Pederotti had been made count by the King of Sardinia, but, as he left no male heir, the title became extinct.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Upon this, Jones began to beg earnestly to be let into this secret, and faithfully promised not to divulge it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

If he was at home, the children had to go to bed early, or they came over to my house to play.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

The latter obeyed without reply, and entered the chamber, where he appeared to be expected.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But the devil does not suffer himself to be easily dispossessed from a place in which he has fixed his garrison.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

the wind continued violent untill late in the evening, by which time we discovered that a greater part of the composition had seperated from the skins and left the seams of the boat exposed to the water and she leaked in such manner that she would not answer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Only to be expected, of course, if you will go riding bicycles half the night.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Of her there bred, etc., of her were born a thousand young ones.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

You will note that by this term ‘substance’ I understand generally the being endowed with some primitive quality, apart from all special and secondary modifications.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then they must put her into the box and bring her back to her mother, but they must be very sure not to open the box, even a little way, until they were home again.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I was loitering by the garden gate this evening, about sunset, looking at the beautiful effects which the storm of the morning had left in the sky and on the lake.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

There were constant skirmishes between them while they were together; but even these ceased after a time, for Moore, who, ever since his sister's marriage, had clung fitfully to M. Linders, as a luckier and more prosperous man than himself, was accustomed to be absent on his own account for months together, and during one of these solitary journeys he died, about two years after Horace Graham had seen him at Chaudfontaine.
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

It is true that scientific pedagogy is rounded out by hygiene, anthropology, and psychology, and adopts in part the technical method characteristic of all three, although limiting itself to a special study of the individual to be educated.
— from The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author by Maria Montessori

Even South American republics could not be kept together by effusions of republican glory and international love.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

Then he asked for something to eat, and as the servant had gone to bed, Emma waited on him.
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

Just as Cap raised his ugly head and caught sight of her terrified white face, the huge form of Wat rushed in and hurled forward, the man’s legs whipped about the captain’s body like a powerful vise, one hand snatched back the fur hat while the other brought the butt end of a gun down on the man’s head so hard that he was immediately knocked unconscious.
— from The Mystery of Seal Islands by Harrison Bardwell

In the welter of tonalities that bruised each other as they passed and repassed, in the preliminary grip of enharmonics that almost made the ears bleed, the eyes water, the scalp to freeze, I could not get a central grip on myself.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

One claw inserted under the broken edge of the paper was perch enough, and the first intimation of the mischief was the falling of bits of plaster and fluttering fragments of paper.
— from Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller

Samuel L. Clemens and I were connected by a domestic tie, though before either of us were born the two families on the maternal side had been neighbors and friends.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson