We slept together every night, not excepting those nights forbidden by the laws of Moses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You talk about standing—maybe there isn't much in mechanical engineering, but the Miners, gee, they got seven out of eleven in the new elections to Nu Tau Tau!”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The inquisitive Philelphus, who resided in Greece about thirty years before the siege, is confident, that all the Turkish forces of any name or value could not exceed the number of sixty thousand horse and twenty thousand foot; and he upbraids the pusillanimity of the nations, who had tamely yielded to a handful of Barbarians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Master was not on the nine o'clock train, nor even the nine-thirty.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

That Socrates stood in close relationship to Euripides in the tendency of his teaching, did not escape the notice of contemporaneous antiquity; the most eloquent expression of this felicitous insight being the tale current in Athens, that Socrates was accustomed to help Euripides in poetising.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As to the precise manner, however, in which such a book had to be written, I already had a very definite and instinctive notion, and I was strengthened in the certainty of my own feelings in the matter when Laube now explained the nature of his plot to me.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

PRIESTLEY, Dr., riot against, naturalised, elected to National Convention.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

and why so, when WE were not expected till night?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Christie needed encouragement that night, and found it in the hearty welcome that greeted her, and the full house, which proved how kind a regard was entertained for her by many who knew her only by a fictitious name.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 191] II Perhaps someone will ask whether, in interpreting totemism thus, we do not endow the native with ideas surpassing the limits of his intellect.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Tasso's proud spirit could not endure the neglect of his once ardent friend, and he set out again into the cold inhospitable world, imploring in his great poverty from a former patron the loan of ten scudi, to pay the expenses of his journey to Rome.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

Fifteen or twenty years afterwards, Clarence King used to amuse him by mourning over the narrow escape that nature had made in attaining perfection.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

All the molecules are supposed to be arranged with like ends pointing in the same direction, positive ends facing the positively-charged plate and negative ends the negatively-charged one.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

In it are to be found these words, which show that the importance of the question of international coinage had not escaped the notice of the Prince:—'The different weights, measures, and currencies, in which different statistics are expressed, cause further difficulties and impediments.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

We made sail to the southward on Sunday night, and saw nothing except two neutral vessels.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

This circumstance did not escape the notice of the Emperor.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various