They all looked close at it and the mother said: “That must be Sam,” and then she shouted: “Hi, Gaspard!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When they at last came to believe it, they were filled with sorrow and met in the senate-house, but were ready to break up without accomplishing anything, when finally Fabius proposed that they send scouts to bring a report of what had really happened and what Hannibal was doing.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

In the place of wanting to see things, to travel and learn, comes the desire to speak and teach.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The period in question was that in which badges were so largely used, and it is not unlikely that, desiring to vie with his brother of England, and fired by the Page 271 {271} example of the broom badge and the rose badge, the Scottish king, remembering the ancient legend, chose the thistle as his own badge.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

We cannot, unfortunately, like Samuel Pepys, take a long cloak now-a-days to the tailor’s, to be cut into a short one, ‘long cloaks being now quite out,’ as he tells us.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Timon gave the diamond to a lord called Sempronius, and the lord exclaimed, “O, he's the very soul of bounty.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Every Saturday afternoon the boarders were hurried off to a little corrugated iron mission hall where Miss Eccles (of London) held her “select” classes.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"It seems as if I had to give up everybody that I ever cared for," she said to herself, not complainingly, but as one recognizing the fact that some persons are always more or less lonely in the world, and that she belonged to a lonely class.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I was not then aware that a legally-certified copy was necessary, and that no document merely drawn out by myself could claim the proper importance as a proof.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Thus she was able to force her way through ice which would have been impassable to a lighter craft.
— from The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "“Discovery”" by G. Firth Scott

Accustomed to blind obedience from her infancy, the girl choked back her rising tears and went to a little cupboard let into the wall, out of which she took two small vials, each containing about a fluid ounce of colourless liquid.
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

Chocolate, tea, and little cakes were served, which I supposed was the signal for departure.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

We now followed the river south-south-west, through a level country covered with dense brigalow scrub, passing only one low rocky hill, on the left bank, at 11.20.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

“My Lord Count,” said Fabian, who was willing to try a last chance, “in five minutes the poignard will have ceased to cast a shadow.”
— from Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid

No sandy watercourse, the 'Pass' of this barbarous land, here facilitates the travellers' advance: the rapid slope of the hill presents a succession of blocks and boulders piled one upon the other in rugged steps, apparently impossible to a laden camel.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There is first a « 226 » small, then a larger chamber.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch

Crowned with the laurels of a hundred victories, the princely veteran there gathered around him a more distinguished staff than had ever sat in his councils of war—men who, endued with intellectual might and moral greatness, were to achieve lasting conquests in the realm of mind.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

After travelling some miles we came to a little country village, where a few hovels were collected together, and some patches of ground cultivated with potatoes.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

"O son of Sohail," said Djamil to him, "what do you think of a man who has never drunk wine, who has never made illicit gain, who has never unrighteously given death to any living creature that God has forbidden us to kill, and who confesses that there is no other God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet?"
— from On Love by Stendhal