LYNDON As my uncle’s attainder was not reversed for being out with the Pretender in 1745, it would have been inconvenient for him to accompany his nephew to the land of our ancestors; where, if not hanging, at least a tedious process of imprisonment, and a doubtful pardon, would have awaited the good old gentleman.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

When Zarathustra had said this the dying one did not reply further; but he moved his hand as if he sought the hand of Zarathustra in gratitude. 7.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I truly believe,” answered the marchioness, “that he does not remain far behind you; but,” added she with flattery, “you are more dainty in your tastes.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I had not ridden far, but I was discovered, and two or three parties of horse, from various places, were sent out to seize me; one of them overtook me on the third day, and I was attacked by fifteen or twenty gentlemen in vizors, followed at a distance by a band of foot-soldiers.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Afanasiev, Alexander Nicolaievitsh, Russian folklorist, born in 1826.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

There is no reason for being neater in Paris than in the country.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Because things are not agreeable,” said Jean Valjean, “that is no reason for being unjust towards God.” A silence ensued.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

With the present stem in a nasalized root followed by -o | e- ( 831 ). com-pingō , fix together com-pingere com-pēgī com-pāctus A compound of pangō ( 925 , 823 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Some of these people have even expressly declared that the soul possesses no reasoning faculty, but that we are led like cattle by the impression of our senses, and are unable to refuse or dissent from anything.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Since he can think you are neglecting him, lose no time in repairing the wrongs which are not real," for "Bonaparte loves you like his own child, which adds much to my affection for him."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Even in the best-trained temper there may remain some leaven of the old Adam; and I know not whether it is this or a better spirit that maketh my brother Joshua determine, that though he will not resist force by force, neither will he yield up his right to mere threats, or encourage wrong to others by yielding to menaces.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

The stomach, not receiving food, began to ache and cramp.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

They had no reverence for Bel, no belief in the claim of Babylon to confer a title of legitimacy on the sovereign of western Asia.
— from Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

I have no reverence for barbarism, no matter how ancient it may be, and no reverence for the savagery of the Old Testament; no reverence for the malice of the New.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

At which she could not refrain from bursting into tears.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

He was now ready for breakfast, and his appetite grew as he heard how the crowd hooted and snarled yah!
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

I was not really frightened, but I cannot deny that I felt very nervous, as he came up, and, in an inquisitorial tone, asked, "What are you doing here?"
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

They entered into the case with no revengeful feelings, but held firmly to their course, mindful of the rights of the defendants, but determined to maintain law and justice.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

The loss she experienced in January, 1720, of the Cardinal de la Tremoille, although there was no real friendship between them, did not fail, to create a void in her.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Eliaskuli, who dwelt in the fourth tent from mine on the banks of the Görgen, was a "retired" Turkoman, who, up to his thirtieth year, had carried on the usual profession of kidnapping and pillaging, and had now retired from business, in order, as he said, to spend the rest of this futile, ridiculous life (fani dünya) here below in the pious exercise of the law; as far as I know, however, it is because several shot wounds of the "hellish" weapons at Ashurada prevented him from carrying on any longer his infamous trade.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry