Benoist leaned against the gate post and was suddenly seized with a desire to weep.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The other Idolaters who are not of this sect call these people heretics— Patarins as we should say[NOTE 16]—because they do not worship their idols in their own fashion.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought the worst; then he will have been put to the proof; and we shall see whether he will be affected by the fear of infamy and its consequences.
— from The Republic by Plato

This last collection deserves to rank with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and with Shakespeare's Sonnets , as one of the three great cycles of love poems in our language.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I entered one of the houses of those people and was Scercely Seated before they offered me a Sheep Skin for Sale nothing could be more acceptable except the Animal itself in examoning this Skin I found it was a young one, the Skin of the head was Cased So as to fit the head of a man and was esteemed as a great orniment and highly prised by them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Three or four hours of the night had not passed away without some secret cabals; and when the election of an emperor was proposed, the spirit of faction began to agitate the assembly.
— 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

Partly as we so sat, and partly afterwards, on the way to Aucharn, each of us narrated his adventures; and I shall here set down so much of Alan’s as seems either curious or needful.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Three centuries ago, if one beggar said anything disagreeable to another, the person annoyed would say, “Stow you,” or hold your peace; low people now say, “Stow it,” equivalent to “Be quiet.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

After lying here about a fortnight, and collecting all the hides the place afforded, we set sail again for San Pedro.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

"Be patient, and we shall see.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As for Mrs Haldane, she disapproved, and was a great deal more grim than ordinary; but, for once in a way, because it would be a great thing to see, and because Mr Baldwin and his sisters were to be there too,—'as much out of their proper place as we,' she said, shaking her head,—she had allowed herself to be persuaded.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This had an important influence on the views of Ptolemy, as we shall see, and indirectly helped long afterwards to the discovery of America.
— from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs

We shall encourage the labor of freemen rather than that of the slaves, by giving a preference to their productions: and We shall spare no exertions nor means to bring the whole nation to speedy repentance.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

But preliminary arrest and complete execution of the sentence remained in such cases at least legally possible, and were still sometimes carried into effect even against persons of rank; for instance, Lucius Hostilius Tubulus, praetor of 612, who was capitally impeached for a heinous crime, was refused the privilege of exile, arrested, and executed.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

The platform adopted was strongly Southern, and this fact served to confirm in the minds of many the existence of the suspected agreement for the division of honors between North and South.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

His wife, who had been confined of a daughter in the preceding August, was so seriously unwell that he had to take her to Malvern.
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

And that population, as we shall see, was, even at an early period, of considerable size.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

They were provided also with square sails pitched about amidships and were steered by a large paddle.
— from A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

Mamma Vi has taught her to know your photograph; and, whenever she sees it, she says, 'Papa,' as plainly as I can.
— from Elsie's Kith and Kin by Martha Finley