The voice of the poor lady rang out all at once plaintively, though so sharply that it was startling.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I suspected you were only pretending to stop up your ears.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of projectiles, this square fought on.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

X. And he made his will in the following terms:— “According to this my will, I give all my possessions to Amynomachus, of Bate, the son of Philocrates, and to Timocrates, of Potamos, the son of Demetrius; according to the [430] deed of gift to each, which is deposited in the temple of Cybele; on condition that they make over my garden and all that is attached to it to Hermarchus, of Mitylene, the son of Agemarchus; and to those who study philosophy with him, and to whomsoever Hermarchus leaves as his successors in his school, that they may abide and dwell in it, in the study and practice of philosophy; and I give it also to all those who philosophize according to my doctrines, that they may, to the best of their ability, maintain my school which exists in my garden, in concert with Amynomachus and Timocrates; and I enjoin their heirs to do the same in the most perfect and secure manner that they can; so that they also may maintain my garden, as those also shall to whom my immediate successors hand it down.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Συμπαρακαλέω, ῶ, ( σύν & παρακαλέω ) f. ήσω, 177 to invite, exhort along with others; to animate in company with others; pass. to share in mutual encouragement, Ro. 1.12.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Coercing millions of people to strip off their outer garments and walk barefoot through metal detectors every day is no solution either.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

We now go back to the far East, for the state of Maine, our "Pine Tree" state, has now been developed, and its admission (1820) completes the coast line of states as far south as Georgia.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The Second Book of Esdras 2 Esdr 1:1 The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Helchias, the son of Sadamias, the sou of Sadoc, the son of Achitob, 2 Esdr 1:2 The son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of And he spake unto the of Borith, the son of Abisei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, 2 Esdr 1:3
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Your father and I will do all in our power to set matters right.
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

The steward was about to act on the old principle, that silence gives consent, when Hiram Doolittle, attended by Jotham, stalked out of the crowd, across the open space, and approached the stocks.
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

I'm only puzzled that she's not put on her myrtle-wreath—I suppose nothing has happened?"
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

This case shows that winter is cold: on proposing to start, breakfast was not ready: then a plan was formed to keep me another day at a village close by, belonging to one Kulu, a man of Kauma, to whom we go next.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

And whenever rigid aristocracy in land connects itself with the close control of politics, the subjection becomes final and complete.
— from The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

As one instance, I may mention that one Sunday morning I brought Captain Forbes, who came over with the 'Jamestown,' United States' frigate, and Mr. William Rathbone, and several other persons, to show the state of the neighbourhood in which I resided, and to show them the thousands whom we were feeding at the depôt, While we were going round a person told me, 'There is a house that has been locked up two or three days.'
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

was based upon the theory that the very minutest amount of any given drug, properly dispersed through the human frame, would be productive of precisely the same result as a very large dose administered in the usual manner.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action.
— from National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President