Regarding the episode of “Pavlicheff’s son,” Gania had been absolutely silent, partly from a kind of false modesty, partly, perhaps, to “spare the prince’s feelings.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 127] makes bequest of two silver quart tankards; a silver cup; a silver porringer; a silver pepper pot; two sets of silver castors; a silver soup spoon; a silver sauce spoon, and numerous silver tablespoons and tea spoons, with a silver tea-pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If I had interested her in my favour, she would certainly not have divulged my secret, and I saw in her doing so proof positive that she did not want the jest to go any further, or rather of her want of that spirit so necessary to ensure the success of an intrigue.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On the seventh day a similar feast (called kanduri mĕnujoh hari ) is followed by the tahalil , which necessitates a further distribution of fees ( sĕdĕkah tahalil ); but in the case of poor people this second tahalil may be omitted, or the master of the house may say to the company, “I ask (to be let off) the praying fees” ( Sahya minta’ sĕdĕkah tahalil ), in which case the tahalil is free.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The master looks puzzled for a moment, and then seeing, as the fact is, that the boy is really affected to tears by the most touching thing in Homer, perhaps in all profane poetry put together, steps up to him and lays his hand kindly on his shoulder, saying, “Never mind, my little man, you've construed very well.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Then I inferred she would not give me a kiss, whereupon she at once gave me practical proof that she did not shrink from that either.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And the Princess, preceding Theodore softly, carried him to her father’s armoury, where, equipping him with a complete suit, he was conducted by Matilda to the postern-gate.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was true—she told every one so, and gave every hand a parting pressure that said: “You know that your dances are making my evening.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Then proceeding past the stalls, Sumantra heard the lamentations of females at windows, burning in grief for Rāma.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

Uncle Wiggily was very brave, you know, even if he only had his red, white and blue striped rheumatism crutch instead of the talcum powder popgun that shot bean-bag bullets.
— from Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland by Howard Roger Garis

I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night,— Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Some two years earlier there had been an acrimonious correspondence between them with reference to a shipment of skirts lost in transit—a correspondence ending in threatened litigation; and Mr. Griesman had transferred his account with Potash & Perlmutter to Sammet Brothers.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

There are four [divisions] between the equator and the summer tropic or parallel passing through Syene.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

When the festive Sunday came which he had looked forward to with so much pleasure, he sat idly in his study across from the church and watched people come for the service, but another pastor preached the sermon, he had earnestly wished to deliver, and other hymns than his own beloved songs served as vehicles for the people’s praise.
— from Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg

The pulpit produces the speaker, if it does nothing else.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

The poor girl's pride was so deeply wounded at being obliged to bring in the waiter before company (and as her family is so respectable, she of course has a certain degree of proper pride), that she gave me notice this morning of the utter impossibility of her remaining in the house another day.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

Could there be a plainer proof that Saul was mistaken in supposing David to be actuated by murderous or other sinful feelings against him?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

[13] Palestine Pilgrims’ Text Society, No. VI., annotated by Sir C. W. Wilson.
— from Palestine by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder