Addresses of this or the like sort can be received and answered, in the hearing of all France: the Salle de Manege is still useful as a place of proclamation.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Ug butasyunun (ibutasiyun) ni sigúrung dì mahinayun, If it is put to a vote, it won’t go through.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When we stopped to breathe, and I had time to see all about me, the clearness and sweetness of the night, the shapes of the hills like things asleep, and the fire dwindling away behind us, like a bright spot in the midst of the moor, anger would come upon me in a clap that I must still drag myself in agony and eat the dust like a worm.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

"So now I am a breast-pin," said the darning-needle; "I knew very well I should come to honor some day: merit is sure to rise;" and she laughed, quietly to herself, for of course no one ever saw a darning-needle laugh.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I should dishonor myself if I betrayed that confidence by uttering one insincere word, or by withholding one essential element of the truth.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Passing to the following part of the tale, we find in it a description of canoe-building, and this was given to me in the same detailed manner in all three versions.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

She was alarmed at my behaviour, entreated me to rise lest her brother should discover me in that posture, and to spare her for the present upon a subject for which she was altogether unprepared.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Another expression for the same disagreeable method is to "send to Coventry."
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

Men laughed, but Prim stood his ground; and gradually the question, “What will Spain do?” merged into that of “What will Prim do?”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

"I have better sight than when I was a lad of twenty," said Don Melchor in a loud, decided voice for all to hear.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

“Robert,” said Dom Miguel, “I present you to General Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca.”
— from The Fate of a Crown by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

His age of chivalry is an imaginary age, in which stately, high-born men, clad in armour of burnished silver or of some dull metal inlaid with gold, and wearing silver helmets, plumed or unplumed, or iron helmets surmounted by golden eagles' wings, the visors sometimes raised, sometimes lowered, ride forth upon fiery chargers of all breeds and all colours, shiver each other's lances, and yet sit as if moulded in the saddle, or else fall to the earth only to rise as quick as lightning and draw a two-edged sword.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

In order to avoid greater confusion to both of us, she enquired who had made my watch ribbon; I told her it was a present from my sister, and she desired to examine it, but when I answered her that it was fastened to the fob-pocket, and found that she disbelieved me, I added that she could see for herself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 01: Childhood by Giacomo Casanova

Now, Cambridge, in his setting hence for France, Or by the way, or as he goes abroad, To do the deed, what was indifferent too, Yet somewhat doubtful, might I speak my mind.
— from Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Yet all along the shores of that lake land, with the exception of the richest alluvial creek estuaries, can be bought for three dollars an acre, even on flat topped bluffs and near rock springs in sheltered dells, more inviting than the finest artificial parks.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

I should despise myself if it were possible that I could forget the affection of my heart in what appears to me the unsubstantial vanities of life.
— from Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales by Hall, S. C., Mrs.