"From which (remote) places, what high character of him (could have reached) to the Sabines, or by what intercourse of language could such high character of him have aroused any one to become a pupil?"
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

"Evgenii Vasiliev," replied the other in slow, but virile, accents as, turning down the collar of his coat, he revealed his face more clearly.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He gave a private audience to the ambassadors, who, in the name of the senate and people, conjured him to deliver Rome from a detested tyrant; and without regarding the timid remonstrances of his council, he resolved to prevent the enemy, and to carry the war into the heart of Italy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Mr. Heathcliff is not a fiend: he has an honourable soul, and a true one, or how could he remember her?’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

When he was congratulated by the Major on the triumph of his constitution, he replied, with a groan, “I would to heaven it had been otherwise, for I am reserved for all the horrors of the most poignant sorrow and remorse.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The big assessor had dropped his eyelids, and drummed on without a sound, careless and mournful; the eyes of the other above the sunburnt, clasped fingers seemed to glow with kindliness; the magistrate had swayed forward; his pale face hovered near the flowers, and then dropping sideways over the arm of his chair, he rested his temple in the palm of his hand.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

what good form was came out at once because he turned round to the donor and thanked him with perfect aplomb , saying: Thank you, sir , though in a very different tone of voice from the ornament of the legal profession whose headgear Bloom also set to rights earlier in the course of the day, history repeating itself with a difference, after the burial of a mutual friend when they had left him alone in his glory after the grim task of having committed his remains to the grave.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The gentleman who was thus recovered, with great sense of gratitude and acknowledgment owned the cure all his life after, as the greatest obligation he could have received; but, whatever gratitude and reason suggested to him, he could never bear the sight of the operator: that image brought back with it the idea of that agony which he suffered from his hands, which was too mighty and intolerable for him to endure.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

At this time, Casanova was revising, or had completed his revision of, the twelve volumes.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The Consciousness of her Charms has rendered her insupportably Vain and Insolent, towards all who have to do with her.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Or, how can he reward a virtuous deed, Which is not done by us, but first decreed?
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

In lending out his capital, he realises five per cent more upon that.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Thus uncorrupted by precedents, he discovered a new way of drawing and exhibiting his pictures; and in the manifold variety of his relation to the world, from his love and the faith in it, which at the same time was his instructress, wisdom, and religion, since through them a single great moment of life, and one deep grief and loss became the essence of his poesy and of his contemplation, he resembles among late writers the sublime Dante alone, and like him sings to us an unfathomable mystical song, very different from that of many imitators, who think, that they can assume and lay aside mysticism as they could a mere ornament.
— from Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Novalis

'There's more stuff' in you,' he seemed to say, 'than ever I had thought.' “Because of his servin' of his country,” he remarked aloud.
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

From the day of his cadetship he received the sobriquet and was always thereafter designated familiarly by his more intimate friends as Baldy Smith in contradistinction from other officers of the same patronymic.
— from Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War by James Harrison Wilson

In his restless mood he sought to occupy himself, and, nothing else offering, he cleared his rough counter of glasses, plunged them into a bucket of filthy water, and set them out to drain.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

When defeated by the undermining and contemptible art of his rivals; when convinced that it was impossible for him, to employ his abilities with success in the service of his country, he retired.
— from Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

The youth found no difficulty in becoming a regular and happy man; in the arms of his wife and the circle of his children, he reflected on his wild youth only as a feverish dream.
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

With the guilelessness of the Oriental he considered himself responsible for his master in all future times.
— from Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath