She asked me to sup with her on the following day, telling me that we would be alone, as Molinari would be ill.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“The fullest disclosure of her secret will reveal nothing that can alter her place in your estimation, or in mine.” Betteredge’s last-left scruples vanished at that.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

For myth changes while custom remains constant; men continue to do what their fathers did before them, though the reasons on which their fathers acted have been long forgotten.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Think of a face without a fault, glowing with all the opening bloom and verdant freshness of an age, in which beauty is of either sex, and which the first down over his upper lip scarce began to distinguish.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Now then, if the real objection to the Filipino delegates is that they smell like Igorots, which so disturbed in open Senate the doughty General Salamanca, then Don Sinibaldo de Mas, who saw the Igorots in person and wanted to live with them, can affirm that they will smell at worst like powder, and Señor Salamanca undoubted
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Of a sudden, one day he began to feel discontent, finding fault with this and turning up his nose at that; and going in and coming out he was simply full of ennui.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

he understood that for the humble soul of the Russian peasant, worn out by grief and toil, and still more by the everlasting injustice and everlasting sin, his own and the world's, it was the greatest need and comfort to find some one or something holy to fall down before and worship.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first destruction according to the tradition of the Chaldeans, Persians, Assyrians, Mexicans, and some other nations, was to be by water, and the next by fire, when the oceans, seas, and lakes were to be converted into ashes.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

No incident marked the following day, and just before dark we were off once more.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

It was for trying to restrain some scoundrels of the Fifth Division that I was treated in that cursed way.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Miss Gilmar seemed anxious to get me away from the house, and almost pushed me out of the front door, which she locked after me.
— from The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

When full daylight came, Ruarangi, greatly sorrowing, took his spear in his hand and placed his stone weapon in his belt and went along the track in the direction of the mountain where the fairies dwelt, for he knew that his wife had been carried off by a Patu-paiarehe.
— from Te Tohunga: The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris by W. (Wilhelm) Dittmer

In what way does the fun display itself?"
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

Protestant sects have transferred many of the false doctrines of Romanism to their own creeds, hence they worship the first beast just as truly as the Papists worshiped the dragon by accepting heathenish principles.
— from The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

At other times, that which I subsisted on during these fifteen days, could scarcely have sustained life, but the Spirit of the Lord so operated on my system, that I felt full all the time, and had no desire to eat or partake of anything.
— from Gems for the Young Folks Fourth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints. by Various

And so it happened that they were both awake when at about eleven o’clock the great brass knocker on the front door sent clattering clangs all through the house.
— from The Staying Guest by Carolyn Wells

Oh, Woodcutter, woodcutter, why didn't you do that the first day I saw you?
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne