When the fit of laughter that had seized him at Tíkhon’s words and smile had passed and Pétya realized for a moment that this Tíkhon had killed a man, he felt uneasy.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If you do not pay, you will break your promise, and probably resort to a falsehood.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, terminated with these lines:— “Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be feared from these people.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At length the antagonism between the popular and philosophical religion, never so great among the Greeks as in our own age, disappeared, and was only felt like the difference between the religion of the educated and uneducated among ourselves.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Some of these handkerchiefs used to be, in the palmy days of pugilism and professional rowing on the Thames, very fine specimens of work; but as their purveyors expected to be paid whether they won or lost, and as the price was generally about four times the intrinsic value, colours are rather shyly dealt with now.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Even at the present day both public and private recitations of the Epics and Purāṇas are common in India, and are always instituted for the edification and religious instruction of worshippers in temples or of members of the family.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

At this period all Paris resounded with the wonderful adventures of the Count de St. Germain; and a company of waggish young men tried the following experiment upon its credulity: A clever mimic, who, on account of the amusement he afforded, was admitted into good society, was taken by them, dressed as the Count de St. Germain, into several houses in the Rue du Marais.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The Protestant and philosophic readers of the present age will incline to believe, that in the account of his own conversion, Constantine attested a wilful falsehood by a solemn and deliberate perjury.
— 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

Sé cuándo dar un paso atrás para reconocer los errores que pude haber cometido con este instrumento y para prevenir de su mal uso evitando el síndrome del ex-combatiente.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

at 11 oClock brought too a Small Caissee in which was two french men, from 80 Leagues up the Kansias R. where they wintered, and Cought a great quantity of Beaver, the greater part of which they lost by fire from the Praries, those men inform that the Kansas Nation are now out in the plains hunting Buffalow, they hunted last winter on this river Passed a projecting rock on which was painted a figue and a Creek at 2 ms. above Called Little Manitou Creek from the Painted rock this Creek 20 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Struck with pity to see in so sad a plight a person recently so prosperous, he could not but walk along with her to hear her story.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

The instances where some ambitious matron has sought to assume the control of the little military [Pg 21] bailiwick known as "the garrison" are numerous indeed, but the fingers of one hand are too many to keep tally of the cases of prolonged and peaceful reign.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

Alison was too much in a whirl with her own triumph to take any special satisfaction from Peggy’s praise, and Peggy realized how right Rita had been.
— from Peggy Goes Straw Hat by Virginia Hughes

At this instant the talk in the dining room fell flat, and looking up William Wetherell perceived a portly, rubicund man of middle age being shown to his seat by the headwaiter.
— from Coniston — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

The police cruiser which had been summoned was not in sight by the time Mr. Parker and Penny reached the Blake home.
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

But if the Support Group takes a systematic and active approach toward considering the concerns of each country, we believe that each can be encouraged to play a positive role in Iraq and the region.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

As soon, howsoever, as I heard them sleeping, and playing on the pipes through their noses, I cried first “Tommy,” and syne “Benjie,” to be sure; and, glad to receive no answer from either, I went to the aumrie and took out a mutton-bone, gey sair pyked, but fleshy enough at the mouse end; and, putting a penny row beside it, crap out to the coal-house on my tiptaes.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir