Bonacieux called a long time; but as such cries, on account of their frequency, brought nobody in the Rue des Fossoyeurs, and as lately the mercer’s house had a bad name, finding that nobody came, he went out continuing to call, his voice being heard fainter and fainter as he went in the direction of the Rue du Bac.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In a word, nothing is thought rightly done if without Abelard's approbation.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

The next day she took advantage of a moment when the child was asleep on her bed, (for they always slept together), gently left the door a little way open, and ran to tell a neighbor in the Rue de la Séchesserie, that the day would come when her daughter Agnes would be served at table by the King of England and the Archduke of Ethiopia, and a hundred other marvels.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Nero was succeeded by Galba 642 , who was not in the remotest degree allied to the family of the Caesars, but, without doubt, of very noble extraction, being descended from a great and ancient family; for he always used to put amongst his other titles, upon the bases of his statues, his being great-grandson to Q. Catulus Capitolinus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

On looking about, we discovered that the mosquito nets in the room diagonal to Wirgman's had been cut to pieces, the occupants having escaped.
— 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

[“Do not, if turbulent Rome disparage anything, accede; nor correct a false balance by that scale; nor seek anything beyond thyself.” —Persius, Sat., i. 5.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

How narrow-minded to see nothing in the rising desires of a young heart but obstacles to the teaching of reason.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Twice I passed by her only to fall back, and each time as I passed by I felt this sensation, as of scorching heat, which I had noticed in the Rue de la Paix.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Say (for I know not), is their race divine,
— from The Iliad by Homer

The other part spent the night in the rooms dead drunk, with disastrous consequences to the velvet sofas and the floor.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A most interesting and, indeed, wonderful thing in the recent history of the Netherlands is the rapid development of the Flemish littoral from a waste of sand, with here and there a paltry fishing hamlet and two or three small towns, into a great cosmopolitan pleasure resort.
— from Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond

His advice was to the effect that Brandt should keep aloof from the king; and that Brandt did not, in the remotest degree, expect Count Struensee's assent, or subsequent approval, in this affair, is seen from the fact that he not only previously kept secret the way in which he had resolved to go to work, as he merely said "that he would demand an explanation of the king," but that, afterwards, he also concealed the most aggravating portions of his deed,—the circumstance with the riding-whip; his bolting the door; and the challenging and abusive language which he employed.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

“Not in the remotest degree.”
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

"The specific measures enacted by Philip Dru as Administrator of the nation, indicated the reforms desired by House.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

2 This portrait is at the Bibliothèque Nationale in the Recueil de Portraits au crayon by Clouet, Dumonstier, &c. (fol. 88).
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

He was living now in the Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin.
— from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The english convent, or as it is called, the convent of blue nuns, in the Rue de St. Victoire, is the only establishment of the kind, which throughout the republic, has survived the revolution.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

55 We may add, that neither in the Theætêtus nor in the Republic, do we find indication that either of them is intended as the first of a Trilogy: the marks 326 proving an intended Trilogy are only found in the second and third of the series.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Nor is the reason difficult to determine.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Various