“He was always coming to me for money: he used to get thirty roubles a month at least out of me, chiefly for luxuries: he had enough to keep him without my help.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I HAVE just received a most affecting letter from Mr. Macartney.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The Trojans shall sink mingling into their blood; I will add their sacred law and ritual, and make all Latins and of a single speech.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The plan contemplated that, in addition to crossing the Tennessee River and making a lodgment on the terminus of Missionary Ridge, I should demonstrate against Lookout Mountain, near Trenton, with a part of my command.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There being no bedstead she had flung down some rugs and made a little nest for herself in the very cramped quarters the closet afforded.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Now therefore, as you see how the matter truly lies, put from you all thoughts of reputation among men; and let it suffice you to live so long as your nature wills, though that be but the scanty remnant of a life.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Chapter XXV - God represented as merciful and loving.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

As the town clock of Newcastle struck one the sleeper awoke, and with all the gestures of a man rousing himself out of deep sleep he looked attentively about him; perceiving that he was alone he rose and making a little circuit passed close to the cavalier who was speaking to the sentinel.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

However he recovered, and made a last appeal to Mother Demdike; but the unrelenting hag derided him and cursed him, telling him if he brought her all his mill contained, and added to that all his substance, she would not spare his child.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

It must be admitted that he was in some respects a mentally altered Lester.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

At the same time Davout faced the Russians on the right, and Murat and Lannes attacked the Russian and Austrian squadrons on the left, while Kellermann’s light cavalry dispersed the squadrons of the Uhlans.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

A little working, and reading, and music; a little visiting and housekeeping, if Fanny be propitious—coming, and going, and smiling, and making believe enjoy it, when one feels ready to fly.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

The Swedish, like the Polish, Yule straw has sundry virtues; scattered on the ground it will make a barren field productive; and it is used to bind trees and make them fruitful. {61} Again the peasant at Christmas will sit on a log and throw up Yule straws one by one to the roof; as many as lodge in the rafters, so many will be the sheaves of rye at harvest. {62} Christmas and New Year Gifts.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

And, at those unspoken words, he seemed to see her rise and move away, like a woman in a terrible dream, from which she was fighting to awake—rise and go out into the dark and cold, without a thought of him, without so much as the knowledge of his presence.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

"But from the hills with stunning sound The dashing torrents fall; Loud is the raging tempest round, And mocks a lover's call.
— from Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Joanna Baillie

Odin gave them life and spirit, Hoener endowed them with reason and motion, and Loder gave them the senses and physical characteristics.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For instance, from the limited unity of race or nationality the results at most are limited.
— from Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá