I gave her a report of the whole conversation I had had with my niece the night before, and she was delighted.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Keep heart, and endure till prosperous fortune come.' Such words he utters, and sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face, and keeps his anguish hidden deep in his breast.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

"Why," she wrote, "did you not forget your heart also?
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It was to her quite strange and ugly, like some dream where she was degraded.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

‘And, besides, my future way of living will be so widely different to the past: so different to all you have been accustomed to—’ ‘Do you think, ma’am, I can’t bear what my missis can?
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, / 15 Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt —Only the strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling surrenders.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Presently it was whispered that Smith was drinking a good deal; then it was known that Smith was an habitual drunkard; and then people began to think, as they are apt to, that he had never been anything else.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

I had to keep my eyes pretty well on the ground before me, lest I should stumble, for I knew that to stumble was death.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

P. H. She was described as sociable, good-natured, bright enough, not inclined to be depressed.
— from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch

Giving itself to them for greater things Than filled their souls with dim imaginings.
— from An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three by Madison Julius Cawein

His dress is given with the most minute accuracy in DOhhsons work: it consists of a fine pelisse, over a rich embroidered silk gown, made in the fashion of the capital; a khandjar, or dagger, set with diamonds, stuck in his belt; and a kaouk, or high bonnet, on his head.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

After all, the Mexicans had only lost an insignificant piece of ground, scarcely worth defence; for the old presidio was not the key of the place, of which it was only a questionable dependency, and from which it was separated by the breadth of the river.
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

And what should we do without a penny of money?”
— from The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

For the second was distinctly mercenary.
— from Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Owen Johnson

They all lay down with their clothes on so we did the same, taking off only our coats.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers

The first thing that Mary did on getting to her own room was to drink off about twenty drops of sal-volatile, in the smallest possible quantity of water—she had latterly given herself the habit of taking these stimulants—and then as soon as she had changed her dress, and carefully folded up and put away the blood-stained one, together with her own and Helena's handkerchief, she went down-stairs, and appeared to be very much as usual for the remainder of the evening.
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan