Milady and Rochefort exchanged a smile and separated.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

His soldiers, animated with martial and religious enthusiasm, assaulted the camp of Litorius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This is a remark upon which it would be absurd to found a system, but which perhaps explains the success of many a rash enterprise, and proves how much actual war differs from narrow theory.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The warlike states of antiquity, Greece, Macedonia, and Rome, educated a race of soldiers; exercised their bodies, disciplined their courage, multiplied their forces by regular evolutions, and converted the iron, which they possessed, into strong and serviceable weapons.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

When bedtime came, we all kissed mamma and retired early, as usual.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

There were one or two robberies—real bonâ fide robberies; men had up before the magistrates and committed for trial—and that seemed to make us all afraid of being robbed; and for a long time, at Miss Matty’s, I know, we used to make a regular expedition all round the kitchens and cellars every night, Miss Matty leading the way, armed with the poker, I following with the hearth-brush, and Martha carrying the shovel and fire-irons with which to sound the alarm; and by the accidental hitting together of them she often frightened us so much that we bolted ourselves up, all three together, in the back-kitchen, or store-room, or wherever we happened to be, till, when our affright was over, we recollected ourselves and set out afresh with double valiance.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In the mornings, a raw egg and a glass of sherry; at twelve, some slices of a leg of mutton, almost raw, with tea; at four, toast and tea; in the evening, pale ale and toast; after which he undressed his man, rubbed him, and put him to bed.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

[130] Again, if that transition period between mediæval and modern times was suffering from moral and religious exhaustion and was inclined to be pessimistic concerning spiritual goods, and if, for its moral reform, what was needed was a leader deeply imbued with faith in revelation, able by the very strength of his faith to arouse the world of his day, and to inspire the lame and timid with enthusiasm and delight in the ancient treasures of religion—then, again, one is forced to ask whether such a man as Luther, even apart from his new and erroneous doctrines, had the requisite strong and overbearing devotion to supernatural truths?
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

It was early summer in Shetland; the top of lonely Mount Bressay was still shrouded in snow, but all the moorlands were green with grass and heather, and gay with wild hyacinth and crimson-belled bilberry bushes; the light breeze that blew over the islands and across the blue sea was balmy and yet bracing—it was a breeze that raised the spirits; yes, and it did something else, it appealed to the inner man, as Ralph expressed, and so, when after a ride of over a dozen miles a well-known roadside hostelry hove in sight, our heroes positively hailed it with a cheer.
— from The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

When my turn came, the poem I wrote, which duly appeared, was, like my friend's Moor , a recollected emotion, a mental experience relived.
— from A Traveller in Little Things by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

"Take, then, at your choice two or three score lances, gentlemen and men-at-arms who are well mounted, and ride ever a day's march before the army, spying out the enemy and sending messengers constantly to us, as we shall send to you; for I trust not the Greek guides we have.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

; then come those in which the magical and religious elements "actually and materially uniting the man and woman" are prominent ( loc. cit. , pp. 370-390).
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

My father gave me a rare education, and I made the most of it.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore