I’m the only unlucky one, to have to sit here on such a day:
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And others, alluding to his death:— Phœbus, to bless mankind, became the father Of Æsculapius, and of god-like Plato; That one to heal the body, this the mind.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And you ought to hear them, and then both just and unjust will have received from us a full payment of the debt which the argument owes to them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"It's one of them horrid telegraph things, mum," she said, handing it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And as for war with Antigonus, if he had become master of only three hundred talents, he would have been able to continue it without any difficulty.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Love, nowadays, at the very most will make a man a good horseman or teach him to choose his tailor.
— from On Love by Stendhal

All was over, and La Rapet calmly put everything back into its place; the broom into the corner by the cupboard the sheet inside it, the saucepan on the hearth, the pail on the floor, and the chair against the wall.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He complained that I ought to have them driven off, and said it was not the duty of the keepers of the fence."
— from The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould

The night went past as a year The social world he looked at did not show him heroes The overwise themselves hoodwink The king without his crown hath a forehead like the clown The curse of sorrow is comparison!
— from Quotes and Images From The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

N. The entrance is between rocks, and within it is so much encumbered with shoals and rocks that it is a small and sorry harbour; but round the point forming the north side of this harbour, there is a good haven and road-stead against the wind at N.W. the land round it being barren sand.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

If ill-nature is a feature in the character of their husbands, they cultivate the same fault in themselves.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

The crowds of grotesque figures which thronged the streets, the picturesque appearance of the horses that were exposed to sale, and the fierce martial aspect of the grenadiers of the old guard, a detachment of whom were quartered in the town, rendered this scene truly characteristic of the French people.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

Sacrificing some of their height to increase their speed, the boat-pilots fell on the enemy line, their bow guns going.
— from The Spider Web: The Romance of a Flying-Boat War Flight by T. D. Hallam

After the first feeling of alarm and disappointment had subsided, Roy plucked up heart and encouraged Nelly by pointing out to her that they had at all events recovered their old track, which they would be very careful not to lose sight of again.
— from Silver Lake by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Whether the little damsel carried her mistress' signet, that everything opened to her thus, I know not; but Marbonna himself, the bearer of infants, could not have been half so serviceable.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville

Thus, with the unanimous approbation of their hearers, the Troubadours framed for themselves a species of poetry describing and inculcating a system of metaphysical affection as inconsistent with nature as the minstrel's tales of magicians and monsters; with this evil to society, that it was calculated deeply to injure its manners and its morals.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott