I complimented him upon his situation, calling him a fortunate fellow, and applying the same epithet to myself for having gained him all the advantages he enjoyed, and the hope of one day becoming a secular priest.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But less still is its influence in Strategy; certainly here, also, form in the disposition of troops, the shape of countries and states is of great importance; but the geometrical element is not decisive, as in fortification, and not nearly so important as in tactics.—The manner in which this influence exhibits itself, can only be shown by degrees at those places where it makes its appearance, and deserves notice.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“She came here a fortnight ago with a man who calls himself her husband.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Provided always that this malady proceed not from overmuch study; for in such case he adds fuel to the fire, and nothing can be more pernicious: let him take heed he do not overstretch his wits, and make a skeleton of himself; or such inamoratos as read nothing but play-books, idle poems, jests, Amadis de Gaul, the Knight of the Sun, the Seven Champions, Palmerin de Oliva, Huon of Bordeaux, &c. Such many times prove in the end as mad as Don Quixote.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

O lovely Polly Stewart, &c. H2 anchor Fragment,—Damon
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Then, running to the place where he sat, she cast herself as far forward as she might, without taking thought to her clothes or to aught that was on the table, and clipped him close in her arms nor could, for word or deed of any there, be loosed from his neck till she was bidden of Messer Torello contain herself somewhat, for that time enough would yet be afforded her to embrace him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In order to set off these accomplishments, the intendant resolved that his foster children should not be pent up any longer in the narrow borders of the palace gardens, where he had always lived, so he bought a splendid country house a few miles from the capital, surrounded by an immense park.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

She found, on reaching home, that she had, as she intended, escaped seeing Mr Elliot; that he had called and paid them a long morning visit; but hardly had she congratulated herself, and felt safe, when she heard that he was coming again in the evening.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

So at eighteen years of age Clarissa Lovel's education was finished, and she came home alone from a quiet little suburban village just outside Paris, and having arrived to-night at the Great Northern Station, King's Cross, had still a long journey before her.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Saxon caught himself almost frowning.
— from The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck

If suffering could have atoned for my offenses, I have suffered.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Every woman by measuring her room can {28} learn how many dollars’ worth of goods she must buy before she can have a free carpet.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

“If beneficence be judged by the happiness which it diffuses, whose claim, by that proof, shall stand higher than that of Mrs. Montagu, from the munificence with which she celebrated her annual festival for those hapless Artificers who perform the most abject offices of any authorised calling in being the active guardians of our blazing hearths?
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

She crossed herself, and fled from them in fear, praying to be kept from temptation; and she would not return to her little cottage in the forest, but stayed in the village warning men against the evil demons who were tempting the starving people, till she too died of the famine, and her house was left wholly to the strangers.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

Totally dissatisfied with the conditions as had been represented to him by the United States commissioners, he asked for, and was granted, a council.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

It is commonly an enkindling of the whole power of the soul’s love for whatever she considers highest and fairest; it is, in fact, the love of something divine and unearthly, which, by a sort of illusion, connects itself with a personality.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are many indications of a passionate nature about her; but she has, evidently, so many adorers that she cannot have a favorite.
— from Madame Firmiani by Honoré de Balzac

Shortly after that angle was ascertained, the open car and the stand-ins were taken by the agents to a nearby garage where a photograph was taken to determine through closer study whether the angle of that shot could have accounted for the wounds in the President’s neck and the Governor’s 107 back.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission