With what eagerness did I run every morning at sunrise to respire the perfumed air in the peristyle!
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Cour des Comptes has stuck its nose into my affairs again'—" "What the devil's that you're reading?" exclaimed Monpavon abruptly, snatching the letter from his hands.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

For more than five hundred years the islands formed part of the Roman Empire, Minorca always sharing the fate of her larger and more important sister.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

On the 3rd of December, the citizens rose en masse , and surrounded the Houses of Parliament.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

In August they went with Miss Blagden, Mr. Lytton, and one or two others to again make villeggiatura at Bagni di Lucca, where Mrs. Browning rose every morning at six to bathe in the rapid little mountain stream,—finding herself strengthened by this heroic practice,—and
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

Whole volumes of the atrocities perpetrated by the revolutionary soldiery came to her recollection; each moment, as she talked, memory would recall this fact or the other, and so she continued rattling on with the fervor of a heated imagination, and the wild impetuosity of a half-crazed intellect.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

she asked herself, as, angry now, she hurried to her room, expecting momentarily a summons to the presence of Mrs Marter.
— from By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn