Be not then aggrieved that I should do so.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But tell me who thou art, that in so doleful A place art put, and in such punishment, If some are greater, none is so displeasing."
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

Aglaya was silent a moment and then began again with evident dislike of her subject: “I do not wish to quarrel with them about this; in some things they won’t be reasonable.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The narrative of Franciscan missions in 1649, above cited, gives town after town in southern Luzon, where church and convent had been burned by the Moros or the Dutch.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

"They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[pg 252] any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is till I am thirty, and then I shall lose it of myself, I fancy.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Talbot crest was originally a talbot, and this is still so borne by Lord Talbot of Malahide: it was recorded at the Visitation of Dublin; but the crest at present borne by the Earls of Shrewsbury is derived from the arms inherited by descent from Gwendolin, daughter of Rhys ap Griffith.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He asked me of my friend—“ a clever man ; Such various talent , business , journalism ; A pen that might some day have sent out ‘ leaders ’ From our greatest newspapers .”—“Yes, all this, All this,” I said.—
— from Songs of the Army of the Night by Francis William Lauderdale Adams

The king then arranged that I should return to Spain in this brigantine, and that two Turks, those who killed your soldiers, should accompany me.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mr. Rush said he understood the import of this note to be that England would not remain passive to any attempt on the part of France to acquire territory in Spanish America.
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

It will be easily understood that a title in such terms would give rise to much derisive incredulity; and we may imagine the iron-masters on that occasion crowding into Section G, while asking each other in the spirit of certain philosophers of old, “What will this babbler say?”
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

They could not, of course, be seen “punting” at the play-table at Ems; but here is a legitimate game which all may join in, and where, certainly, the anxiety that is said to impart the chief ecstasy to the gamester’s passion rises to the very highest It is heads and tails for a smashing stake, and ought to interest the most sluggish of mortals.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

However, they have arranged a trestle-bed in the corner; but at the same time a policeman has taken up his position in my room. Are they afraid that I shall strangle myself with the mattress?
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo

And now, to change the subject, have you made a choice between the two alternatives that I submitted to you yesterday?”
— from Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship by Harry Collingwood

The tall, thin-faced man was expressing his regrets, when Claudia, turning to him again, asked: “In this affair there is still an element of mystery which should be at once cleared up.
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

‘My poor boy,’ I sobbed, ‘if you talk about that I shall never forgive you.’
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett

from overhead, Like abrupt speech of one deemed dead, Speech-moved by some Superior Will, A bell tolls thrice and then is still.
— from Ardours and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems and Phantasies by Robert Nichols