‘Sup, then, and make as little noise as possible,’ said the priest, ‘for I, too, have been on the go all day and shall not be sorry to sleep to-night.’”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They had all suddenly become talkative and merry; a lively joy filled all hearts.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Whether thou be’st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, 115 The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave— An if this be at all—a most strange story.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

THE END OF THE FIRST LETTER H2 anchor LETTER THE SECOND Madam: If I have delayed the sequel of my history, it has been purely to allow myself a little breathing time not without some hopes, that, instead of pressing me to a continuation, you would have acquitted me of the task of pursuing a confession, in the course of which my self-esteem has so many wounds to sustain.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

After these works, in making the Judgment, Orcagna set Jesus Christ on high above the clouds in the midst of His twelve Apostles, judging the quick and the dead; showing on one side, with beautiful art and very vividly, the sorrowful expressions of the damned who are being dragged weeping by furious demons to Hell, and, on the other, the joy and the jubilation of the good, whom a body of angels guided by the Archangel Michael are leading as the elect, all rejoicing, to the right, where are the blessed.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Trim found he was upon a wrong scent, and stopped short with a low bow—Two misfortunes, quoth the corporal to himself, are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time;—the mischief the cow has done in breaking into the fortifications, may be told his honour hereafter.—Trim's casuistry and address, under the cover of his low bow, prevented all suspicion in my uncle Toby, so he went on with what he had to say to Trim as follows: —For my own part, Trim, though I can see little or no difference betwixt my nephew's being called Tristram or Trismegistus—yet as the thing sits so near my brother's heart, Trim—I would freely have given a hundred pounds rather than it should have happened.—A hundred pounds, an' please your honour!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Then he drew the key from the outer door, passed through after me, and locked it on the outside.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

] After Belisarius had left sufficient garrisons in Palermo and Syracuse, he embarked his troops at Messina, and landed them, without resistance, on the opposite shores of Rhegium.
— 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

More than I seem, and less than I was born to: A man at least, for less I should not be; And men may talk of kings, and why not I?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The town consists of about fifty tents and marbuees, a large skeleton of a wooden storehouse, piles of hay
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

His face is beautiful, dirty as it is; his voice is clear, and unaffected, and his thin lips have an expression of high-bred contempt, that amuses me a little, and puzzles me a great deal.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Before he left, Cook landed pigs and goats, hoping that these animals might at length become acclimatized to New Zealand.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

Father Francisco Sanchez, Rizal’s instructor in rhetoric in the Ateneo, made a long visit to Dapitan and brought with him some surveyor’s instruments, which his former pupil was delighted to assist him in using.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

I shall have occasion to show hereafter how easily those camp habits may be acquired; meantime I have only to remark that, were they generally understood, an army might often be kept in the field in an infinitely more serviceable condition than it now is, and the prevalence of ague and dysentery in a body of men exposed to hardship [pg 62] and privation, if not totally arrested, might at least be very much diminished.
— from Recollections of the War of 1812 by William Dunlop

Vincent was now nearly sixteen years old, and would upon coming of age assume the reins of power at the Orangery, of which his mother, however, would be the actual mistress as long as she lived.
— from With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Amendments to the constitution may be made by the concurrence of three-fourths of the members present at a duly called meeting, notice of such amendment having been given to all members at least one week in advance.
— from The Ohio Journal of Science, Vol. XVI, No. 1, November 1915 by Various

An its hall werry well for them as as their cup of tee an their butturd tostes bifor their hup in the mornin, an their cold shiken an briled bones at breakfast, and a bit o cake an a glass o jellee atween breakfast an lunch, an a lunch of ot mete and pertaties, wich it is called the children's dinner, but the parents jines in it, an a snack o suffin between lunch an dinner, just to kepe hoff the sinkin from their pore weke stommicks, an a dinner of thre coarses an a dissurt, an toste an muffins at tee, an maybe a little kneegus or sperrits at bed time to kepe it hall down, and then a crust o bred in their bed rooms lest they shood feel faint in the nite—hits werry well for them to fast, if they likes it, for they've plenty of food to fall bak on, and wood honely go to their wittles fresher nex day, like sum I wuns lived with but wonte name, as made hup in Heester for wot they didnt hete in Lent.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various