He thinks that this is a poor pitiful life, not foreseeing that for him too, maybe, sometime the mournful hour may strike, when for one day of that pitiful life he would give all his years of phantasy, and would give them not only for joy and for happiness, but without caring to make distinctions in that hour of sadness, remorse and unchecked grief.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Flatter not yourself, quoth Pantagruel; all will go to ruin.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Luttichau, however, was quite content to have Reissiger and myself as celebrities, particularly as we got on so well together, and he remained deaf to Hiller's wishes.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The broken Arm informed me that maney of the Small chiefs of the different Bands of his nation had not heard our word from our own mouths, Several of them were present and was glad to See me &c. I repeeted in part what had been Said in Council before.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But as soon as he found that the Peacock arrangement would get him to Rugby by twelve o'clock in the day, whereas otherwise he wouldn't be there till the evening, all other plans melted away, his one absorbing aim being to become a public school-boy as fast as possible, and six hours sooner or later seeming to him of the most alarming importance.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Well, after a time he persuaded a white girl to marry him.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In the comedy of the Acharnians, represented one year earlier than the Knights, the poet alludes with great delight to a sum of five talents, which Kleon had been compelled “to disgorge”: a present tendered to him by the insular subjects of Athens, if we may believe Theopompus, for the purpose of procuring a remission of their tribute, and which the Knights, whose evasions of military service he had exposed, compelled him to relinquish.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

In this part of the Union the impulsion of political activity was given in the townships; and it may almost be said that each of them originally formed an independent nation.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville