For the purposes of consecration I spent three hours every day with Madame d’Urfe, and we had not finished till the ensuing Saturday.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

No description I could give of her would do justice to my recollection of her, or to her entire deliverance of herself to her anger.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, Broad-faced with under-fringe of russet beard, Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, Came riding with a hundred lances up;
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Too restless and sad to stay at home, I tramp here every day, six miles and back, to be met only by your indifference.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Contents Contents p.4 Sonnet ­ "Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good..." Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good, Or propagate again her loathed kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

'I only wonder,' resumed Mrs Wilfer, directing her observations to her elder daughter, as safer on the whole than her utterly unmanageable younger, 'that you found time and inclination to tear yourself from Mr and Mrs Boffin, and come to see us at all.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Slowly the heavy eyelids drooped, slowly the lines of pain were smoothed away from the broad brow, slowly the restless hands grew still, and Helen lay asleep.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

xiv. 32) by the judgment and will of the utterer, let it follow the proportion of the man's faith, let it be true to his entire dependence on the revealed Christ, not left at the mercy of his mere emotions, or as it were played upon by alien unseen powers; be it active service ( διακονία ), let the man be in his service, wholly given to it, not turning aside to covet {332} his brother's more mystic gift; be it the teacher, let him likewise be in his teaching, whole-hearted in his allotted work, free from ambitious outlooks from it; be it the exhorter, let him be in his exhortation; the distributer of his means, for God, with open-handedness; the superintendent, of Church, or of home, with earnestness; the pitier, (large and unofficial designation!)
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

They are terrorising him every day—every hour.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

Resound the harp, each dulcet string, While every loyal chord shall ring, And every loyal tongue shall sing, With filial burst, God save the king!
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

They hardly even dreamed of all the good times they were to have there, nor of the strange things that were to happen.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's by Laura Lee Hope

It struck him that the thread might be khaki, and his mind reverted to his earlier discovery of the patch of khaki in the wood outside the moat-house.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

For troubles crowd upon us thick; Our hero, Scott , grows very sick; Poor Hogarth makes wry faces too (Worse faces than he ever drew).
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

The persons who had put the snow in the fireplace were well known to James, for Arthur had not scrupled to expose them after the time had elapsed during which he had promised to keep the secret.
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

It was not many years, in truth, before they had entirely disappeared, having been murdered, directly and indirectly, by the despicable Spaniards.
— from Spain by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober

In fact, unless men have changed with the times, it is difficult to believe that he ever did."
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

I get plenty good food; I not work eight hours, ten hours, every day to get thirty francs the week; I not live in the little top one room and cry: no, I have the beautiful appartements au premier étage , and I laugh always—plenty friends, plenty dresses, plenty sun.”
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall