They saw in him a representative--the kind of representative they wanted--and he saw in them the most formidable array of judges he could ever meet, like so many mirrors of himself, an infinite reflection of his own shortcomings.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Immediately the pain abated, the beast ceased from his frantic kicking, and, after the manner of horses, as if resting from his weariness, he rolled from side to side, and then starting up, perfectly recovered, began to graze hungrily on the green herbage.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Next day, after I had breakfasted and duly embraced my brother, I set out in a nice carriage with the Abbe Alfani, Le Duc preceding me on horseback, and I reached Naples at a time when everybody was in a state of excitement because an eruption of Vesuvius seemed imminent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For one thing we don't know how much of her attention it requires.
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

At this moment I forgot all my suffering, my shame, my ruin, the irreparable conduct of Juliette and remembered only our brief moments of happiness, and I rebelled against the injustice of being separated from my well-beloved.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

There were also many other things, some real and others counterfeit, which exceeded in the case of this young man the usual measure of human admiration, in reliance on which the state intrusted him with an affair of so much difficulty, and with so important a command, at an age by no means ripe for it.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

Quality has reference to the kind of the voice in respect of its smoothness or roughness, sonority or thinness, musicalness or harshness; also in respect of the completeness of its vocality.
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education

One piece of news I have heard to-day from Miss Goldsmid, that the Jews are certain now to gain their point and be admitted to the House of Commons; for my part, I hold that every one has a claim to his civil rights, were he Mahometan or Hindoo, and I rejoice that poor old Sir Isaac, the real author of the movement, will probably live to see it accomplished.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

It is a clear-blue message of hope, as it rings out on a cold winter’s day.
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

This is a matter of history; and if rumour is to be believed, a similar experience in connection with the visit of an Oriental potentate has occurred in very recent years.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

I remember that whenever I met an outpouring of the heart in another, and opened my own heart affectionately in response, a kind of irresistible, rebellious pride, which should have been broken as a stone with a pickaxe, froze my heart and bound the words on my lips.
— from Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is a matter of great importance just now that he should be our faithful ally, so we make much of him, and I rather look to our interview with him next November.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

The Government sent Sylvain Pons to Rome to make a great musician of himself; and in Rome Sylvain Pons acquired a taste for the antique and works of art.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac