
— from Primavera: Poems by Four Authors by Stephen Phillips

Spence had proposed a withdrawal of a part of the loan from the market as likely to have a stabilizing effect, and opposed the Erlanger plan of using the funds already in hand.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Okota came out from the throng, placed his stool near the feet of the missionary, and listened to him attentively.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

That is to make every man a law to himself, and to cause the rule of the Government to be defied."
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

It seems it is my wife's impression that whenever there was an argument that my mother antagonized Lee towards hostility against my wife.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Be up early to-morrow morning, and leave the hotel at half-past seven, as if you were going for a walk.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

So little by little I did get to Grasse, and there one of the women who knew my Brigasque friends gave me welcome, because some of them had given me a letter to her asking her to be kind.
— from Othmar by Ouida

He was her absolute master and lord, the head and soul of "the feminine and feeble creature" who owed to him "perfect love and obedience."
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis