I would not have set a child upon it," she said, and much more which I can not write.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

She was impressed by something about him, and indeed the last thing she expected of him was that he would come in and speak like this at such a moment.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I did indeed remember perfectly how, soon after Minna's arrival in Riga, I had been particularly pressed by Holtei not to prevent my wife's engagement at the theatre.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Jones, who is wildly enamored of Miss Brown, and who lies awake at night until he loathes his comfortable pillow and tumbles his sheets into two twisted rags of linen in his agonies, as if he were a prisoner and wanted to wind them into impromptu ropes; this same Jones who thinks Russell Square a magic place because his divinity inhabits it, who thinks the trees in that inclosure and the sky above it greener and bluer than other trees or sky, and who feels a pang, yes, an actual pang, of mingled hope, and joy, and expectation, and terror, when he emerges from Guilford street, descending from the hights of Islington, into those sacred precincts; this very Jones is hard and callous toward the torments of Smith, who adores Miss Robinson, and cannot imagine what the infatuated fellow can see in the girl.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

MEI YAO-CH`EN (1002-1060), commonly known by his "style" as Mei Sheng-yu, was, like Tu Mu, a poet of distinction.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

[Pg 136] ‘Why then so eager,’ asked he with a shout, ‘To stare at me of all the filthy crew?’
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

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— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In his government of the province, he conducted himself with equal justice and resolution; for he defeated the Bessians and Thracians in a great battle, and treated the allies of the republic in such a manner, that there are extant letters from M. Tullius Cicero, in which he advises and exhorts his brother Quintus, who then held the proconsulship of Asia with no great reputation, to imitate the example of his neighbour Octavius, in gaining the affections of the allies of Rome.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"But if he wanted to be an artist, why didn't he say so?" asked Mrs. Strickland at last.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

sents you have sent her, such as the Biscayan and the galley slaves, and many more no doubt, for your worship must have won many victories in the time when I was not yet your squire.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Each had undergone a training so different from the other that they never saw any matter in exactly the same light, and their opposite experiences were mutually valuable.
— from Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle by G. (George) Norway

At this he turned to stare at me, then his grey eyes widened suddenly, and he leapt at me with both hands outstretched.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Thinking I should have the pleasure of setting my foot in this fine country, I set off in the gig with two hands ordering the vessel to tow in after me and should a breeze spring up to get the launch in and stand after me for the bay.
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

They should be taken fresh from the press, however; for if they come into contact with the air, they will soon become sour and mouldy.
— from The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann

Mrs Valentine's distress could know no bounds, and both she and Mrs Bromley were full of indignation, woman-like, with everybody at the school.
— from Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge by F. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly

Watt accomplished this by hinging rods together in form of a parallelogram, in such a manner that, while three of the angles describe circles, the fourth moves in nearly a straight line.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

And I know Anglo-Saxon and Chemistry and Hindoo History and Sunrises and Sunsets and Mountains and Moose, and such things.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Oh, I don't say they're any better," she again made haste to say in arrest of her husband's resentment.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

She must have slipped out soon after midnight.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

I suspected as much.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker