But this news also was soon contradicted, and the honest Fischer informed me that my opera had had to be postponed till the autumn of that year.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Our emperor had not sent us to this country to commit such crimes, and they had better mind not again to fall into such guilt, as none of them would escape alive if it happened again.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The ‘Fairy’ Overflowing of the Meal-Chest. —‘An old woman came to the wife of Steven Callaghan and told her not to let Steven cut a certain hedge.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

At the present time, little if any objection is ever made to an entire and radical change in the crest—if this is wished at the time of a rematriculation—and as far as I can gather such changes appear to have always been permitted.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He began as he always did begin in such cases, for there had been such cases already, there had been attempts (and it may be observed I knew all this beforehand, I knew his nasty tactics by heart).
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Upon his head he clapped a steel cap, and this he covered by one of soft white leather, in which stood a nodding cock's plume.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Mrs. Nickleby looked very grand, not to say contemptuous, at this humiliating proposal; and, turning to the old gentleman, who had watched them during these whispers with absorbing eagerness, said: ‘If you will conduct yourself, sir, like the gentleman I should imagine you to be, from your language and—and—appearance, (quite the counterpart of your grandpapa, Kate, my dear, in his best days,) and will put your question to me in plain words, I will answer it.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

And albeit the day may be held to endure from now until nightfall, yet,—for that whoso taketh not somewhat of time in advance cannot, meseemeth, so well provide for the future and in order that what the new queen shall deem needful for the 46 morrow may be prepared,—methinketh the ensuing days should commence at this hour.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Other devotees throw themselves from the tops of precipices, and are dashed to pieces; some bury themselves alive in holes, which their own relatives have dug; some bind themselves with ropes or chains to trees, until they die; some keep gazing so long and so constantly at the heavens, that the muscles of their neck become contracted, and no aliment but liquids can pass into the stomach.
— from Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by John Scudder

" It surely came, and the hunters stayed all day by the fire.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 by Various

Sir Lyell, looking negligently at Miss Brinville, and then, from her faded beauty, casting a glance of comparison at the blooming prime of the lovely unknown by his side, carelessly answered, that he took tea but once in a day.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Behind Monsieur de La Rochefoucauld with his sphinx-like face, came Lenet with sorrowful countenance and trembling hands.
— from The War of Women, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas

Through the hall and up the stairs, as fast as the little feet could patter, never pausing till she reached mamma's room, where she buried her face in one of the sofa cushions; and there her mother found her some moments later.
— from Bessie and Her Friends by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

It then received several small contributions and the handsome sum of $18,000 from another Quaker, Jonathan Zane.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

Harriet happened to be alone with Margaret, as Mrs. Fitzpatrick went back with Lady Raymond; and she caressed and teazed her alternately all the way home, but Margaret could now bear teazing very bravely.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

To his surprise he alighted on a soft cushion, and then he scrambled quickly to his feet and looked around him.
— from Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum