And as he had decided that the importance which Odette attached to receiving cards tot a private view was not in itself any more ridiculous than the pleasure which he himself had at one time felt in going to luncheon with the Prince of Wales, so he did not think that the admiration which she professed for Monte-Carlo or for the Righi was any more unreasonable than his own liking for Holland (which she imagined as ugly) and for Versailles (which bored her to tears).
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

a [ See principally for the details of this affair, the Legislative Documents, 22d Congress, 2d Session, No. 30.] As early as the year 1820, South Carolina declared, in a petition to Congress, that the tariff was "unconstitutional, oppressive, and unjust.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Suddenly Préveraud felt a knee press against his, it was the knee of the policeman.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The time went slowly and sadly past, for she dearly loved her lord, but no husband appeared.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

We're all humbly grateful for your kindness, and as you see, puts faith in you and takes the drugs down like that much grog.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Should we not see many of them suddenly pass from grave to gay, on isolating them from the accompanying music of sentiment?
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

The others made their attack gallantly; but the enemy were fully prepared: every vessel was defended by long poles, headed with iron spikes, projecting from their sides: strong nettings were braced up to their lower yards; they were moored by the bottom to the shore, they were strongly manned with soldiers, and protected by land batteries, and the shore was lined with troops.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

It does not appear that the subjects or worshippers of such a spiritual potentate form to themselves any very clear notion of the exact relationship in which they stand to him; probably their ideas on the point are vague and fluctuating, and we should err if we attempted to define the relationship with logical precision.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

They dance very nicely together; I sometimes play for them.”
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

[Pg 87] "The artist of whom I purchased that splendid picture for the drawing-room—the last one, you know." "Yes," she said, languidly; "and what has he done now?"
— from An Old Man's Darling by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mr Candish named the haven where the fortress stood Port Famine , owing to the utter want of all necessaries.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

You shall pay for this!"
— from Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure by Victor Appleton

The red shape passed from view where Harkness stood.
— from Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

To the same sum the United Parliament stood pledged for the first period of twenty-eight years succeeding the Union.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

"Sure, I heard the captain come out on his side porch for a drink at the olla, sir, and saw him step over and look at the doctor's place before starting for the guard-house, and I knew he'd be around this way and was thinking to meet him up yonder where Number Four is, when I heard Six down here whistling to me, and when I went Six said as how the dogs way over at the store was barking a lot, and he said had I seen or heard anything in the willows—he's that young fellow that 'listed back at Wickenburg after the stage holdup—and while we was talkin' he grabbed me and said, 'Listen!
— from Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War by Charles King