Jean, who had seen them pass by, made his escape from the house, and after his father had made a long search for him, he found him among the learned goats and trick dogs, uttering shouts of laughter and sitting on the knees of an old clown.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We heard a fearful scream from Mavriky Nikolaevitch as he dashed to her assistance and struck with all his strength the man who stood between him and Liza.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Having satisfied himself that Raskolnikov was not frightened at his threat, he assumed a mirthful and friendly air.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It would be impossible for me now,” said Leonela, “I am so agitated: leave me till to-morrow, and then you shall hear from me what will fill you with astonishment; but rest assured that he who leaped through the window is a young man of this city, who has given me his promise to become my husband.” Anselmo was appeased with this, and was content to wait the time she asked of him, for he never expected to hear anything against Camilla, so satisfied and sure of her virtue was he; and so he quitted the room, and left Leonela locked in, telling her she should not come out until she had told him all she had to make known to him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I am quite interested to hear all about it.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I hope to be at least a month with my friends, and to gain peace and balance, and a less troubled heart, and a sweeter mood.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

This might lead to his apprehension as he passed along the streets.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And though I have sometimes endeavoured to convince actors that they are mistaken in this notion they have adopted, and that they would attract more people, and get more credit, by producing plays in accordance with the rules of art, than by absurd ones, they are so thoroughly wedded to their own opinion that no argument or evidence can wean them from it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And that the Kinge and all his counsell granted to him anone, and sealed their commission.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Far above these are the vertebrates, among which we have already demonstrated the occurrence of different grades of organization, from the fish up to the higher amphibia and reptiles, and beyond in two directions to the diverging birds and mammals.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

“For it is possible that the steepness of the hill, and a morass below next the river might be thought a sufficent security on that side.”
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

When they reached the store, Bobby went into Mr. Bayard's private office and told him all about the affair.
— from Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright by Oliver Optic

He was not a conventional success in the House; as a speaker he lacked magnetism.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

In that diviner epoch of man’s mysterious passion, when ideas of perfection and purity, vague and fugitive before, start forth and concentre themselves round one virgin shape,—that rises out from the sea of creation, welcomed by the Hours and adorned by the Graces,—how the thought that this archetype of sweetness and beauty singles himself from the millions, singles himself for her choice, ennobles and lifts up his being!
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Thomery made no reply to this: they had arrived at the door of the fatal room.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

[177] "At Rochefort, the Emperor lived at the prefecture: numbers were constantly grouped round the house; and acclamations continued to be frequently repeated.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

Like them he attributed all the evils it endured to priests and politicians, whose immediate annihilation would be followed by immediate, everlasting and universal happiness.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

It is cheerfully admitted that hospitals and asylums have been built by Christians in Christian countries, and it is also admitted that hospitals and asylums have been built in countries not Christian; that there were such institutions in China thousands of years before Christ was born, and that many centuries before the establishment of any orthodox church there were asylums on the banks of the Nile—asylums for the old, the poor, the infirm—asylums for the blind and for the insane, and that the Egyptians, even of those days, endeavored to cure insanity with kindness and affection.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll