Being [514] introduced to Pope Pius VII., he shewed him a Hebrew Bible which had been the companion of his travels.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I am convinced that on the eve of his departure from his paternal village he said with an air of gloom to some pretty neighbour that he was going away, not so much for the simple purpose of serving in the army as of seeking death, because... and hereupon, I am sure, he covered his eyes with his hand and continued thus, “No, you—or thou—must not know!
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

"In the garden back of our house we planted vegetables," he said, "you know, peas and corn and such things.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

“Are the plates very hot?” said Mick; “Very sir.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Interdum lacrymæ pondera vocis habent —Sometimes tears have the weight of words.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Ein Mensch, der nur lieset um zu druecken, lieset wahrscheinlich uebel; und wer jeden Gedanken, der ihm aufstosst, durch Feder and Presse versendet, hat sie in kurzer Zeit alle versandt, und wird bald ein blosser Diener der Druckerey, ein Buchstabensetzer werden.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thus in the Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten , [391] he tells us that “as Reason is required to deduce actions from laws, Will is nothing but pure practical reason”; and, similarly, in the Kritik der praktischen Vernunft , he speaks of the “objective reality of a pure Will or, which is the same thing , a pure practical reason.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

" It is striking, too, how he comes out once into public view; he, since no other is willing to come: in resistance to a public grievance.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Urging himself on with his memories, forcing himself to picture Vera, he strode rapidly towards the garden.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

acabar, to complete, finish; give out, become exhausted; acaba de ver, he has just seen; acaba por vender, he sells at last; al — de reír, as they finished laughing.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

They walked some paces in silence, and then in a still more poignant voice he said— "Don't you believe that, Helena? Wasn't it true, what Ishmael said yesterday?
— from The White Prophet, Volume 2 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

The lawyer, who still wore his robe, turned his cold face to the judge, settled his spectacles on his pallid green eyes, and then in a shrill, persistent voice he stated that two strangers had forced themselves at night into the Rogron domicile and had abducted therefrom the minor Lorrain.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac

And then, with neither hurry nor any particular violence, he struck the Master in the mouth.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Twice the Great Frederick had sojourned in the palace; visiting his sister Louise, the wife of the Wild Margrave, and more than once it had welcomed her next neighbor and sister Wilhelmina, the Margravine of Baireuth, whose autobiographic voice, piercingly plaintive and reproachful, seemed to quiver in the air.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

For if we allow not such a pleasing Variety, how shall we excuse even Virgil himself, who has his Dido, as well a Tasso his Armida and Erminia?
— from Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) by Samuel Wesley

At Fussell’s Mills, near Petersburg, Va., he sustained the loss of his right arm, but after recovering from the wound, he resumed the command of his regiment, which command he retained until the close of the war.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

"I've tried to analyze it myself, and I sent it to a celebrated chemist, but the ingredients completely defy classification, and tests seem powerless to determine anything except that they are purely vegetable," he said, shaking the liquid angrily, and then rising to lock it in his cabinet.
— from A Village Ophelia and Other Stories by Anne Reeve Aldrich

The lady, very much injured in her tenderest feeling (professional and personal vanity), had sued him for a large sum of money, which he had paid without blinking and returned to South Africa, heart-free, to make some more.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

Looking at the statue of Napoleon on the column in the Place Vendôme, he said: "If I were so high up, I should be afraid of becoming giddy."
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de