The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:— “Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money in becoming an honest man.” Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, remained speechless.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

His good-humour being in some degree restored by the vision of Ralph Nickleby swallowing, perforce, a five-shilling piece, Newman slowly brought forth from his desk one of those portable bottles, currently known as pocket-pistols, and shaking the same close to his ear so as to produce a rippling sound very cool and pleasant to listen to, suffered his features to relax, and took a gurgling drink, which relaxed them still more.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But, on the other hand, where feeling is stirred, where the requisite stimulus exists, where the people are in great danger, or allured by the prize of some breathless adventure, the contact produces the spark of divine poetry, the myths are full of artistic, philosophic, and religious suggestiveness, and have abiding significance and charm.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

A peculiar kind of tobacco, grown at Shiraz in Persia, and resembling small pieces of cut leather, is used with this instrument.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

'So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kind of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And though it may appear strange that such a change as produces a relaxation should immediately produce a sudden convulsion; it is yet most certainly so, and so in all the senses.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The artful Mæsa saw and cherished their rising partiality, and readily sacrificing her daughter's reputation to the fortune of her grandson, she insinuated that Bassianus was the natural son of their murdered sovereign.
— 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

I doubt whether Russia has ever produced a really sensible man.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

It is, nevertheless, A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

After the invasion of Belgium, in which he took part, the narrator was transferred to East Prussia, a region similarly devastated.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

There was a space of silence finally disturbed by a noise of boots in an adjoining room and presently Abner Rathbun stumped out.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

From savage pass and rugged shore The noise of angry hosts had fled, The bitter battle raged no more Where fiery bolts had wrought their scars, And where the dying and the dead In many a woeful heap were flung, While night above the Ægean hung Its melancholy maze of stars.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

As he ran on, the confusion on deck seemed to increase, but the lad noted that the vessel did not pitch and roll so much, and she seemed to be on an even keel, and in no immediate danger of going down.
— from Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Victor Appleton

The King of Navarre dissolved in humble protestations and repentant speeches over the assassination of the Constable Charles of Spain.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot

He seldom spoke, but he showed [158] Punch all Rocklington, from the mud-banks and the sand of the back-bay to the great harbours where ships lay at anchor, and the dockyards where the hammers were never still, and the marine-store shops, and the shiny brass counters in the Offices where Uncle Harry went once every three months with a slip of blue paper and received sovereigns in exchange; for he held a wound-pension.
— from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

Paolo, a Roman, scholar of Muziano. Baglione.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

"Bear with patience and resignation," said Glenn, "the dispensations of an all-wise Providence.
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

Peptones are readily soluble, and for this reason are [131] easily absorbed through the walls of the digestive organs.
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 1 of 5 by Eugene Christian

Outside of the Nibelung dramas it brought two absolute novelties to the knowledge of the public and revived several old operas of large historical and artistic significance, which had either never been heard at all in New York, or heard so long ago that all memory of them had faded from the public mind.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel