The young man could not explain whence the drug came: the only two persons who visited the house were Simoun and Padre Irene, the former rarely, while the latter never ceased exhorting him to be severe and inexorable with the treatment, to take no notice of the invalid’s ravings, for the main object was to save him.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

In the yard, where a few moments before there had been so many cries, now everything was desolate and silent as in a graveyard; all had gone afield.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The candidate who long remains at the porch of the temple, and lingers in the middle chamber, noting everything worthy of observation in his passage to the holy of holies, while he better understands the nature of the profession upon which he has entered, will have a more exalted opinion of its beauties and excellencies than he who has advanced, with all the rapidity that dispensations can furnish, from the lowest to the highest grades of the Order.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In persons shut up from intercourse with their fellow-men, it has manifested itself in the closest attachment to animals; as if the human mind could not exist without some object on which to exercise the feelings intended to bind man to his fellows.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

Third Brigade , Col. Strong Vincent, Col. James C. Rice; 20th Me., Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain; 16th Mich., Col. Norval E. Welch; 44th N. Y., Col. James C. Rice, Lieut.-Col.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

To that end the adversaries had, indeed, applied themselves after the last French failure to obtain any material compensation, not even what M. Rouher called such a rag of territory as Luxemburg.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

Even in Rome he would be comparatively safe, for Rome, she thought, was a very civilised capital, and one man could not easily wait for another in the Villa Borghese as he could at the turning of a lonely Sicilian road.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

This proposition Mary could not entertain willingly.
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

"What think you?" "That you are no murderer, comrade, nor ever will be!" "My lady said as much once!
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

It was agreed that the encore "bull" was to be taken by the horns that week; that no matter what the ovation to Hofmann might be, however the public might clamor, no encore was to be forthcoming; and Bok was to give the public an explanation during the following week.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok