The young people (one of whom was not quite young) got out of their carriage too, and squeezed their way up to the ikon, pushing people aside rather carelessly.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mr. Wolf goes on to observe that Jewish services were regularly held in the secret Synagogue, but "in public Carvajal and his friends followed the practice of the secret Jews in Spain and Portugal, passing as Roman Catholics and regularly attending mass in the Spanish Ambassador's chapel."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Either withdraw unto some private place, And reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Urge them while their souls Are capable of this ambition, Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath Of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, Cool and congeal again to what it was. CITIZEN.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[164] When complete possession of this character takes place there is—as in ‘mediumship’—a change of personality, and the manner, thoughts, actions, language, and the whole nature of the possessed person are radically changed.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Either withdraw unto some private place And reason coldly of your grievances, Or else depart.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

digna autoridad de todo lo que pasaba, preguntó al revendedor con majestuoso acento: —¿A quién
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Peoples physically and racially closely akin to the Hamites followed, probably in successive waves.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

When everything was quite ready, and the peasants already held the reins in their hands, and were only waiting for the words 'With God's blessing!' to start, Gerasim came out of his garret, went up to Tatiana, and gave her as a parting present a red cotton handkerchief he had bought for her a year ago.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I remember that, young as I was, I disabled a very pretty perfumed and ringleted Cavalier.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

Peaches, quinces, pears, apples, plums, pine apples, rhubarb, crab apples, and, in fact, all fruits of this kind, I peel, quarter and place in a dish of cold water (to prevent discoloration), until I have prepared enough to fill a jar: I then pack them solid as possible in a jar, and then fill the jar with the syrup previously prepared.
— from Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of All Classes by H. J. Clayton

Many times, in my relations with Seriosha, this wish to resemble grown-up people put a rude check upon the love that was waiting to expand, and made me repress it.
— from Childhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At the hothouses of Barham Court, thirty thousand panes of glass had been broken by the hail, while peaches, plums, pears, apples, rhubarb, cabbages, mangolds, everything, had been pounded to pieces and torn to shreds.
— from The People of the Abyss by Jack London

anada of His Majesty's special arrangement under which the "Life and Letters of Queen Victoria" was offered for sale at a low popular price; a Royal cablegram of sympathy was sent to the sufferers by the Fernie (B. C.) fire; the Edward Medal, established by the King for the recognition of courage in saving or trying to save life in quarries or mines, was extended to [Pg 431] Canada and all parts of the Empire.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

Levin Schuneking formerly Grand-Master at the Court of the Elector of Cologne, has just published The Peasant Prince , a romance, called in Germany his best work.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various