‘Now, Helen,’ said he emphatically, half rising from his recumbent posture, ‘if you bother me with another word, I’ll ring the bell and order six bottles of wine, and, by heaven, I’ll drink them dry before I stir from this place!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Notwithstanding, he stuck to his regt., and was one of the gallant few who repulsed the grand charge of cavalry in the cornfield at Waterloo.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Not having seen her for six years, he might be mistaken.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Yet, before abandoning the railroad, it was necessary that he should repair damages already done, and hold the road until he could get forward such supplies, ordnance stores and small rations, as he wanted to carry with him on his proposed march, and to return to the north his surplus artillery; his object being to move light and to have no more artillery than could be used to advantage on the field.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But, true it is, from France there comes a power Into this scatter’d kingdom; who already, Wise in our negligence, have secret feet In some of our best ports, and are at point To show their open banner.—Now to you: If on my credit you dare build so far To make your speed to Dover, you shall find Some that will thank you making just report Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

The King did make a short, silly speech, which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now, he said, he did believe would be sufficient, because there was peace between his neighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the Commons; and that he was sorry for what he heard of difference between the two Houses, but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a way of accommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and then recollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker he is.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The conceptions of pure reason—we do not here speak of the possibility of them—are not obtained by reflection, but by inference or conclusion.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

For that is necessary to produce a new idea of reflection, nor can the mind, by revolving over a thousand times all its ideas of sensation, ever extract from them any new original idea, unless nature has so framed its faculties, that it feels some new original impression arise from such a contemplation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Not half so swift the rattling thunder flies, Or forky lightnings flash along the skies.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The winter at its commencement in November [he says] was very mild and was so until December 20, the vigil of St. Thomas the apostle, without either cold or frost in the mornings.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Years ago, in his famous oration on the True Glory of Nations, he set forth the advantages of a pacific policy, with arguments as cogent and irresistible as those which have been employed by Mr. Cobden, and with an eloquence of language and a fertility of illustration which revived the oratory of classic times.…
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

He had meant it; he must have meant it, or he would not have spoken to her in such a strain.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

All that night she lay awake—awake to the child memories of the life that until now had slumbered within her.
— from The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

While Kuni's gaze still rested upon him as if spellbound, Cyriax nudged her, stammering hurriedly: "They will have to pass us.
— from In the Blue Pike — Complete by Georg Ebers

"They are splendid little boats, are they not?" he said.
— from Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick

As the clock struck the appointed hour, a red, jovial face, unrelieved by the heavy moustache which the novelist has since assumed, a broad, high forehead, and a perfectly Micawber-like expanse of shirt-collar and front appeared above the red baize box, and a full, sonorous voice rang out the words, “ Marley-was-dead-to-begin-with ”—then paused, as if to take in the character of the audience.
— from Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

Thomson, of the Indian Civil Service, Bombay Presidency, 85 ; joined Lieutenant Plumer, 86 - 87 Moulmein, 133 , 151 , 157 , 158 , 211 Mozo, 298 Mu River, 71 ; Valley line, 338 Mueng Fai, Siamese district of, 216 Mwebingyi, Chief of, 320 Mwelpi, 331 Myat Hmon, 33 , 60 Myauk-Kodaung, 280 Myélat (central division, Shan States), 142 , 149 - 150 ; submission of, 151 , 153 , 166 Myinmu, 64 Myingun Prince, 31 , 84 , 214 Myingyan, 8 , 31 , 63 , 83 , 92 , 99 , 102 , 110 , 113 , 116 , 301 Myinzaing Prince, 140 , 141 , 147 Myitkyina Railway, 246 Myitson, 269 Myittha River, 293 , 311 Myoôk, township officers and members of subordinate Civil Service, 162 Myotha, 237 Myothit, 32 , 117 Myo-thugyi Town Mayor of Pakokku, 63 ; mother of, visited by Sir Charles Crosthwaite, 63 Myowun, City Governor of Mandalay, 76 N Naga Cachar, 287 Nagpur, 19 Nam Pilu River, 152 Nam Hkok Myoza, 169 Namhsan, 177 , 178 Namkham, route for traders, 75 , 285 Nam Nyim River, 157 Nam Pang River, 223 Nam Teng Valley, 223 Namthein River (affluent of Uyu), 253 Nang Mya, niece of Mawkmai chief, Né Noi, 217 Nang U, marriages, 144 Nankathe River, 321 ; tribe, Trans-, 322 Nanpapa, 261 , 266 Nanti, 241 Napawng River, 251 Natmauk, 116 Natogyi, 83 Naungmawn (brother of Möngpawn), 155 Naw Hpa, Sawbwa of Hsenwi, 139 , 140 , 146 ; submits to British Government, 147 , 160 , 166 , 169 , 173 Naw Möng, son of Naw Hpa, 139 , 140 , 146 ; submits to British Government, 147 , 160 , 166 , 169 , 173 , 176 - 179 Nawng Wawn Myoza, 169 Naylor, C.S.I., C.I.E., Mr. Henry Todd, of the Indian Civil Service, 55 ; as Financial Commissioner of Burma, 55 ; sent to take charge of Magwè District, 120 , 121 Negrais, Cape, 287 Neinsin, 284 Né Noi, the Kolan or nine-fathom Sawbwa, 217
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

I never heard such exquisite spoken sounds in my life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Napoleon, however, steadily refused to withdraw his forces from the States of the Church and to allow Victor Emmanuel to occupy Rome.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly