The captivity of his “beloved wife and only son” are mentioned with exultation as causing him poignant misery: the death of any near friend is triumphantly recorded as a new blow on his sensibilities; but the treachery and desertion of many of his followers, in whose affections he had confided, is said to have desolated his heart and to have bereaved him of all further comfort.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

When the meal was ended Anne came out of her reverie and offered to wash the dishes.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It is a very strong place and well provided with everything, which it principally owes to Micipsa, who established a colony of Greeks in it, and raised it to such importance, that it was capable of sending out 10,000 cavalry and twice as many infantry.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Noticing, however, that Mihailov was expecting a criticism of the picture, he said: “Your picture has got on a great deal since I saw it last time; and what strikes me particularly now, as it did then, is the figure of Pilate.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The “might” was even a chillier horror than the ghostly laughter, it so confessed a perishing hope.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The chief mate was everywhere, and commanded the ship when the captain was below.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

It allows him to mingle with exterminations and carnages, but it does not permit him to die, because it wishes him to relate them.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The corruptions of mortality, which encumber and cloud the human intellect, hide it, as with a thick veil, from mortal eyes.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In the afternoon we went out for a walk in the Shinsai-bashi Suji, which is the principal street of the city, preceded by a small band of one-sworded men, who emitted a cry like a crow— kau, kau —to warn the people out of the way.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

[It is like men, who employ a certain obscure language among themselves.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

MacBrien was educated at Cambridge, and doubtless conformed, as he remained Bishop till 1612.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

"I also feel confident a man who enjoys a challenge as much as you do will find our undertaking . . .
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

Additional ropes were added to those already cutting into my wrists, elbows and chest, and the others made tighter.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

The art was first practised in England, in the year 1557, when a manufactory was erected at Crutched Friars, in the city of London, and shortly afterwards, another at the Savoy, in the Strand.
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen

Some projects, like DOI: The Digital Identifier System, an identification system for digital media, will enable automated copyright management systems.
— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

But with all his quickness of feeling, his manners were easy and courteous, simply because his nature was warm and kindly, and with all his natural fastidiousness there was nothing of the coxcomb about him.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He looked at me with eyes as clear and honest as a child's.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

Before Captain Hamber took to journalism he had become known as having been the man who enrolled and commanded the German Legion during the Crimean War.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

He was not without hopes that this last effort of Lord Montreville would effect a change in his favour; and he pleaded again for an elopement with the warmest eloquence of love.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

Here they danced and amused themselves as before, and being rejoined by the cavalcade at the Bourg they moved on by Les Brulliots, and passing Torteval Church arrived at a house called the Château des Pezeries at Pleinmont, where a marquee was erected, and cold meats and wine were prepared for the gentlemen.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir