Pocchini attempted to speak to me, but I replied, lifting my cane,— “Scoundrel, draw your sword, unless you want me to give you a thrashing!”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“In a very simple manner, colonel,” said D’Artagnan.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Following the process of suppression we find the development, either of anxiety alone or of anxiety and symptom development, or finally a more complete symptom development and no anxiety.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“A man could scarcely disappear in a civilised neighbourhood like this,” Mr. Fentolin remarked quietly, “but there is a certain amount of coincidence about your question.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

What more could she do in the midst of so many formidable rivals?
— from The Power of the Popes An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual Authority by P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François) Daunou

Educational effort on this subject may be said to have begun with a masterful presentation of the nature of rehabitation at the meeting of the managing committee six days after the disaster.
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

From her frequent mention of it, quite contrary to her usual custom, one may conclude she did not find it an easy task.
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

The banks, though not high, were cut through the turf and there was only one spot where there was a broken place and a couple of stones where the horses and mules could step down to the stream.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Sierras; Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt

My confidence sensibly declined; my sensitiveness amounted to nervousness; I had half a mind to run away and leave the show entirely to Hipp.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Good-day, my children!" said D'Artagnan to the eager boys.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

If anything were to be accomplished, he must now do it by his own unaided efforts; and since August was well-nigh past, if he were to act at all it must be soon, or the winter storms might come sweeping down, and render his position untenable.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green