"You won't pull my hair again, Billy Pillins," said Theresa, walking with her sisters, and looking superbly at the freckled, red-haired boy.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“Well, sir,” at last said Anne of Austria, “you are silent, after rendering such a service?” “Madame,” replied D’Artagnan, “I have nought to say, save that my life is ever at your majesty’s service, and that I shall only be happy the day I lose it for you.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

If there's anything that George F. or I can do to help you, call on us, but show a little speed, anyway!'
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The centuries, the revolutions, which at least devastate with impartiality and grandeur, have been joined by a cloud of school architects, licensed, sworn, and bound by oath; defacing with the discernment and choice of bad taste, substituting the chicorées of Louis XV.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

They, however, resembled each other exactly, and were only to be distinguished by their having eaten different sweetmeats before they fell asleep; the eldest a bit of sugar; the second a little syrup; and the youngest a spoonful of honey.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hebert; ( Vilate, Causes secretes de la Revolution de Thermidor ( Paris, 1825 ), p. 179. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Desirous that the poor, who could not afford to pay Mr. Perkins five guineas, or even five shillings for his tractors, should also share in the benefits of that sublime discovery, they subscribed a large sum, and built an hospital, called the “Perkinean Institution,” in which all comers might be magnetised free of cost.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

To-morrow I shall seek another lodging, so as to afford your tender conscience some relief.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For as the ideas of pleasure can have an influence only by means of their vivacity, which makes them approach impressions, it is most natural those ideas should have that influence, which are favoured by most circumstances, and have a natural tendency to become strong and lively; such as our ideas of the passions and sensations of any human creature.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Then Artie hopped down the other side and Leigh stood at the top to help his sister over, for though he was a teasing boy sometimes, he never forgot that she was a little girl and that it was his place to take care of her.
— from Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children by Mrs. Molesworth

You cannot but know that a despot lives in perpetual insecurity, both at home and abroad: that he must always go armed himself, and have armed guards around him: that whether at war or at peace, he is always alike in danger: that, while suspecting every one as an enemy, he nevertheless knows that when he has put to death the persons suspected, he has only weakened the power of the city: 37 that he has no sincere friendship with any one: that he cannot count even upon good faith, and must cause all his food to be tasted by others, before he eats it: that whoever has slain a private citizen, is shunned in Grecian cities as an abomination 219 — while the tyrannicide is everywhere honoured and recompensed: that there is no safety for the despot even in his own family, many having been killed by their nearest relatives: 38 that he is compelled to rely upon mercenary foreign soldiers and liberated slaves, against the free citizens who hate him: and that the hire of such inauspicious protectors compels him to raise money, by despoiling individuals and plundering temples:
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

After vainly attempting to get a safe-conduct during the hostilities, she at last succeeded after the armistice, and left the town to go to Tours, where she had friends willing to receive her, and where she expected to hear from her son.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

though they may go away here like a lamb, as the world says, yet, if you could but follow them a little, to stand and listen soon after their departure, it is to be feared, you should hear them roar like a lion at their first entrance into hell, far worse than even did Korah, &c., when they went down quick into the ground (Num 16:31-35).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

First he went around the sides, stopping at every third step, and looking solemnly at the rod.
— from The Boys of Grand Pré School Illustrated by James De Mille

SEDDON, a landlady SNOW, a detective A POLICE MAGISTRATE AN UNKNOWN LADY, from beyond TWO LITTLE GIRLS, homeless LIVENS, their father A RELIEVING OFFICER A MAGISTRATE'S CLERK
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

But it was such a large sum, and I've given him so much already.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham