Yesterday I learned that, forgetful of his pledge to me, he was about to marry another, and that he was to go this morning to plight his troth, intelligence which overwhelmed and exasperated me; my father not being at home I was able to adopt this costume you see, and urging my horse to speed I overtook Don Vicente about a league from this, and without waiting to utter reproaches or hear excuses I fired this musket at him, and these two pistols besides, and to the best of my belief I must have lodged more than two bullets in his body, opening doors to let my honour go free, enveloped in his blood.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When I look at its broad shadow, and remember what it was in his time, it helps me to the age of my other work, and I can tell you pretty nearly when I made his grave.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

So from that time on, many have put up statues of Persians supporting entablatures and their ornaments, and thus from that motive have greatly enriched the diversity of their works.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

At all seasons of his history he must have felt, among such people, how, if he explained to them the deeper insight he had, they must either have shuddered aghast at it, or believing it, their own little compact hypothesis must have gone wholly to wreck.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

One town alone, containing 52,000 bighas (about 15,000 acres) of rich land, is thus lost; and by such follies Mewar has gradually sunk to her present extreme poverty.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

As I knew the geography of the Tomb of the Lovers, as well as if I had lived twenty years in Lyons, namely, that it was upon the turning of my right hand, just without the gate, leading to the Fauxbourg de Vaise—I dispatched Francois to the boat, that I might pay the homage I so long ow'd it, without a witness of my weakness—I walk'd with all imaginable joy towards the place—when I saw the gate which intercepted the tomb, my heart glowed within me— —Tender and faithful spirits!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The use of myrrh as incense at the festival of Adonis may have given rise to the fable.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Original It was not easy to hold that pace among the graves, and at another time he might have gone more slowly, or round by the path.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Governor Shanks proceeds: The prestige acquired (by the uprising) at San Pedro Tunasan, Paranaque, Taal, and San Francisco de Malabon had great weight in creating active sympathy for ladrone bands and leaders.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Mein Herz gleicht ganz dem
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Very special care was, therefore, devoted to the whole of the arrangements, first for carefully ascertaining beforehand the actual or probable position of every enemy gun that could be brought to bear on our Infantry, and then for allocating as many heavy guns as could be spared, each with a task appropriate to its range and hitting-power, to the destruction or suppression of the selected target.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

His introduction of diapers and other conventional designs in pierced and perforated work come straight from the Sheffield silver platers, and this style of ornamentation done in the same county as Sheffield, at the Leeds pottery, was carried to its extreme limit by Messrs. Hartley Green & Co., who became the most successful imitators of Wedgwood's cream ware, about the year 1783.
— from Chats on Old Sheffield Plate by Arthur Hayden

It was Jessie McIntyre, his great-grandchild, who had captured the heart of young Desbra.
— from Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

He had taken Lois' hand without hesitation and the painful uneasiness which had at first marked his manner had given place to a certain grave, decided dignity.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

And truly I should have thought he might have gone ahead of anything, or anybody, if he could have carried 'em home.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

How that none ere touched its strand, without rendering instant tribute of a nap; how that those who thither voyaged, in golden quest of golden gourds, fast dropped asleep, ere one was plucked; waking not till night; how that you must needs rub hard your eyes, would you wander through the isle; and how that silent specters would be met, haunting twilight groves, and dreamy meads; hither gliding, thither fading, end or purpose none.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

well dat he not get anoder like her bery soon, and so he tells de trader dat de niggar 'pear bery well, but as for de real work, he got a dozen dat go ahead ob her, and if de gemman want de real workin' niggar, dey step round de oder side de plantation; but de trader, he keep his eye on Phillis, like he understand de business too well to be put off dat way, and he say to massa, tell you what 'tis, mister, dat gal may not hab de genuine work 'bout her now, but if she get tinder old Killall's lash, dar be no trouble bout dat, and den when she good for notin' else, after de work all out ob her, she might keep a little ob her looks, 'nough to make her go for a hundred or so.
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

He looked at the Justice's mouth, thinking that his teeth must have grown again, he spoke fluently and decidedly as he never had done before.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

In the course of time, the hymnal literature of the great temples of Babylonia must have grown to large proportions, and, in collecting them, some system was certainly followed by the priests engaged in this work.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

When he called at Mr. Mavick's office he learned that Mr. Mavick had gone to the Pacific coast, and that he would probably be absent several weeks.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner