We heard a fearful scream from Mavriky Nikolaevitch as he dashed to her assistance and struck with all his strength the man who stood between him and Liza.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You’ll see Fyodor Matveyevitch, sir …” “Yes, my friend, yes … Fyodor Petrovitch … only good-bye.” II “You see, my friend … you’ll allow me to call myself your friend, n’est-ce pas?”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

we sent out 10 hunters to procure some fresh meat.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Trembling with eagerness, I now commenced another search for my phosphorus matches and tapers.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

(She from Marpessa sprung, divinely fair, And matchless Idas, more than man in war: The god of day adored the mother's charms; Against the god the father bent his arms: The afflicted pair, their sorrows to proclaim, From Cleopatra changed their daughter's name, And call'd Alcyone; a name to show The father's grief, the mourning mother's woe.)
— from The Iliad by Homer

And then said Sir Tristram to Sir Lamorak: I require you if ye hap to meet with Sir Palomides, say him that he shall find me at the same well where I met him, and there I, Sir Tristram, shall prove whether he be better knight than I.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

—Mrs. Judge Taylor sent for me to come over to see her today.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The ice, that had held under those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I was quite astonished, and unable to speak for a while; but yet I was inwardly ashamed to take the stockings; for Mrs. Jervis was not there: If she had, it would have been nothing.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

If I undertake to keep you cognizant of Bruce-Errington's little goings-on in London,—information which, I dare say, you can turn to good account,—you must do something for me.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

We spent ourselves in a mutually copious ejaculation, and she kept heaving and wriggling, still insatiable for more, keeping me as stiff as exer, making me, boy as I was then, overflow three times before she finished me, whilst as to herself it was one continuous emission as long as I could go on pushing into her.
— from Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and exciting story, and More forbidden fruit; or, Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle by Anonymous

If I were to give a full description to do justice to the magnificent spectacle I would have to quote from the journals of that epoch, and if I were a painter I could not find a greater subject for my art.
— from Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose

Brazilian soil first made the acquaintance of the coffee plant at Pará in 1723.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I then took a series of short and rapid whiffs of my pipe while I bethought me of the best manner of treating the subject of my visit, and then said, "that few orientals could draw a distinction between politics and geography; but that with a man of his calibre and experience, I was safe from misinterpretation—that I was collecting the materials for a work on the Danubian provinces, and that for any information which he might give me, consistently with the exigencies of his official position, [21] I should feel much indebted, as I thought I was least likely to be misunderstood by stating clearly the object of my journey to the authorities, while information derived from the fountain-head was the most valuable."
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton

The wallowing upheaval caused by the belching gas would readily suggest the part-seen back or side of some formless monster, whose gambols were agitating the water and 235 causing billows to surge upon the weed-fringed shore; and a bittern's hollow boom quivering on the still night air, would easily be construed by the credulous and ignorant as the bellow of this fearsome monster that they thought they had seen wheeling and plunging.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

It absolves from sin, destroys the power of Satan, gives strength for martyrdom, and, in fine, brings every good.”— Costeri.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

'Tis the English lieutenant that gave me a scowl for my bow.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens