Madame Simon did not leave her armchair.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I recognized Signora Roccolini as soon as I saw her, but as twenty years had elapsed since our last meeting she did not wonder at my appearing not to know her, and made no efforts to refresh my memory.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[60] Oh my sister, do not weep now; when our mother-in-law becomes sensible she will again kiss you and with great affection call you “the mad-woman’s daughter.”
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

And so in large towns where this mutual sympathy does not so naturally grow up (for all the townsmen are in a sense neigh
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Sancho took it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the cries of his master exclaiming, "Sancho, my son, drink not water; drink it not, my son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the blessed balsam (and he held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking two drops of it thou wilt certainly be restored."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The money simply did not exist.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I gave them a Louis, but my saint did not look at me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And though Miss Sullivan did not force grammatical completeness upon the first finger-lispings of her pupil, yet when she herself repeated Helen's sentence, "mamma milk," she filled out the construction, completed the child's ellipsis and said, "Mamma will bring Helen some milk.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

"They charge me," he said, "with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
— from Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tsugai hanarénu miyakodori, Hito mo urayaméba wagami mo mata, Sakimidarétaru doté no hana yori mo, Hana ni mo mashita sono hito to Shirahigé-Yashiro
— from Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs by Lafcadio Hearn

Probably when a woman marries a man she does not love, the soul, having no demand made upon it, abstracts itself, sleeps.
— from The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

They must have both asked her hand on the same day, and she must have answered both letters in the same hour; and the letter she intended for the man she loved, went to the man she did not love.
— from The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr

The subsequent results in the direction of output of merchant ships do not properly come within the scope of this book, which is intended to deal only with work during the year 1917, but it may be of interest to give here the output month by month.
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe

The legend above is “ MECUREU s D NT.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

They had me sit down near them, saying that when they met for the purpose of considering a matter, it was their custom to do so at night, that they might not be diverted by anything from attention to the subject in hand; that at night one thought only of listening, while during the day the thoughts were distracted by other objects.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain

That was a question that seemed important, and for the moment she did not know what to say.
— from The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.