He had made a restitution to young Jolyon, and restitution to young Jolyon satisfied his secret craving for revenge-revenge against Time, sorrow, and interference, against all that incalculable sum of disapproval that had been bestowed by the world for fifteen years on his only son.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

For several miles in this direction, the mountains appeared reluctant to yield their dominion, but within reach of the eye they diverged, and finally melted into the level and sandy lands, across which we have accompanied our adventurers in their double journey.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Once she looked back, and when she saw him ride More near by many a rood than yestermorn, It wellnigh made her cheerful; till Geraint Waving an angry hand as who should say 'Ye watch me,' saddened all her heart again.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

You must also remember that your decision is for Athens no less than Corcyra, and that you are not making the best provision for her interests, if at a time when you are anxiously scanning the horizon that you may be in readiness for the breaking out of the war which is all but upon you, you hesitate to attach to your side a place whose adhesion or estrangement is alike pregnant with the most vital consequences.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The experience of the latter suggested much and minute advice respecting the youth's journey through the trackless forest.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let me return to my home, and weep unrestrained my shame and my affliction!' 'Return to your home?' repeated the Monk, with bitter and contemptuous mockery; Then suddenly his eyes flaming with passion, 'What?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I like to perform good actions and to get pleasure for my money, but not at the expense of my liberty: Whenever you want to know my affairs, recollect that you can receive information about them only from me, and public rumour is only good to amuse fools.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The youngest of his sons, Noël Brulart de Sillery, [169] having brilliantly completed his studies at Paris in the classics, entered, at the age of 18, the military order of the Knights of Malta, and resided twelve years in that island as a knight; his martial bearing and ability, modesty, and uniform good conduct soon paved the way for him to the highest dignities in this celebrated Order.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

The Swedish monarch appeared ready to yield to these efforts.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

Dear Sir and Brother : "Enclosed I send you an address from the Board of Managers of the Washington National Monument Society to members of our Order, asking their contributions in aid of the Washington National Monument, and request that you will place it before your Council and lend your influence towards the accomplishment of the object in view.
— from History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick L. (Frederick Loviad) Harvey

“Yourself, most assuredly,” replied the young man, not without a slight blush.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

You must always remember that you are of great importance to us, Susan, though we have not the first claim on you.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Did he ever make a remark to you, "Well, that is the way the ball bounces."
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Respectful as he always is to his mother, and ready to yield to her wishes, yet when she sees he has fully made up his mind upon a point, she never tries to change his decision.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

I was proud that it should be so, proud to think that you might become a deliverer of the nation; and then it would have been meet and right that you should take to yourself, as a wife, a daughter of one of the great ones of the land."
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I will be with you by nine to-morrow, as that hour seems most convenient to you: is it impossible I may 92 still find you so obliging as not to think any more of repaying what I certainly never lent you, in any other sense than that of giving me a right to your purse, whenever I should want it, and which you must forego some convenience to repay?
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of