All three felt this, and they well knew that Cyrus Harding would approve of their acting thus.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

"Take care how you answer me!"
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Mr. Tulliver had a destiny as well as Œdipus, and in this case he might plead, like Œdipus, that his deed was inflicted on him rather than committed by him.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Napoleon, a more skillful strategist than Moreau, desired him to cross at Schaffhausen in order to take Kray's whole army in reverse, to reach Ulm before him, to cut him off from Austria and hurl him back upon the Main.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

It is not the story of the Glass Pavement, or the Ruby with the Crooked Hole, or the Gold Bars of Balkis.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

He then commanded his trumpet to sound a defiance to the challengers, and desired a herald to announce to them, that he should make no election, but was willing to encounter them in the order in which they pleased to advance against him.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Tom justified The Discovery Caught in the Act Tom Astonishes the School Literature Tom Declaims Examination Evening On Exhibition Prize Authors The Master’s Dilemma The School House The Cadet Happy for Two Days Enjoying the Vacation The Stolen Melons The Judge Visiting the Prisoner Tom Swears
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

When told it was to be a tiled court with plants in the centre, he turned to Irene: “Waste this on plants?
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

[5372] He that erst had his thoughts free (as Philostratus Lemnius, in an epistle of his, describes this fiery passion), and spent his time like a hard student, in those delightsome philosophical precepts; he that with the sun and moon wandered all over the world, with stars themselves ranged about, and left no secret or small mystery in nature unsearched, since he was enamoured can do nothing now but think and meditate of love matters, day and night composeth himself how to please his mistress; all his study, endeavour, is to approve himself to his mistress, to win his mistress' favour, to compass his desire, to be counted her servant.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The truth is, these fair patriots, preparing for a great wedding in the country, had thus spoiled their shape, and brought themselves to all this disgrace by their over greediness for finery.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

The fighting has been savage and fierce, and the Canadians have used the bayonet at close quarters and fought hand to hand in the dark cellars of the mining cités.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

Hall, Basil , explorer and miscellaneous writer, born in Edinburgh, son of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, a noted chemist and geologist; rose to be a post-captain in the navy, and in 1816 made a voyage of discovery on the coast of the Corea and the Great Loo Choo Islands, his account of which forms a fascinating and highly popular book of travel; during 1820-22 he commanded the Conway on the W. coast of South America, and his published journals covering that period of Spain's struggle with her colonies are of considerable historical value; "Travels in North America in 1827-28" is an entertaining record of travel; was also author of some tales, &c.; he died insane (1788-1844).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Then I dived; he heard me and "banked"; we both looped and then came head on, firing incessantly.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

It was so like the estimable young man in a play, you know, who acknowledges the crime he never committed and takes a curtain-call immediately afterwards.
— from The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell

That being the case, he recommended Hierges, son of the "good fellow," as a proper person to be governor of Friesland.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

The wife of Ramraaje adopted the sultan as her son, and at the end of three days, which were spent in interchanges of friendly professions, he took his leave; but as Ramraaje did not attend him out of the city, he was disgusted, and treasured up the affront in his mind, though too prudent to show any signs of displeasure for the present.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

General Hooker sat on the porch of the Chancellor House, his headquarters.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

And now that the Commons had brought the matter before them, the Lords took it entirely into their own hands, appointing three Committees, and examining the witnesses themselves.
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church

I am not usually so heady and bold, but the excitement was too much for me, the brilliant shifting of the scene, the finding myself of a sudden a leading lady, instead of a forlorn super,—the new clothes!— “Honestly, I believe the clothes had as much to do with it as anything else!
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.