H2 anchor CHAPTER II The day after his son had left, Prince Nicholas sent for Princess Mary to come to his study.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If, as I have, you also doe Vertue'attir'd in woman see, And dare love that, and say so too, 20 And forget the Hee and Shee; And if this love, though placed so, From prophane men you hide, Which will no faith on this bestow, Or, if they doe, deride: 25
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Thus he said, and he proceeded to do the deed as he spoke the word: for as soon as day dawned, he summoned fifteen Persians, men of repute, and bade them pass through the coasts of Hellas in company with Demokedes, and take care not to let Demokedes escape from them, but bring him back at all costs.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

What reminiscences of a human subject suffering from progressive melancholia did these objects evoke in Bloom? An old man, widower, unkempt of hair, in bed, with head covered, sighing: an infirm dog, Athos: aconite, resorted to by increasing doses of grains and scruples as a palliative of recrudescent neuralgia: the face in death of a septuagenarian, suicide by poison.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

If some false principles misled her, how many admirable ones did she not possess, which never forsook her!
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

s. , S; forbed , S; forbadde , pt. s. , PP; forbad , MD; uorbed , S2; fforbode , pl. , MD; forbude , subj.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Tom rowed with untired vigor, and with a different speed from poor Maggie's.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

s. , S; forgan , pp. , MD; forgone , MD, S3.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

She fled past Mrs. Crawford, sitting with the sleeping baby across her lap and looking up anxiously, with good cause for misgiving since she had heard her husband go up the stair.
— from The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

and she should lose all his help and—— Then she called herself horridly selfish, and lastly she felt very sorry for poor Maud, who would lose both her sister and her lover.
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart

"Instead of sending money, he wrote this: 'Full many a favor, dear friend, hast thou done me, For which good hard coin glad wouldst thou be to see There's none in my pockets; so for the debt In place of dirty coin, This written sheet so fine; Paper money in Leyden is easy to get.'" "Excellent!" cried Junker von Warmond, "and besides you made the die for the pasteboard coins yourself."
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

Something fled past me up the strand, shrieking inhuman passion; the Eyes of my enemy glared briefly across my vision.
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

“It is very sad to give over our search for poor Mitford,” said Dr Hayward one morning, while seated on a ledge of rock near the beach, taking counsel with his male companions as to the order of procedure for the day, “but we cannot afford to delay our operations longer.
— from The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Mother's hurt herself," said Fanny: "poor mother!"
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

She was pleased to have hindered her son from paying marked attention to a person in Madame Cyprienne's doubtful position.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

Illic olor , sui funeris praeco, mellitae citherizationis organo vitae prophetabat apocopam.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

, it may be safely inferred that at this time public decorum was, at all events, not outraged by Villiers, whatever the private course of his existence may have been; and however humiliating it is to reflect that a character so noble, so incapable of baseness, of such fair promise, may yet have been tinged with vices that infallibly brush away much of the finest attributes of virtuous youth, it must, at the same time, be allowed, that to remain incorrupt in the reign of James, would have argued almost super-human strength of character.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.