Upon his demurring about it, he lashed him most severely, now and then commending his voice, whilst he entreated for mercy, as being well modulated even when he was venting his grief.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I shall not attempt to conquer her by force alone; but I shall insist on reasonable obedience from the start.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

You insist so much on my not neglecting my drawing, that it would be as well for me to say nothing as to confess how little I have lately done.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Naturally the sight impressed him, and proved to him that not all the aristocracy had left Moscow; that at least some nobles and their children had remained behind.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I accepted his invitation, and promised to say nothing about the circumstance he had mentioned.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Spent nearly all the Christmas holidays addressing and sending off petitions.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

ith much shaking of the head); had not seen him with deceased—but here the police inspector handed the coroner a scribbled note, and the coroner having read it and passed it back, said no more.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

"Why, you see, I talks more with one 'Squire Newcome, as they calls him, though he's no more of a real 'squire than you be—only a sort of an attorney, like, such as they has in this country.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Or else take ore which has been ground to powder and sprinkle it in a crucible, and then sprinkle over it an equal quantity of salt that has been three or four times moistened with urine and dried; then, again and again alternately, powdered ore and salt; next, after the crucible has been covered with a lid and sealed, it is placed upon burning charcoal.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

The giant British offensive was drowned in mud and blood on the Somme, and the Russian offensive went to pieces before Lemberg; and meantime John Cutter stowed his barrels of apples in the cellar, and got the last of his corn-crop husked, and drove his load of pumpkins to market; and then one Saturday night, after the cows had come in, wet and steaming with November rain, he informed his hired man that he would not need his services after that month, he would no longer be able to afford “help”.
— from Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

They are significant names; and the "Constitution" had little to do then, and has little to do now, with their domination.
— from The Historic Thames by Hilaire Belloc

Before he knows what he has done, without really meaning to do it, he has thrown the badge across Sordello's neck, and thus created him Eccelino's successor.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

He was not kept long waiting, for the second night after the captain had been satisfied that no more coal could be stored with any convenience down came the storm again, lasting a couple of days, and the last hope of the weather becoming open that season departed.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn