Pushkin suffered terrible agonies before his death, poor Heine lay paralyzed for several years; why, then, should not some Andrey Yefimitch or Matryona Savishna be ill, since their lives had nothing of importance in them, and would have been entirely empty and like the life of an amoeba except for suffering?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Stepan Arkadyevitch said to Levin, hardly leaving time for everyone to utter their greetings.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Solomon makes Wisdom say "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
— 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

And, while he spoke, the Lion ran And put to flight the bragging man.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

When the fathers perceived that such schemes were in agitation, thinking it advisable to offer them, of their own accord, what they were sure to lose; they thus conciliate the favour of the people by yielding to them the supreme power, yet in such a manner as to grant them no greater privilege than they reserved to themselves.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

"Except me," screamed the little fellow without a name, who had crept into the breast-feathers of the eagle.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But still the Lembkes did not come.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A smell of hawthorn and of orchards came to them through the darkness, telling them that a wind was awake; the next moment it swayed their little boat and swelled their sail, and carried them onward down the winding river to happier places and the homes of harmless men.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

They strain their faculties to the utmost to achieve paltry results, and this cannot fail speedily to limit their discernment and to circumscribe their powers.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Mas’r took it into his head to send me right by here, with a note to Mr. Symmes, that lives a mile past.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I warn you to speak true," said the leader, suddenly removing his gaze from the specimen motor and staring icily down at Dex.
— from The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst

[Pg 223] There are, of course, able and honorable attorneys employed by railroad companies, but often railroad lawyers are selected more for their political influence, tact and ingenuity than for legal ability, and, as a rule, the political lawyer receives much better compensation for his services than does the lawyer who attends strictly to legitimate legal work.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

When I am suffered to live at home I live in Tennessee.
— from Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners. by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

"You surely don't expect me to run about in the dust and shelling to look for it, and Mr. L. is too busy."
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

Just at first, it is true, he had discussed the subjects that lay nearest to his own heart.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

Very fat, with shining coat and a good-natured air, he seemed to lead the existence of a sage, sheltered from the evils of the world above.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

Although the two leaders had had only casual meetings in their earlier years, their previous acquaintance seemed to lighten the tenseness of the situation.
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey