Robin Hood's fingers wrapped lovingly around his good bow, and he smiled faintly when he felt it in his grasp, then he nocked the arrow on that part of the string that the tips of his fingers knew so well.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“Well, I shall see him, and I shall tell him not to give up.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“I have hired,” he said, “the top floor of the house next to Barbara’s dwelling; she knows it, and to-night I will gain her apartment through one of the windows of the garret, and we will make all our arrangements to enable me to carry her off.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgment—the judgment to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Nevertheless, they had not the power of convincing Milady.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

"Master," began I, "thou who overcomest All things except the demons dire, that issued Against us at the entrance of the gate, Who is that mighty one who seems to heed not The fire, and lieth lowering and disdainful, So that the rain seems not to ripen him?"
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

I think I shall write now, and say that I am sorry her child is sick, and tell her not to count on me.”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

It proved the hottest night that ever I was in in my life, and thundered and lightened all night long and rained hard.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A little while ago they had not thought an ambassador from him worthy of even a word; now that they were captives they expected to be allowed to send ambassadors to their kinsfolk: was that not sheer folly?”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Onward I drifted, then, hardly noticing the way I went, hypnotized by the physical process of being on the move.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

In the whole account of the relations of Tiberius to his nephew there is nothing in the mere facts as stated inconsistent with confidence and even with cordiality.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

But he commanded them to speak, and then they told him, not the real message from the prophetess, but what Ino had bidden them to say: that Phrixus and Helle must be offered as a sacrifice to appease the gods.
— from Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang

His burnt and torn clothing, his scorched hair and eyebrows, testified to how narrow that escape really had been.
— from Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray

In Paradise are the Mighty unnumbered, Bodhisattvas ranked in that hierarchy nearest to the Perfect Enlightenment.
— from Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin by Shinran

She must pass it, to reach the staircase, and she would most undoubtedly have done so by this time, had not the sudden apparition of Mr. Pickwick’s nightcap driven her back, into the remotest corner of the apartment, where she stood, staring wildly at Mr. Pickwick, while Mr. Pickwick, in his turn, stared wildly at her. ‘Wretch,’—said the lady, covering her eyes with her hands, ‘what do you want here.’
— from Bardell v. Pickwick by Charles Dickens

The soldier's trumpet heeds not the soldier's tears.
— from Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

Even the manager and his hard-working assistant appeared to have no thought in life beyond that of turning out a successful football team.
— from Quarter-Back Bates by Ralph Henry Barbour

'At first I managed to make my cottage do for my shop; the bedroom and cellar I made into the warehouse; then as the trade increased I took the house next to the one I had, and made it into shop and warehouse.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 725, November 17, 1877 by Various