The reply which came back styled him simply Uyésama, the title borne by the head of the Tokugawa family before his formal recognition as Shôgun by the Mikado's Court.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Wherefore, accosting her, he entered into parley with her and so led on from one thing to another that he came to an accord with her and brought her to his cell, unperceived of 31 any; but whilst, carried away by overmuch ardour, he disported himself with her less cautiously than was prudent, it chanced that the abbot arose from sleep and softly passing by the monk's cell, heard the racket that the twain made together; whereupon he came stealthily up to the door to listen, that he might the better recognize the voices, and manifestly perceiving that there was a woman in the cell, was at first minded to cause open to him, but after bethought himself to hold another course in the matter and, returning to his chamber, awaited the monk's coming forth.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

If the wind and the rain had driven away the intervening years, had scattered all the intervening objects, had swept us to the churchyard where we first stood face to face on such different levels, I could not have known my convict more distinctly than I knew him now as he sat in the chair before the fire.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

But, on the other hand, we must not lose sight of the fact that the material which gives employment to a man's powers and keeps them in activity,—the subject-matter of thought and knowledge, experience, intellectual attainments, the practice of seeing to the bottom of things, and so a perfect mental vision, form in themselves a mass which continues to increase in size, until the time comes when weakness shows itself, and the man's powers suddenly fail.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The character and situation of his colleagues and successors sometimes urged them to enforce and sometimes inclined them to suspend, the execution of these rigorous laws; nor can we acquire a just and distinct idea of this important period of ecclesiastical history, unless we separately consider the state of Christianity, in the different parts of the empire, during the space of ten years, which elapsed between the first edicts of Diocletian and the final peace of the church.
— 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

His old wet, cracked hat he laid softly upon the table.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

And also ye shall understand, that the Jews have no proper land of their own for to dwell in, in all the world, but only that land between the mountains.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Allusion has already been made to the glittering objects upon masts that stood upon the terrace of the nearer building.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He told us before he went away that he was engaged on the morrow, and so could not come to see us till the day after.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The birds and the mists and the flowers are twining in a [13] wreath, a wreath that stretches up to the clouds!
— from The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson

There's some moss around here, on reddish brown rocks that stick up through the sand, just on the shady side, though.
— from The Dope on Mars by Jack Sharkey

"She used to taunt me with that," he went on, "taunt me with striking Donald MacRae.
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Marian, in a strange and overpowering tumult—Marian, who was the first and most intimately concerned, her cheek burning still under the touch of her lover’s trembling lip in that second and more solemn betrothal, sat on a stool, half hidden by Miss Anastasia’s big chair and ample skirts, supporting her flushed cheeks on those pretty rose-tipped hands, to which the flush seemed to have extended, her beautiful hair drooping down among her fingers, her eyes cast down, her heart leaping like a bird against her breast.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Presently the boy who had the green satchel under the tree with Roger, who was sitting in one corner of the room, said, "I should think they would keep the squirrels from eating them.
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

she cried, and Seaton, stepping up to the window, rapped sharply upon the glass with the butt of his pistol and raised both hands high above his head in the universal sign of peace.
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

He meets the Plague and its terrors like a gentleman, but shows us, through the vicarious torments of the cowering Levantine that it was courage and coolness, not insensibility, which bore him through it.
— from A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study by William Tuckwell

"But they are so unworldly that they don't think of effect," said Mrs. Fluffy.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

" "Very well, then," said Imogene, with the air of summing up; "then the only question is whether we shall make it known or not to other people.
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

In general, there is no alternative but experiment (directed by probabilities) of every tongue known to him who attempts the solution, until the true one be attained.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe