“The cardinal will make no objection,” said he, “as Armelline has taken no vows; but as you must know our friend’s mistress before making your request, you have only to tell the cardinal that you would like to see the interior of the house.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

to the number of some hundred and thirty-three.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

execute mal ce qu'on n'a pas concu soi-meme*—words spoken on so high an occasion—are true in their measure of every genuine enthusiasm.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Through their ardour and impetuosity the perception of so heavy a blow did not reach the soldiers; they conquered before they perceived that they conquered without a leader.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

During the hours of school his attention, on these occasions, would be much drawn off from the class-subjects.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And that was the sort of state he arrived in.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In England, women were first permitted to take the public examination in dental surgery as late as 1908; while the Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Irish Royal Colleges of Surgeons had admitted them long before.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

"Here, three of you boys," he ordered, "stay here and hold these prisoners.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

Its author was Henry Neville, of the Nevilles of Billingbeare, son of one Sir Henry and grandson of another, the grandfather having been of some mark in diplomacy and courtiership in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean times.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

Your most obedient, sir," he added, turning towards Kate's companion, whom he did not know personally, but who was really Richard Markham.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The heavy, sensual features of Father Anselmo flushed up with some emotion, whether of anger or of fear it was hard to tell; but he gave one hasty glance at his companion, which, if a glance could kill, would have struck him dead, and then there fell over his countenance, like a veil, an expression of sanctimonious humility, as he replied,— "Thank you for your sympathy, dearest brother.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The interior, originally E.E., was never handsome, and has been ruined artistically by the erection of some huge aisles, with galleries, which have absorbed the transepts.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

It was headlined “Nihilism in Russia,” opened with an account of Siberian horrors, and ended, of course, with somebody’s pills.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

Of servants he asked service unwillingly, and, to the end of his days, with an uneasy sense that somebody was being abased—he inclined to think it was himself.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins