Of course the untaught critic instantly objected that this scheme was neither conservative, Christian, nor anarchic, but such objection meant only that the critic should begin his education in any infant school in order to learn that anarchy which should be logical would cease to be anarchic.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

She was only thirteen, and was so small that she looked ten.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All the time Anyutka was sitting behind the bush, and she saw it all, poor dear.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now those settlements are all still in writing, as he left them; and we shall add nothing by way of ornament, nor any thing besides what Moses left us; only we shall so far innovate, as to digest the several kinds of laws into a regular system; for they were by him left in writing as they were accidentally scattered in their delivery, and as he upon inquiry had learned them of God.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But this justification cannot apply to animals, whose sufferings, while in a great measure brought about by men, are often considerable even apart from their agency.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

The department commanders were General E. O. C. Ord, at Detroit; General John Pope, at Fort Leavenworth; and General J. J. Reynolds, at Little Rock, but these also were soon changed.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor—a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Curtius (iv. 21) says that the name of the daughter whom Darius offered to Alexander was Statira.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

but she had all her throat and a part of her face marred on such wise that, whereas before she was fair, she ever after appeared misfeatured and very foul of favour; wherefore, being ashamed to appear whereas she might be seen, she many a time bitterly repented her of her frowardness and her perverse denial to put faith, in a matter which cost her nothing, in her husband's true dream."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

At last his patience was exhausted; and fearful that he might suffer in the royal estimation by longer delay, he wrote to the king for a lettre de cachet , in virtue of which the alchymist was seized at the castle of La Palu, in the month of June 1711, and carried off to be imprisoned in the Bastille.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The brisk drive and the salt in the air were stimulants to appetite to be respected; it is not every day the palate has so fine an edge.
— from In and out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

crowded cattle-trucks on the railway are fast superseding the old-fashioned, wholesome way of travelling, and we seldom have the autumnal air filled with the lowing of the herds, the barking of the attendant dogs and the shouts of the drovers on their sturdy Welsh ponies.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

A short time after we set out, we left the valley of the Red River, with its fertile plantations, and entered a pine forest on the table-land, through which our route lay for a hundred and fifty miles.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

But most wonderful of all were the black silhouettes painted upon the legs, and which showed through a white silk stocking like a sumptuous bruise.
— from The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel by Aubrey Beardsley

“He always goes on in this absurd way,” said she, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders, “and thinks himself so clever and witty, bah!”
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

The end of it was that we agreed that so many of them as wished should accompany us till they reached country that they knew, when they would be at liberty to depart to their own homes.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It seems almost impossible that a woman should murder a child for the sake of gaining even the full sum of £110; and we might be justified in believing that there must be some other motive if it were not for the fact that infanticide has been committed again and again for much smaller sums.
— from My Experiences as an Executioner by James Berry

Instead of the agitation which she had displayed when brought before me to confess, she now showed herself quiet and even sullen; nor did the gleam of passion, which I thought that I discerned smouldering in her dark eyes, seem to promise either weakness or repentance.
— from From the Memoirs of a Minister of France by Stanley John Weyman

I thy throte, And wish (so please my Soueraigne) ere
— from Richard II by William Shakespeare