In what?' replied Helena, ever eager to relate a miraculous adventure; 'If you had only heard the hundredth part of those marvellous Stories about this Statue which the Domina used to recount!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Night had set in for more than half an hour, but she had not had the candles lighted, for when Farfrae was away she preferred waiting for him by the firelight, and, if it were not too cold, keeping one of the window-sashes a little way open that the sound of his wheels might reach her ears early.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

For the last thirty years he had invariably gone the same way to his office every morning, and had met the same men going to business at the same time, and nearly on the same spot, and he returned home every evening by the same road, and again met the same faces which he had seen growing old.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Afterwards, on the other asking for her place back again, she renewed her entreaties, earnestly begging for a short time, until she might be enabled to lead forth her whelps when they had gained sufficient strength.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

These arguments at length concluded, Mr. Squeers crossed his legs, uncrossed them, scratched his head, rubbed his eye, examined the palms of his hands, and bit his nails, and after exhibiting many other signs of restlessness and indecision, asked ‘whether one hundred pound was the highest that Mr. Nickleby could go.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Omnis autem actio vacare debet temeritate et neglegentia nec vero agere quicquam, cuius non possit causam probabilem reddere; haec est enim fere
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

in bodily frame he was strong; he was amiable, too, and moderate; and for these reasons he escaped envy.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

He received his early education from his father, who was a rabbi and a member of the consistorium, and at the schools of Copenhagen, [302] where, in 1818, he became a student of law.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Marsilio Ticino y los platónicos del Renacimiento hallarían en el escritor uruguayo más que un discípulo, uno de sus iguales: un humanista eximio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

VII "Like his brother, Paul Petrovitch Kirsanov received his early education at home, and entered the Imperial Corps of Pages.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

And a year later she writes to the same correspondent: “We are having delightful evenings this winter; how often do I wish you could make one in the circle around our tea table where sits on my right hand every evening but Sunday Walt Whitman.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

In this manner the righteous highly esteem even pain, as if it were gain, if they may cause by it the happiness of others.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

No tincture of the white man's religion had ever entered his mind to question any of his Iroquois beliefs.
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

“Well, princess, I assure you I wish she were here to-day, that the charm of her presence might retain him every evening in this salon, from which, without speaking to her, or scarcely looking at her, he could not tear himself away when she was present.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

How far they persuaded themselves 148 that such a condition of the race had ever existed, is a point, as I have already stated, which their language leaves in much uncertainty; but they certainly do seem to have made the conjecture, which has at all times possessed much plausibility, that the institution of property was not so old as the existence of mankind.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

As the Prussian officers in charge of the military hospital in Sedan had refused him everything, even chloroform, he was accustomed to send to Belgium for what he required.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

Lord William Bentinck was then recruiting his exhausted energies in the bracing
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

When he returned home Esarhaddon erected at the Syro-Cappadocian city of Singirli [ 543 ] a statue of victory, which is now in the Berlin museum.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

[Pg 363] "The most enthralling and interest-compelling work of fiction this reviewer has ever encountered."— The American, Nashville.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne