The Perigordian Abbé, Candide and Martin entered; no one rose, no one saluted them, no one looked at them; all were profoundly occupied with their cards.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Neither they, nor Duncan, nor Malcolm, nor even Banquo himself, have been imagined intensely, and therefore they do not produce that sense of unique personality which Shakespeare could convey in a much smaller number of lines than he gives to most of them.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

"Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the smell; walk slowly and speak deliberately, but not in such a way as to make it seem thou art listening to thyself, for all affectation is bad.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Like some sad elephant who stands Fast sinking in the treacherous sands, Thus Báli raised despairing eyes; Then spake again with sobs and sighs: “Not for myself, O King, I grieve, For Tárá or the friends I leave, As for sweet Angad, my dear son, My noble, only little one.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He knew by heart a number of little stories, which he perfectly well knew how to make the most of; relating with an air of secrecy, and as an anecdote of yesterday, what happened sixty years before.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He at once associated with himself L. Ceionius Commodus, whom Antoninus had adopted as a younger son at the same time with Marcus, giving him the name of Lucius Aurelius Verus.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Here age and freshness again play a rôle; in fact, a double rôle, as the older and tougher vegetables contain not only less antiscorbutic, but require more prolonged cooking.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

42 The resentment of the people against Cassius was not of long duration.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In spite of Watson's touching words to him, he did not often let himself think of Phoebe.
— from Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

This soon brought him to the greatest distress, and he was so much reduced as to be in want of the common necessaries of life.
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady

On being told that this was very foolish, and that a captain was entitled to a quiet [Pg 406] commission on all purchases, he began an investigation on his own account and found that it was the rule that naval and army supplies cost the government on an average twenty-five per cent more than they were worth, and that the names of laborers once placed on the payroll remained there for eternity.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Hitherto, with masterly art, he had kept aloof from direct explanations with his pupil; he knew that she would distrust no one like himself.
— from Lucretia — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Yesterday, while at Trowbridge, I received from a sister, from the neighbourhood of London, 1l.
— from A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 2 by George Müller

2 Licentiate Lison de Tejada, a native of Logroño—Judge. 3 Licentiate Alvarez—Judge.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

By satisfying all my fancies my father had created in my nature a need of luxury, and given me habits of self-indulgence of which my own mind, young and artless as it then was, could not perceive either the danger or the tyranny.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The names of "Lecompte," "Thomas" and "Darboy," Paul heard frequently, mentioned by the half drunken and excited crowd.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

In each tree he would find from four to six fat coons, whose fur and flesh he would exchange for gunpowder, tobacco, hard cider, and other necessities of life.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville