She spoke with difficulty, and I perceived that she regretted the necessity of death, even more than she cared to confess.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Five months ago I separated myself entirely from the family, and no one dared enter my room except at stated times, to clean and tidy it, and so on, and to bring me my meals.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Elliston was the nephew of Dr. Elliston, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, who sent him to St. Paul's School—not, however, that founded by Colet—but to St. Paul's School, Covent Garden.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

He did not believe a word about the proposed cession of Savoy and Nice; no one did, except Mazzini and his few disciples.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

[Pg 230] the arrival of this new Ottoman deus ex machina , grows almost lyrical in his praise.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Not only did every man of that section pack a gun, but Crawford, himself, packed one, thus proving himself either a malicious liar or an imbecile.
— from The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence Edward Mulford

During this year Robertson carried on some correspondence with the Spanish governor at New Orleans, Don Estevan Miro.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

THAT THE VOTE FOR CANDIDATES FOR UNITED STATES SENATORS SHALL BE AN ADVISORY VOTE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASCERTAINING THE SENTIMENT OF THE VOTERS IN THE RESPECTIVE SENATORIAL AND ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS IN THE RESPECTIVE PARTIES, and the Senatorial and Assembly nominees shall be at liberty to vote either for the choice of such district expressed at said primary election, or for the candidate for United States Senator who shall have received the endorsement of such primary election in the greater number of districts electing members of his party to the Legislature."
— from Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 by Franklin Hichborn

And “tell” it did, for not only did England make it a household ballad, but France and Germany and Italy, even, engrafted it upon their popular anthology, while here, in the New World, we bear its odd burden,— Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Stitch, stitch, stitch, and Work, work, work, not more in our memories than in our hearts.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

137 But never once did Eunice moan or give a cry of pain.
— from The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires; Or, The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Laura Dent Crane

On the frontier, not only did every man of spirit expect now and then to be called on to engage in a duel, but he also had to make up his mind to take occasional part in bloody street-fights.
— from Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

The nuns of Dorstad earned money by taking pupils from outside the precincts [1021] , and other houses, among them that of Neuwerk, received girls and boarded and educated them.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein