M. Quesnel, finding, that both argument and menace were ineffectual in enforcing an immediate conclusion to it, at length relinquished his endeavours, and trusted to the power of Montoni and to the course of events at Venice.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And perhaps, if we should with attention mind the lives and discourses of people not so far off, we should have too much reason to fear, that many, in more civilized countries, have no very strong and clear impressions of a Deity upon their minds, and that the complaints of atheism made from the pulpit are not without reason.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You go away and I research all the things you've told me and try to confirm them to the extent that I can.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Up, and to my chamber, there to settle some papers, and thither comes Mr. Moore to me and talked till church time of the news of the times about the peace and the bad consequences of it if it be not improved to good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

69 Scarcely ever was the speech of a popular tribune more acceptable to the commons, than was this of a most strict consul on that occasion.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The names of the two elder were the one Ninetta and the other Maddalena and the third called Bertella.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But to regard them as par excellence the humane studies involves a deliberate neglect of the possibilities of the subject matter which is accessible in education to the masses, and tends to cultivate a narrow snobbery: that of a learned class whose insignia are the accidents of exclusive opportunity.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It was my business to see his camels loaded and unloaded at proper places, to count his bales of merchandise, and to take care that they were not mixed with those of his companions.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

On reaching the river bank, the massacre began, and culminated in the shooting or bayoneting of the whole of the white men, and the temporary confinement of the surviving women and children with their unfortunate fellow-sufferers from Futtyghur in the Assembly Rooms at Cawnpore.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

Here and there the embers of a dying fire glowed crimson, and the only occasional sound was of sleepy cattle that chewed the cud contentedly—or when a monkey moved above them to change his roost.
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

Carpets had been spread at the doorway of the temple for myself and the two chiefs; the Sheikhs, Cawals, and principal people of the sect, seated themselves, or rather crouched, against the walls.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

The glory of the sunset seemed a mockery and the thought came to me that I would be fortunate if I saw many more such sights.
— from Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

Without knowing whether I could take chloroform administered by myself, and at the same time perform with skill the excavation of extremely sensitive dentine or tooth-bone, as if no anaesthetic had been taken, and not be conscious of pain, was more than the experience of medical men at that time could assure me.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various

In addition to the foregoing, which has been obtained from head-quarters, certain questions were submitted by me as to the climatology of the different colonies.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

In the morning, after the two Confederates had driven away with their mule-and-ox team in search of a more congenial neighborhood, the elder seated himself on the woodpile to smoke his morning pipe and watch the milking.
— from The Last Three Soldiers by W. H. (William Henry) Shelton