“You see what the Japanese monkeys are like,” Von Koren began, rolling himself up in his cloak and shutting his eyes.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

One or two smaller bouquets adorned the mantel, and late violets clustered about the open windows.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

And on Dionysius asking, who he meant, he replied, "I mean Æschines, a man of as good a character as any of Socrates' pupils whatever, and able to improve by his conversation any with whom he might associate: and he is neglected, though he has made a long voyage here to discuss philosophy with you."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Gulbeyaz and her lord were sleeping, or At least one of them!—Oh, the heavy night, When wicked wives, who love some bachelor, Lie down in dudgeon to sigh for the light Of the gray morning, and look vainly for Its twinkle through the lattice dusky quite— To toss, to tumble, doze, revive, and quake
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

So in the evening my mind a little vexed, but yet without reason, for I shall prevail, I hope, for the King’s profit, and so home to supper and to bed. 15th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Bayreuth is merely a large village, and has no very large hotels or eating-houses.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

By St. Christopher’s whiskers, said Friar John, I dare lay a wager that it was because they had formerly engaged Chitterlings, or men as little valued; whom to rout, conquer, and destroy, cooks are without comparison more fit than cuirassiers and gendarmes armed at all points, or all the horse and foot in the world.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Father Francisco Sanchez, Rizal’s instructor in rhetoric in the Ateneo, made a long visit to Dapitan and brought with him some surveyor’s instruments, which his former pupil was delighted to assist him in using.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Mrs. Nickleby had scarcely been put away behind the curtain of the box in an armchair, when Sir Mulberry and Lord Verisopht arrived, arrayed from the crowns of their heads to the tips of their gloves, and from the tips of their gloves to the toes of their boots, in the most elegant and costly manner.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Mr Allworthy looked very much amazed at this behaviour.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

As Mr. Algernon Lee very tersely puts it, "The slave was not a slave because of his slavish ideals and beliefs; the slave was slavish in his ideals and beliefs because he lived the life of a slave."
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

Spencer's religiousness has a much more meagre and less varied character: the acknowledgment and veneration of the indiscernible; but he nevertheless gives us with this content and object a real object, even an object of veneration, in which the abundance of all reality is hidden, with the only conception that the indiscernible Page 200 [200] does not let us look into its cornucopia, but only lets us judge of the abundance of its contents by the richness of that which it pours over us in the world of the relatively perceptible.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

A visit of constraint would be, to me at least, very painful.
— from A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

There is a vast mass of tradition extant relative to the Horse, enough to make a large volume, and in it there is a great deal which is so nearly allied to this story as to establish its antiquity.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Even the girls got the war spirit, and Marie Dupont said: “I would I were a man; I would start this minute!” and looked very proud of herself, and glanced about for applause.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

My father tells every one who will listen to him that he has acquired an income of fifteen thousand francs by his awning manufactory at La Villette; and then, too, there is their little residence, with its beautiful garden, to which they have retired.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

The Jesuits would govern the kingdom, as they did at the end of Louis XIV.'s reign: and you would see the fanatical Bishop of Verdun Prime Minister, and La Vauguyon all-powerful under some other title.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

As for madame, a lively, volatile, giddy creature, with no thought for anything save dress and amusements, she never spoke to monsieur except to ask him for money, or to talk about some festivity that she proposed to give.
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock

We kept the captain to dinner, and gathered a good deal more understanding of the important position to which Clarence had risen by force of character and rectitude of purpose in that strange little Anglo-Chinese colony; and afterwards, I was allowed to make a long visit to Clarence, who, having eaten and slept, was quite ready to talk.
— from Chantry House by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge