I admired in him the wisdom of which I was so much in need, and did not venture upon any more indiscreet questions.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Such music is not for the piano, and her audience began to get restive, and Cecil, sharing the discontent, called out: “Now play us the other garden—the one in Parsifal.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Accordingly, they tried to bear with patience the calamity they were under, as he exhorted them to do; yet was he once almost going to kill himself, upon the overthrow of a waggon, and the danger his mother was then in of being killed; and this on two accounts, because of his great concern for her, and because he was afraid lest, by this delay, the enemy should overtake him in the pursuit: but as he was drawing his sword, and going to kill himself therewith, those that were present restrained him, and being so many in number, were too hard for him; and told him that he ought not to desert them, and leave them a prey to their enemies, for that it was not the part of a brave man to free himself from the distresses he was in, and to overlook his friends that were in the same distresses also.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Upon my word, I can only answer, because you are so much improved.' 'No, Pa.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But when the second member is negative, it has oftener necne than an nōn : as, hoc quaerāmus, vērum sit an falsum , Clu.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

So, they were as pleasant a party as, under the circumstances, they could well have been; and it was late before they retired, with light and thankful hearts, to take that rest of which, after the doubt and suspense they had recently undergone, they stood much in need.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And now, my dearest Sir, may I not call for your congratulations upon the events of this day?
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

However, no such man is needed, and we believe that it is pure democracy to rejoice that, in this department as in others, it is no longer some one great genius that concentrates within himself the vital energy of his time.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

Morally speaking, you are in a sad state, my dear; and you stand much in need of a good example.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

The ingenuity of thousands of our most skilful men is now turned in this direction, and stimulated by a demand which will obviously insure a fortune to the successful competitor.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Once in the crush of those gorilla-like arms that were working over his bed now, he thought, and it would be all over with the strongest man in "N" Division.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood

I mention this to show that so much importance need not have been attached to the destruction of the bridge, as both here, and near Castro Gonzales, the river was perfectly fordable, for [85] near the latter place the French cavalry forded it on the following morning.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

It strikes me I never heard anybody call her anything but Miss Edgar.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The very entertaining of such an idea is of itself folly; but so much is nevertheless correct, that the examples are not to be erased from universal history, in which many a one, even to his twenty-eighth year,–I am two years older,–knew not a word of it, that an Asiatic or some other throne awaited him, wherefrom he afterward, when he came to it, wielded a magnificent sway.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul