“My reputation is getting a little damaged, and I meant to clear it up brilliantly with an exposure of this bill at the supreme moment, and ride back into Congress on the eclat of it; and if I had that bit of manuscript, I would do it yet.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

And if you Love me who love you so, receive it gladly, And let me taste your lovely virgin charms.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Draco appears to have been intrusted by the people of Athens with indefinite powers to reform its government and laws.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Not onely these fair bounds, but all the Earth To thee and to thy Race I give; as Lords Possess it, and all things that therein live, 340 Or live in Sea, or Aire, Beast, Fish, and Fowle.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Raychurn is gone a long time ago; he is not yet come.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

But I lacked the courage to plead "I have forgotten" to the eager mother awaiting the display of her son's marvellous talents; so that, in the reading I gave, a large divergence occurred between Valmiki's intention and my explanation.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

"Not only these fair bounds, but all the Earth To thee and to thy race I give; as lords Possess it, and all things that therein live, Or live in sea, or air; beast, fish, and fowl.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The king of those heathens, called Raya Papua, is exceedingly rich in gold, and lives in the interior of the island.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The breath which rose is gone, and left not even hope behind it.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Sim reached in, grabbed a little foot with one of them things they call a "gaiter" on it, hauled it down and planted it on the step of the carriage.
— from The Postmaster by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Rich in great artists little known even there, iv.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

Castilian became the language of poetry and of didactic works, routing its Galician and Latin rivals.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

And once a month Colonel Stuyvesant Van Epps read it, gulped a little, and made no reply.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

Is it not beautiful, Mr Newland?” “Extremely beautiful, indeed, ma’am,” replied I, glad at last that her ladyship allowed me to speak a word.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

Miss Flora began to read it, gave a little cry, and sprang to her feet.
— from Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Concert of Europe after 1815-Spirit of the Foreign Policy of Alexander, of Metternich, and of the English Ministry-Metternich's action in Italy, England's in Sicily and Spain-The Reaction in France-Richelieu and the New Chamber-Execution of Ney-Imprisonments and persecutions-Conduct of the Ultra-Royalists in Parliament-Contests on the Electoral Bill and the Budget-The Chamber prorogued-Affair of Grenoble-Dissolution of the Chamber-Electoral Law and Financial Settlement of 1817-Character of the first years of peace in Europe generally-Promise of a Constitution in Prussia-Hardenberg opposed by the partisans of autocracy and privilege-Schmalz's Pamphlet-Delay of Constitutional Reform in Germany at large-The Wartburg Festival-Progress of Reaction-The Czar now inclines to repression-Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle-Evacuation of France-Growing influence of Metternich in Europe-His action on Prussia-Murder of Kotzebue-The Carlsbad Conference and measures of repression in Germany-Richelieu and Decazes-Murder of the Duke of Berry-Progress of the reaction in France-General causes of the victory of reaction in Europe.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

"What a relief! I got a lot of your old clothes mended and I read three installments of the Saturday Evening Post serial."
— from Sorry: Wrong Dimension by Ross Rocklynne

The mission station may have overawed them for a time into seeming honesty, but they began to rob its gardens at last, and out of this circumstance comes a story, related to me by an old Territorial officer, which may be new to most readers.
— from The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth

I abandon the filthy hostelry of this body of mine, built with flesh, reddened with blood, covered with a hideous skin, full of uncleanliness; and, for my recompense, I go at last to slumber in the deepest deeps of the Absolute—in Annihilation."
— from The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert