Here Little John stopped and set down the baskets, for he did not care to go into the town lest he should, perchance, meet some of the Sheriff's men.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

He had a large share of pride, which had hitherto found itself very comfortable in the world, despising Old Goggles, and reposing in the sense of unquestioned rights; but now this same pride met with nothing but bruises and crushings.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“How can you ask why?” said Princess Mary.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A feeling of false shame prevented my retracing my steps, as it might have looked as if I had been afraid.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These examples are of the first kind for me; of the second, there are others that I could find out in the same person: many of these rare examples surpass the force of my action, but some of them, moreover, surpass the force of my judgment.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

] Note 90 ( return ) [ Sixty-five years before Christ, Syria Pontusque monumenta sunt Cn.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Here comes a big, rough dog—a countryman's dog—in search of his master, smelling at everybody's heels and touching little Annie's hand with his cold nose, but hurrying away, though she would fain have patted him.—Success to your search, Fidelity!—And there sits a great yellow cat upon a window-sill, a very corpulent and comfortable cat, gazing at this transitory world with owl's eyes, and making pithy comments, doubtless, or what appear such, to the silly beast.—Oh, sage puss, make room for me beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Je ne souhaite pas m'étendre sur ce sujet, mais certains ont vraiment le don de vous énerver.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He shook hands with his son, who departed without having broken bread in his father's house, a little dashed by the coldness of his reception, but not entirely without hope that some profit might arise to him out of this connection in the future.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

That was Ruth's description of the family, and I think it will do very well, though some people might say it began at the wrong end.
— from The Thirteen Little Black Pigs, and Other Stories by Mrs. Molesworth

; others were small political malefactors, noisy against the oppressions of their hero, Cromwell, and conspirators against his power; and, thrown by him in English jails, were only delivered to be sold into slavery, driven through the streets of market-towns, placed [Pg 28] on troop ships between the decks, among the horses, and set up at auction in Barbadoes, like the blacks; whence they in time continued onward westward.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

In the midst of her new tremor the glass doors were again thrown open, and in walked the Dean—a short, plain man, with a mirthful eye, a substantial person, and legs which became his knee-breeches.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Poor beloved, your work has done to our idyll what the winter does to the trees and flowers—the sap has retired deep into the bottom of your heart, and often I have feared it was quite dead; but now I see it was not: it was only lulled to sleep and I shall possess my Toto once more, beautiful, blooming, and perfumed as in those glorious days of our first love.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

On the way the soldiers pillaged me of all the money I had about me, and took from me three gold rings, one of which was my seal, another was set with seven diamonds, which were of considerable value, and the third was a gimmall ring.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr