Whether it was due to his feud with Stremov, or his misfortune with his wife, or simply that Alexey Alexandrovitch had reached his destined limits, it had become evident to everyone in the course of that year that his career was at an end.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"I won't be so silly, or hurt Marmee's feelings, when she took so much pains to get my things.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"Did you see how he blushed at the mention of poor George on duty?" "It's a pity Frederick Bullock hadn't some of his modesty, Maria," replies the elder sister, with a toss of he head.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Some persons of quality having begged M. de Comminges to invite him to his house, that they might be witnesses of some of his miracles, the ambassador promised to satisfy them, as much to gratify his own curiosity as from courtesy to his friends; and gave notice to Greatraks that he would be glad to see him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

They weren’t sure of how much you had learnt in that house.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

This is by the same reason that I gave before, and as Martial says of himself: “Minus illi ingenio laborandum fuit, in cujus locum materia successerat:” [“He had the less for his wit to do that the subject itself supplied what was necessary.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But considering that it would not become him, nor be right, to begin any new emprise until he had established Micomicona in her kingdom, he was constrained to hold his peace and wait quietly to see what would be the upshot of the proceedings of those same travellers; one of whom found the youth they were seeking lying asleep by the side of a muleteer, without a thought of anyone coming in search of him, much less finding him.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The king, lifting his hands to the sky, thanked the captain, and requested him to let some of his men remain [with him], so that he and his people might be better instructed in the faith.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Bacchus was the foster-child of Ino, who was the sister of his mother Semele.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

With a small soldering outfit he mended the hole in the water tank, stopping the leak.
— from The Motor Boys Overland; Or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune by Clarence Young

They purchase this right, as we do, by treaty; but their treaties are made with the Indian subjects of Her Majesty.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

He is the buyer of Canada's railway stocks, of her municipal, street railway, irrigation and public works bonds.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

He was a boy then, and some one had made his heart glad with the gift of a small axe.
— from History of the United States in Words of One Syllable by Helen Wall Pierson

True, Mrs Stannard commanded the services of a nurse-boy called September, but the latter was mostly busy with the pots and pans, and Aimée preferred the society of her mother or, failing that, of Bettington.
— from Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

"Speaking of His Majesty," I cut in, "how much did you have to do with Noda's fake sword?
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

I happened to be standing on the steps of the throne: the Duke showed me the sketch of his motion.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

Her countenance was probably in the habit of very promptly expressing the state of her mind, and it now seemed to say to her father, "I hope that what you have said will not make him decline what you offer!
— from A Bicycle of Cathay by Frank Richard Stockton

Hugo are an indelible stain on his memory, and his infamy not only cost him his most precious friendships, but crippled him in every high endeavor.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

The story of "How Mary Matilda Won a Prince" was the third in what Field called his "Aunt Mary Matilda Series."
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson