This disposition has ever made me employ so much care, use so many precautions, such secrecy in my adventures, that all of them have failed; in a word, my want of success with the women has ever proceeded from having loved them too well.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

D’Artagnan concealed himself in his closet; Milady called, undressed, sent away Kitty, and shut the door.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But, as there was cholera at St. Louis, on application, I was permitted to delay joining my company until September.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

We may run through the persons whom we remember to have conversed with, or we may call up successively all the books we have lately been reading.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The soldier tapped at the pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him: ‘Be so kind as to fetch me the small bundle I have left lying in the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

To whom these most adhere, Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire sits, And by decision more imbroiles the fray By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter Chance governs all.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

B efore we proceed, we must clearly understand some terms which are used in war.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

"So you must cheer up," said Mrs. Christmas, blithely, when Nelly had gone; "you must cheer up, and do great things, my dear."
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

It may cause us some surprise, then, to read: '
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

He said: "The gentleman from Illinois, some twenty times in the course of his eloquent speech this morning, called upon some one to tell him where Congress gets the power to enact such a law as this.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

I tried, convulsively, to hold the tree up, but it was too late; a sudden gust of air swept by, and down it rushed, with a roar like a whirlwind, and leaving my cousin untouched, struck me full across the loins, broke my backbone, and pinned me to the ground in mortal agony.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

At Venosa one thinks of Roman legionaries fleeing from Hanni- Moving Southwards 65 bal, of Horace, of Norman ambitions; Lucera and Manfredonia call up Saracen memories and the ephemeral gleams of Hohen-staufen; Gargano takes us back into Byzantine mysticism and monkery.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

But I was wrong in my man, for he was none of that kind; he had taken me up as in distress, and his business was to keep me so, and make his market of me as well as he could, which I began to think of after a different manner than I did at first, for at first I thought he had entertained me in mere charity, upon seeing my distressed circumstances, but did not doubt but when he put me on board the ship, I should have some wages for my service.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

"Dear Oliver, you must cheer up," she said, softly.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.