She ought to have tried not to notice, as though everything had been as usual, while instead of that, she ... and I dimly felt that I should make her pay dearly for all this .
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And anon they met with Sir La Cote Male Taile; and first La Cote Male Taile smote down Plaine de Force, and after he smote down Plaine de Amours; and then they dressed them to their shields and swords, and bade La Cote Male Taile alight, and so he did; and there was dashing and foining with swords, and so they began to assail full hard La Cote Male Taile, and many great wounds they gave him upon his head, and upon his breast, and upon his shoulders.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Gesture, thus defined, is profoundly different from action.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Yet ever, he did not suspect such a formal science, but ran his ship ashore, for safety's sake, landing on scepticism, there to let it lie and rot; whereas my object is rather to give it a pilot, who, by means of safe astronomical principles drawn from a knowledge of the globe, and provided with a complete chart and compass, may steer the ship safely, whither he listeth.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Only this morning she had confused Francesco Francia with Piero della Francesca, and Cecil had said, “What!
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The valleys on the east bear Engelmann spruce, alpine fir, lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, and limber pine.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Now it is evident we have no motive leading us to the performance of promises, distinct from a sense of duty.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The other members present were the Bishop of St. Asaph, Lord Eliot, Lord Palmerston, Dr. Fordyce, and Mr. Malone.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

A Thus, fully resolved upon freedom or death, with scarcely provisions enough for a single day, while the rain and storm was piteously descending, fathers and mothers with children in their arms (Aaron Cornish had two)—the entire party started.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Nor was the mixture of races in Europe the mere mingling of peoples descended from a common Aryan stock, for if that were so, what has become of the Persians and Egyptians, worshippers of Æon and Serapis and Mithras, who garrisoned the Northumberland wall; of the host of Asiatic and African soldiers and slaves scattered through Europe during the Roman Empire; of the Negroes introduced into southern Portugal by Prince Henry the Navigator; of the Jews that swarmed in every medieval city; of the Moors in southern Spain?
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

[Pg 187] whatever belonged to the plantation was for the enjoyment of those who lived on the plantation is deliciously expressed by Paul Dunbar: Folks ain’t got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits; Him dat giv’ de squir’ls de bushtails made de bobtails fu’ de rabbits.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

Incapable of judging the times in which he lived, weighed down by Prussian tradition, and full of zeal as titular chief of the House of Prussia, descended from a Suabian family which had emigrated to Brandenburg, he persuaded the upper classes of Germany that he had consolidated his prestige.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise

The ponies dashed forward, and whether the girls would, or no, they were borne at a desperate pace right up the trail after the other flying squadron of horses.
— from Dorothy Dale in the West by Margaret Penrose

The Factor watched the men paddle desperately for a few moments, then walked quickly to where a set of ka-yaks was waiting for him.
— from Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray

147 The day’s work was practically done for all except those who were on watch duty.
— from The Battleship Boys at Sea; Or, Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin

As the prisoner obeyed instructions, Flemming rose to his feet and began feeling in his pockets, drawing forth, at last, a large brown ball.
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

A mule should be chosen chiefly for its pacing powers, doing four and a half miles an hour on an average for seven hours a day, without turning a hair or tiring the rider, whose comfort depends on an easy pace.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

Ah, your Majesty:"-and King Louis, though not a hating man, did privately dislike Friedrich; and evil speeches of Friedrich's had been reported to him.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle