" Abyedok, knowing the Captain's weak point, and fond of making other people angry, cunningly adds: "Yes, since the nobility began to make acquaintance with hunger, men have disappeared from the world ..."
— from Creatures That Once Were Men by Maksim Gorky

"Colonel, this is too plain a case, as you see.
— from True To His Colors by Harry Castlemon

The descendant of a long race of mighty soldiers had been publicly pronounced a coward; and yet some day or other, by the inevitable law of nature, he would become the representative of his family.
— from False Evidence by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The interlocutors in these three poems are Coridon, a young shepherd anxious to seek his fortune at court, and the old Cornix, for whom the great world has long lost its glamour.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

This time the envy and malice that are ever provoked by success and power gave voice in that rumour to the thing it hoped, and there ensued as pretty a comedy as you shall find in the pages of history.
— from The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini

"Little friend," I said, "if you'll put a cloak about your shoulders and leave this house with me
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton

Besides this, it is clear that you cannot live in peace and contentment as you say; you might at any moment be recognized and your life forfeited.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

a fire crinkled on the hearth, and Ailsa brought more wine, and Robert Somerville said, “Morgen Fay—and hath she not look of the name?” Brown and dressed poorly and changed, and yet Sir Humphrey Somerville stared.
— from Silver Cross by Mary Johnston

And you are proud and concerned about your standing in that respect?
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"It was you who innoculated me with selfishness, pride, and cruelty, and you shall be their first victim.
— from Venus in Furs by Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von