This was abundantly sufficient to awaken the curiosity of Mr Adams, as indeed it did that of the whole company, who jointly solicited the lady to acquaint them with Leonora's history, since it seemed, by what she had said, to contain something remarkable.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

In short, the almost torpid creatures of my own fancy twitted me with imbecility, and not without fair occasion.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Because, considering my name, my position as a solitary traveler and the color of my hair, I have already reached the same conclusion, and now think that I should be arrested.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

He dined with us, and after dinner took coach and carried him with us as far as my cozen Scott’s, where we set him down and parted, and my wife and I staid there at the christening of my cozens boy, where my cozen Samuel Pepys, of Ireland, and I were godfathers, and I did name the child Samuel.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At the office all the morning, where comes a damned summons to attend the Committee of Miscarriages to-day, which makes me mad, that I should by my place become the hackney of this Office, in perpetual trouble and vexation, that need it least.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the course of the evening the law student suddenly comprehended his position; he saw that, as the cousin of Mme.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Providence must have smiled, then, at these complaints of mine, for tonight I am on the way to rob my husband's safe of my sister-in-law's money.
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

I am aware that those who say that ethics is a science will say that all this commentary of mine is nothing but rhetoric; but each man has his own language and his own passion—that is to say, each man who knows what passion is—and as for the man who knows it not, nothing will it avail him to know science.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

forgive me i mean to do rite i will send the anser to Crishowell on market day your obliged friend “M ARY V AUGHAN .”
— from The Sheep-Stealers by Violet Jacob

It is probable that the fire thus kindled will spread through all the cities of my kingdom, and that all those of the said religion will be made sure of."
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

They had gone across the street to avoid the crowd of men and boys that hung like a pack of hounds about the prisoner, but were gazing after him with anxious faces, that touched even the officer with pity, as his glance fell upon them.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Ages ago a clock in the great house known as Primrose Hall, not far from the famous region of “Sleepy Hollow,” had struck three, then four, and now one, two, three, four, five solemn strokes boomed forth and yet not a glimmer of light nor a sound to announce the coming of morning.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

Sittah, they are The children of my brother and of yours.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Juve decided to spend the whole night, if necessary, to find Wulf, and began a systematic search through all the cafés of Montmartre.
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

A distinguished French littérateur , fresh from the sunny banks of the Seine, thus discourses anent the Ancient capital; we translate:— "Few cities," says M. Marmier, [2] "offer as many striking contrasts as Quebec, a fortress and a commercial city together, built upon the summit of a rock as the nest of an eagle, while her vessels are everywhere wrinkling the face of the ocean; an American city inhabited by French colonists, governed by England, and garrisoned with Scotch regiments; [3] a city of the middle ages by most of its ancient institutions, while it is submitted to all the combinations of modern constitutional government; an European city by its civilization and its habits of refinement, and still close by, the remnants of the Indian tribes and the barren mountains of the north, a city of about the same latitude as Paris, while successively combining the torrid climate of southern regions with the severities of an hyperborean winter; a city at the same time Catholic and Protestant, where the labours of our (French) missions are still uninterrupted alongside of the undertakings of the Bible Society, and where the Jesuits driven out of our own country (France) find a place of refuge under the aegis of British Puritanism!"
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

The learned men at the head of the establishment might safely despise the attempt at those hidden arts as impossible; or, even if they were of a more credulous disposition, they might be unwilling to make laws by which their own enquiries in the mathematics, algebra, chemistry, and other pursuits vulgarly supposed to approach the confines of magic art, might be inconveniently restricted.
— from Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott