With now welcome force, I realized his entire misapprehension of my character and nature.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

On his release, he embraced me with the utmost fervour; and made an entry of the transaction in his pocket-book—being very particular, I recollect, about a halfpenny I inadvertently omitted from my statement of the total.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Plausibility has ended; empty Routine has ended; much has ended.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

El horizonte se tiñe de color de rosa hacia el Mediodía!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

They first brought him a stag to encounter, next a boar, and after that a bear, all which he slighted, and disdained to stir from his place; but when he saw a lion he then immediately roused himself, evidently manifesting that he declared that alone worthy to enter the lists with him.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Awakened rudely in the middle of the night, and relieved of his post as Minister like the sentinels of the Assembly, the worthy man, astounded, and rubbing his eyes, muttered, "Eh! then the President is a ——.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Pleasure and revenge / Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice / Of any true decision.
— 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.

She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her euchology, mumbled Aves in one corner of the house, while I love you was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a vague way, like two shadows.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And so he found a wine-and-watery grave; They could not rescue him although so close, Because the sea ran higher every minute,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

While he spoke, a thought had flashed on me, and, presently I replied, humbly enough: “Master, I am bound to obey you.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

But each second the water rose higher; each minute was imminent with danger.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

Prince Eugene being joined by the different reinforcements he expected, marched towards the French lines; but found them so strong that he would not hazard an attack; and such precautions taken, that with all his military talents he could not relieve the besieged.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She was probably Mrs. Judson now, unless Jean—but Hard Rope had eased my mind a little there—and I had no right even to think of her.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

A few minutes' reflection, however, enabled me to see that the best service I could offer to the suspected man (always assuming that he had no alibi to offer) was that of representing the facts as I saw them to the vast public reached by this influential journal.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

“Really,” he exclaimed, “Miss Vanderpoel!
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When he turned round, his eyes met those of Hippolyte.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

Sport , n. 1. Play, diversion, amusement, pastime, game, fun, frolic, gambol, prank, jest, recreation, hilarity, entertainment, merriment, mirth, jollity, joviality, pleasantry, merry-making.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

He speaks of the baseness of mankind, of violence trampling on justice, of the glorious life which will one day be upon earth, of the window-gratings, which remind him every minute of the stupidity and cruelty of oppressors.
— from The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Not as large as Otowi, this ruin has equal majesty by reason of its commanding position on top of a cliff-ringed island mesa overlooking a vast north-south sweep of the Rio Grande and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains beyond.
— from Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico by Kittridge A. Wing