Your Highness told me I should post before.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

At that moment I saw Petronio going by, and availing myself of a moment when the officer was talking to someone, I told him not to appear to be acquainted with me, but to tell me where he lived.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For one thing, a country jury is not anxious to take responsibility upon itself, and Mr. Inglethorp stands practically in the position of local squire.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Large or small retailers may import some pieces directly from London, Paris, or Constantinople, but even the most important retailers buy heavily from the great Armenian wholesalers in New York City.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Seeing that her thoughts were elsewhere, Cecil bent towards Lucy and said: “To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, portentous.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Meanwhile I smile prettily at you, after the fashion of a stage dancer executing the final pirouette which has exhausted her strength and left her breathless.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It would not only have been the loss of a most important strategic position to us, but it would have been attended with the loss of all the artillery still left with the Army of the Cumberland and the annihilation of that army itself, either by capture or demoralization.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Mais il se peut dans ce cas qu'il soit concurrencé par d'autres types de matières souples présentant des qualités de robustesse et d'agrément tactile équivalente ou supérieure.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They months in State prison.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

623 Such foolish critics are just as ready to pour out their opinions on a man in St. Paul's cathedral as in the bookseller's shops in the square around the church, which is called St. Paul's churchyard.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

"It is a spot beyond imagination Delightful to the heart, where roses bloom, And sparkling fountains murmur—where the earth Is rich with many-colored flowers; and musk Floats on the gentle breezes, hyacinths And lilies add their perfume—golden fruits Weigh down the branches of the lofty trees, The glittering pheasant moves in stately pomp, The bulbul warbles from the cypress bough, And love-inspiring damsels may be seen O'er hill and dale, their lips all winning smiles, Their cheeks like roses—in their sleepy eyes Delicious languor dwelling.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

They went down the river in boats provided for the purpose, and with banners flying and music playing, marched in solemn procession through the streets of Lyons, and up the steep sides of Fourrière, until they reached the church of Notre Dame.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Make it short, please.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

A man is standing pasting together bags made of old newspaper.
— from Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The air of this latitude of Mars is so pure, vivid and dustless!
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

( to KALAF , confidentially )— Believe me, if so please your Majesty— (I mean your Majesty that is to be.)
— from Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx by Friedrich Schiller

Invention, poetry, music, artistic taste and originality are occasionally of a high order, and the memory is sometimes phenomenal; but desultory, half-finished work, and shiftlessness are the rule.
— from Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs

He followed [Pg 324] the Hau-Hau trail for some distance, and then scattered his men in small parties as he guessed that the enemy would scatter in search of food.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Stubbs was attired in the common garb of sailor men, and I perceived that it must indeed seem passing strange to the Spaniards, of all people the stiffest on decorum and punctilio, to see a grave student of medicine in familiar converse with a man so meanly habited.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang