WHEN Nelson informed Earl St. Vincent that the armistice had been concluded, he told him also, without reserve, his own discontent at the dilatoriness and indecision which he witnessed, and could not remedy.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

His capers reminded him of dancing, and looking at the child’s round happy little face he thought of what she would be like when he was an old man, taking her into society and dancing the mazurka with her as his old father had danced Daniel Cooper with his daughter.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Those who are sufficiently interested to desire to read his own detailed account of the society he would fain establish, will find an excellent passage in Aphorism 57 of “The Antichrist”.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The only begotten eternal Son of God , 3. 188 being promised to our first Parents in Paradise, at the last being conceived by the Holy Ghost , in the most Holy Womb of the Virgin Mary , 1. of the royal house of David and clad with humane flesh, came into the World at Bethlehem of Judæa , in the extream poverty of a Stable , 2. in the fullness of time, in the year of the world 3970, but pure from all sin, and the name of Jesus was given him, which signifieth a Saviour .
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

She rallied however, on drinking a glass of water which I quietly poured out for her from a Venetian carafe upon the side-table.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

1 "Most holy father," was he commissioned to say, "the emperor is not less desirous than yourself of a union between the two churches: but in this delicate transaction, he is obliged to respect his own dignity and the prejudices of his subjects.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I was thinking over the pictures of God I had seen—rash advances of the devout mind of man, representing his Omnipotent Deity as an old man in a flowing robe, flowing hair, flowing beard, and in the light of her perfectly frank and innocent questions this concept seemed rather unsatisfying.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The credit of this fragment is somewhat hurt by a singular interpolation, in which the author relates his own death at the age of 115 years.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He reached his own door about eleven.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Louise must be forced to give up the companionship of that wretched Dutch girl,” she said as she reached her own door, at which she paused to listen to Liza sobbing.
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

Certain Jewish families, the Ibn-Dauds and the Abrabanels, boasted descent from the royal house of David, and maintained that their ancestors had been settled since time immemorial partly in the district of Lucena, and partly in the environs of Toledo and Seville.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Even Mulgrave himself, in his Art of Poetry said of Dryden coldly— “Though praised and punished for another’s rhymes, His own deserve as great applause sometimes.”
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

It was, in short, as the regulator of a germinating social life that Miss Bart's guidance was required; her ostensible duties as secretary being restricted by the fact that Mrs. Hatch, as yet, knew hardly any one to write to.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

194 Omri endeavoured, in the first place, to make peace with the representative of the royal house of David, and to impress upon him the advantages, to both of them, of pursuing an amicable policy.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

"Or rather hope or despair," added Segoffin, gravely, "and that is why, Suzanne, I ask your nephew to make the effort to go down-stairs.
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

They ran the risk, however, of defeat at the hands of an alien army of the Chinese government's, commanded by an Uighur, and they therefore fled to the Tatars.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

He knew in his own heart that he would find it next to impossible to relinquish his own dawning ambitions, and the thought silenced his complaints.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The ardor of his glances reminded her of duty and of danger.
— from The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur