What this meant, and the respect with which I thereupon regarded the artistic conditions of Magdeburg, may be best imagined if one remembers the neglected and forlorn surroundings amid which such provincial theatres usually drag out their lives.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

‘The Lintons heard us, and with one accord they shot like arrows to the door; there was silence, and then a cry, “Oh, mamma, mamma!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Considering the enormous amount of fighting that had gone on for centuries before Sun Tzu's time between the various kingdoms and principalities of China, it is not in itself improbable that a collection of military maxims should have been made and written down at some earlier period.]
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on board as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, but upon what account I do not yet know.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I should indeed like to go to school,” was the audible conclusion of my musings.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Education, of these accidental causes of melancholy, may justly challenge the next place, for if a man escape a bad nurse, he may be undone by evil bringing up.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.
— from The Iliad by Homer

[ On this miracle, as it is commonly called, of the thundering legion, see the admirable criticism of Mr. Moyle, in his Works, vol.
— 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

To-night all those who were my friends in my poorer days will meet under my roof to celebrate the event and I am going to offer to each one as a little token a copy of my "Memoirs," which for the last six months I have been writing and which to-day I have received from the bookbinder.
— from Nobody's Boy Sans Famille by Hector Malot

When she saw that her mother allowed them to learn their lessons anyhow she made little rules for herself and her sisters—the rules were so playful and so light that the others, for mere fun, followed them—thus they insisted on their mother hearing them their daily tasks; they insisted on going regularly twice a week to a certain old Miss Martineau, who gave them lessons on an antiquated piano, and taught them obsolete French.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

He had ordered new furniture from Swampington,––another man would have ordered it from London; but Mr. Marchmont was bent upon being popular, and did not despise even the good opinion of a local tradesman,––and by several other acts, insignificant enough in themselves, had asserted his ownership of the mansion which had been the airy castle of Mary Marchmont's day–dreams ten years before.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Any societies or institutions that have to send delegates to a conference or meeting might very easily bring this conception to a practical test.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He has contrived things so various as the self-acting mule and the best electro-magnet, wet gas-meters and dry planing machines, iron billard-tables and turret-clocks, the centrifugal railway and the drill slotting-machine, an apparatus for making cigars and machinery for the propulsion and equipment of steamships; so that he may almost be regarded as the Admirable Crichton of modern mechanics.
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

He had not deceived her after all, owing to the angry chatter of Mrs. Meserve.
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

"Are you going to practice this afternoon?" whispered 81 Geraldine Macy to Marjorie as they left the algebra class on Monday morning.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman by Josephine Chase

Looking back just below here, we saw the tower and cloisters of Mount Melleray, the Trappist monastery.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

When making gravy, prepare enough so that a cup or more may be set aside to use in the macaroni dishes.
— from Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson