"Come, then," said Matthew, mustering his manly courage and drawing her along with him; for she became timid again the moment that he grew bold.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There were probably no more than one or two who had as many contacts as Dr. Huld, but they don't bother with the company of the lawyers' room and have nothing to do with it.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

We passed in conversations in the shade the most charming and delightful hours, more so than any I had hitherto enjoyed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

H2 anchor CHAPTER 64 A n old Acquaintance is recognised under melancholy Circumstances, and Dotheboys Hall breaks up for ever Nicholas was one of those whose joy is incomplete unless it is shared by the friends of adverse and less fortunate days.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

(However let Dionysus himself decide about these things, though I do indeed implore him to inspire my mind and yours with his own sacred frenzy for the true knowledge of the gods, so that we may not by remaining too long uninspired by him have to suffer the fate of Pentheus, perhaps even while we are alive, but most certainly after death has freed us from the body.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Probably, however, a good many people were left with the firm conviction that, if only more courage and despatch had been shown by the garrison, at least a score of brigands would have failed to get away with their lives.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Mr. Micawber coughed, and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction—still glancing at Traddles, as if he desired to have his opinion.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The messenger came and delivered his message: "There is a fastness choke full of all sorts of stores, but we cannot take it, it is too strong; nor can we easily get away; the enemy rush out and deliver battle, and the return is difficult.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

She was weeping that her dream of her position being made clear and definite had been annihilated forever.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the evening of the twenty-seventh, he issued his final orders; assembled in his presence the military chiefs, and dispersed his heralds through the camp to proclaim the duty, and the motives, of the perilous enterprise.
— 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

He leased Clark & Babcock’s six-thousand acres in McKean county and drilled hundreds of paying wells.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

I pulled the trigger the instant that I had the man covered, and down he dropped, motionless, the ponderous tiller escaping from his grasp and swinging heavily back amidships, with the result that the junk, which was already coming to, at once fell off again at the precise instant when her whole starboard broadside burst into flame and smoke, the missiles luckily passing just ahead of us and very considerably damaging our figurehead, but doing no worse injury.
— from Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship by Harry Collingwood

Every great man consumes and digests his own times.
— from The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons

Motor car and driver had disappeared over the brink of the chasm.
— from The Speedwell Boys and Their Racing Auto; Or, A Run for the Golden Cup by Roy Rockwood

Love to Mrs. Coleridge and David Hartley, and my kind remembrance to Lloyd, if he is with you.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

I was lying upon the wet deck of a small fishing craft; my head was supported by a coil of rope, while my coat and doublet had been removed and a bandage placed around my shoulder.
— from The Young Cavalier: A Story of the Civil Wars by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Let my resignation and courage, my consideration and devotion, help to smooth the rough places of life for her as long as she remains with you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

The man who stands and falls by his principles can endure reverses; but he who has given the best energies of his life to a cause which was never his at heart, which in his inmost soul he must condemn and despise, has no anchor, no stay in the hour of misfortune."
— from No Surrender by E. Werner