But at the instant he died, Prince Andrew remembered that he was asleep, and at the very instant he died, having made an effort, he awoke.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At night the father returned, and scolded the wife for not sending his dinner as usual; but the poor woman (who all day had quieted her fears with the belief that the children had stayed with their father), instead of paying any regard to his angry words, demanded, in a tone of agony, what had become of her children?
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Hence the slightest privileges are repugnant to his reason; the faintest dissimilarities in the political institutions of the same people offend him, and uniformity of legislation appears to him to be the first condition of good government.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Of the power of his memory, for which he was all his life eminent to a degree almost incredible, the following early instance was told me in his presence at Lichfield, in 1776, by his step-daughter, Mrs. Lucy Porter, as related to her by his mother.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The King, as soon as he heard the tale, ordered the Lion to be set free again in the forest, and the Shepherd to be pardoned and restored to his friends.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

“Very true,” said Dupin, as he supplied his visiter with a pipe, and rolled towards him a comfortable chair.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

He had made them spacious 126 and fair to see, with a free run for the pigs all round them; he had built them during his master's absence, of stones which he had gathered out of the ground, without saying anything to Penelope or Laertes, and he had fenced them on top with thorn bushes.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Patriotism, accordingly, regrets that his zeal seems to be getting cool.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Abbeokuta had taken side with Ijaye, but at the last battle, which took place on the 5th of June, his people are reported to have suffered severely.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

Chief-justice Oliver was questioned upon this point, and replied that he should hereafter look to the crown for the emoluments of office.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

I eagerly took the paper and read the headlines.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

She then left him with precipitation, and retiring to her own apartment, threw herself on the bed, and gave vent to an agony of grief which it is impossible to describe.
— from Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson

Oscar evidently expected Plato and Renan to have surpassed comparison.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris

He thought over his past, and realised that he had been selfish; but he did not feel that he had ever done anything which deserved such a punishment as this, if punishment it were—if there were a God who watched the children of the earth, and punished, or rewarded, their deeds.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

At one time he was prosecuting certain persons and realized that he had no proof.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

The son-in-law of the victim is charged with the letter containing this proposal, and returns to his house and disguises himself for the sake of concealment.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams