And he made another like it in S. Maria Novella, whereon Puccio Capanna, his pupil, worked in company with him; and this is still to-day over the principal door, on the right as you enter the church, over the tomb of the Gaddi.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

She exclaimed, with the queerest little catch in her voice, 'Rilla, are you engaged to Kenneth Ford?' "'I—don't—know,' I sobbed.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What I want from you is an informal and strictly confidential declaration, for the case against you is a serious one, and of such a kind as to require all your efforts to wipe off this blot upon your honour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

So, bring us now luego unas cuantas botellas, some bottles right away y en tanto que humedecemos and while we take a drop, la garganta, verdadera give us a true account relación haznos de un lance of a thing about which sobre el cual hay controversia. there’s a great deal of lather.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

How often I stopped with the intention of returning, and yet every time my pride conquered my fear, and sent me on again until my object should be attained.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

On the right as you enter the Chapel is another gravestone, on which has been the effigy of Sir Thomas Parry , Knight, Treasurer of the Household, Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries to Queen Elizabeth.
— from Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities by Anonymous

What a blessing it is that things are seldom as bad in the reality as you expect they are going to be in your imagination: though I must say the Winter Journey was worse even than I had imagined.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

On the right, as you enter the street, is a long vision of grey wooden houses with awnings and balconies—little shops, little two-story dwellings of fishermen—and ranging away in front of these other hosts of bamboo frames from which other millions of freshly caught cuttlefish are hanging.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

One may reason and plead with them and show them that their belief contradicts their own Scriptures, that their Talmud is filled with palpable falsehoods, and that their hope is a chimera; but they turn a deaf ear to argument and entreaty, and turn upon you with fierce resentment at your efforts to show them the truth.
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

"I have been waiting for such a dust-storm as the one from which we saved you, to be rewarded as you endeavored to reward me.
— from Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

A sales outlet to the left of the guard rooms as you enter the Castillo offers books and pamphlets on the history of Florida and Spanish colonization.
— from Castillo de San Marcos A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Florida by United States. National Park Service

That other whom you seek forlorn. Half-earthly was; but I am born Of the immortals, and our race Have still some sadness in our face: He wins me late, but keeps me long, Who, dowered with every gift of passion, In that fierce flame can forge and fashion Of sin and self the anchor strong; Can thence compel the driving force Of daily life's mechanic course, Nor less the nobler energies Of needful toil and culture wise: Whose soul is worth the tempter's lure, Who can renounce and yet endure, To him
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Perhaps it was a touch of pride which induced me to go on horseback, as I was a good rider, and young enough to feel a certain satisfaction in my appearance.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens