Their way lay from the Petersburg Side to Kolomna.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Each of them gave twenty sequins to King Theodore to buy him clothes and linen; and Candide made him a present of a diamond worth two thousand sequins.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Now, I do complain of this and with just cause, so long as $2,000 of the sainted Hovey's money are sunk annually in the struggle to keep the Standard afloat, while Mr. Hovey's will expressly says: "In case chattel slavery should be abolished before the expenditure of the full amount, the residue shall be applied toward securing woman's rights," etc.
— 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

Then, said the king, I give her to you, and go ye to the fire and take her, and do with her what ye will.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Then said the king, Ye say truth, and for to tempt God it is no wisdom, and therefore make you ready and return we into England.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

" To this the Sheriff answered never a word, but all the blood left his cheeks, and he caught at the pommel of his saddle to keep himself from falling; for he also saw the fellow that so shouted, and knew him to be Friar Tuck; and, moreover, behind Friar Tuck he saw the faces of Robin Hood and Little John and Will Scarlet and Will Stutely and Allan a Dale and others of the band.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The first person I asked gave me more in reply than I sought to know; he showed me the house, and told me all that had occurred at the betrothal of the daughter of the family, an affair of such notoriety in the city that it was the talk of every knot of idlers in the street.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They shut him up in a narrow box, in which he was compelled to stand, and in which finely sharpened nails were fixed all round about him, so that he could not lean upon any part of it without intense pain; and so they killed him by depriving him of sleep.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Under the walnut tree, supposed to keep flies at a distance, sat Lady Selina in front of a table not groaning but pleasantly purring beneath pre-war delicacies.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

“Need we think of that since we are to save the king?
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I was behind the Duke; a beam struck me down, I thought among the dead, but some friars found me and brought me back to life; of Della Scala they knew nothing."
— from The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy by Marjorie Bowen

Then outside the door she saw the little path and suddenly she seemed to know where it would lead and how, and she had no fear at all of the wood.
— from In the Border Country by Josephine Daskam Bacon

She had kissed him at departure, but not as usual effusively, and he had suffered the kiss in enmity; and after an unimaginable general upset and confusion, in which George had shown himself strangely querulous, she had driven off with her son,--unconscious, stupidly unaware, that she was leaving a disaster behind her.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

In § 23 I intend to show that Kant's proof, propounded with a similar intent, is false.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The English followed on, and at Alnwick castle surprised the king with only a few knights, his personal guard.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

The unravelling of the mystery of Gertrude Wylde had been to him a romance of the most fascinating kind; but now that the romance had culminated, no one seemed to know what to do with it.
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

‘I don’t think they saw us,’ said the king, and stared as the light went swooping up the mountain side, hung for a second about a hayrick, and then came pouring back.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She really seemed to know what she was about, which the others felt could not be said of them.
— from The Wonderful Garden; or, The Three Cs by E. (Edith) Nesbit