He read:— My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But also on this voyage he did geographical service by determining the location of the peninsula and the northern Kurile Islands, as well as exploring the channel between them, and thus finding for the Russian mariner a new and easier route to Kamchatka.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

We may still have from time to time, under the reign of printing, a column made I suppose, by a whole army from melted cannon, as we had under the reign of architecture, Iliads and Romanceros, Mahabâhrata, and Nibelungen Lieds, made by a whole people, with rhapsodies piled up and melted together.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Father Georgi invited me to take a cup of chocolate with him, and informed me that the cardinal had been apprised of my arrival by a letter from Don Lelio, and that his eminence would receive me at noon at the Villa Negroni, where he would be taking a walk.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

From the field beyond the village came now sounds of regimental music and now the roar of many voices shouting “Hurrah!” to the new commander in chief.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And when the king saw there was no hope to stay them, he did right mightily and nobly as a king should do, and ever, like a lion, raged in the thickest of the press, and slew on the right hand and on the left, till his horse went fetlock deep in blood.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

I shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me thither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would create such another as I have been.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Thus nishka , which in the Rigveda means a necklet, in later times became the name of a coin.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

A rich mind and noble spirit will cast over the humblest home a radiance of beauty which the upholsterer and decorator can never approach.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

En la región más al norte, cerca de la costa se encuentran la caña de azúcar, el algodón, el tabaco y el arroz.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

If I wished to rear me a noble horse, I should take care that its mother possessed the strength and qualities I wished in the animal.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

In this respect he resembled many a normal youth, except that this impression had lingered with him a little longer than was usual; for faith is always instinctive, while skepticism is the result of experience and reflection.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

At first her voice failed to reach many a note, but as the snow falling from the mountain peaks to the plains at first slides slowly, then rapidly increases in bulk and power, her tones gradually gained fulness and irresistible might and, when at last she rested the harp against the wall and walked to the chair exhausted, Maria clasped her hand and said with deep emotion: “Stay with us, Henrica.”
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

I was sadly moved with some part of your story and you have really made a noble defence, and deserve the praises of all our sex.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

What will happen when the real man arrives?" "Not even then.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

Father has ridden many a night when the roads would not admit of wheeling, without thought of complaint, to the charcoal camp to tend a new mother, a baby, or a woodchopper suddenly stricken with pneumonia, that is so common a disease among men living as these do on poor food, in tiny close cabins, and continually getting checks of perspiration in the variable climate.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Samuel by Anonymous

If you allow yourself to be easily content with your work and your receipts therefrom, you will speedily fall into a rut, become "old fogy" and dull, and one day will find yourself with a desk full of rejected MSS., and no hope for a brighter future.
— from Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett

On well-drained spots as far north as Split lake the flora is almost identical with that of similar sites in Riding mountains of Manitoba, proving that during the growing season these localities lie under one and the same isotherm, or nearly so, And yet Riding mountains are nearly four hundred miles southwest of Split lake.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

So I expressed my thanks for the courtesy that had been shown me, and took my departure, not wishing to press the matter so closely as to render myself a nuisance to the worthy Wendover, and bearing in mind that it would be open to me to return at any future time.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon