Then I would take the seven roubles out of a drawer, show him I have the money put aside on purpose, but that I won't, I won't, I simply won't pay him his wages, I won't just because that is "what I wish," because "I am master, and it is for me to decide," because he has been disrespectful, because he has been rude; but if he were to ask respectfully I might be softened and give it to him, otherwise he might wait another fortnight, another three weeks, a whole month....
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For this purpose we retired to a room in my father's house; and I can never think without emotion on these hallowed hours which we spent together, as in the presence of the God of our fathers.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I begin to think it most improbable: the chances grow less and less; and even if it should, there will be nothing to be remembered by either you or me that we need be afraid of, for I can never be ashamed of my own scruples; and if they are removed, it must be by changes that will only raise her character the more by the recollection of the faults she once had.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

" The trees all round it muttered, warning men; Still they kept step and neared it.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Now the order of nature is in many respects well known, and it is clear that all realisable ideals must not transgress certain bounds.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This dim freshness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say, equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed in fragments only; and so was quite in harmony with my state of repose, which (thanks to the adventures related in my books, which had just excited it) bore, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity and life.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Later on, when he had travelled more and grown older and wiser and come to know more of trails and rivers, it might be that he could grasp and apprehend such a possibility.
— from White Fang by Jack London

This question chimed in so well to the tolling of a certain thought of mine that, with the image of the absconding renegade in my eye, I answered at once, “Hanged if I know, unless it be that he lets you.”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

A revoke proved against the caller himself entails the immediate penalty of the loss of the stakes; that is to say, if a man calls three and revokes, it matters not how many tricks he makes, he must pay (at penny Nap) 3 d. to every one of his opponents.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

I Recoil 4 R Lumbar Single Transverse Use of Record The above record is made with patient sitting.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

Henceforth the Assyrian rule is maintained over the whole of Chaldaea and Babylonia, with few and brief interruptions, to the close of the Empire.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

To which of these a reference is made is often hard to decide.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Besides the above, reference is made to "the book of the kings of Judah and Israel," "the book of the kings of Israel and Judah," "the story of the book of the kings;" "the book of the kings of Israel."
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

"Come, take a ride in my rocket car, suited to both gent and lady, lined with luxury hukka fur brought from afar, and perfumed with rare scents from Algedi."
— from Tea Tray in the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith

All the artist rose in Margery.
— from Happy Days by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

To dream that a ransom is made for you, you will find that you are deceived and worked for money on all sides.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

After remaining a few days at Hyderabad the army resumed its march, and arrived next evening at Baida.
— from Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor