He is a banker—senior partner in the house of Frederic Taillefer and Company.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

XVIII Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd, 155 Yet kindling rage, her selfe she gathered round, And all attonce her beastly body raizd With doubled forces high above the ground: Tho wrapping up her wrethed sterne arownd, Lept fierce upon his shield, and her huge traine 160 All suddenly about his body wound, That hand or foot to stirre he strove in vaine: God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

19 Many men there are who, on account of the greatness of the benefits bestowed on them, and because of the honor which they have obtained from the wonderful kind treatment of those that bestowed it, are not only injurious to their inferiors, but do not scruple to do evil to those that have been their benefactors, as if they would take away gratitude from among men, and by their insolent abuse of such benefits as they never expected, they turn the abundance they have against those that are the authors of it, and suppose they shall lie concealed from God in that case, and avoid that vengeance which comes from him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The opinions which she felt strongly, she avowed boldly; and Cedric, who could not free himself from his habitual deference to her opinions, felt totally at a loss how to enforce his authority of guardian.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

She felt a mad inclination to take this old woman, this, headstrong old fool, this obstinate old wretch, and to stop that short, rapid breath, which was robbing her of her time and money, by squeezing her throat a little.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But as soon as Sapor attained the age of manhood, the presumptuous Thair, his nation, and his country, fell beneath the first effort of the young warrior; who used his victory with so judicious a mixture of rigor and clemency, that he obtained from the fears and gratitude of the Arabs the title of Dhoulacnaf, or protector of the nation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

THE HOUSE OF FEAR THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR CLUNY’S CAGE
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gallic Avignon 129 Bred Laura, and Vaucluse’s fount has stirred The heart of France too strongly, as it lets Its little stream out (like a wizard’s bird Which bounds upon its emerald wing and wets The rocks on each side), that she should not gird Her loins with Charlemagne’s sword when foes beset The country of her Petrarch.
— from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Pg 143] IV Horace Vicary, M.D., of Southbridge, to his old friend the Rev. Stacey Morris Dear Morris ,—It's a good volume, take it all round.
— from A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

To raise a chestnut on the mountain, or a palm in the plain, which may afford shade, shelter, and fruit for generations yet unborn, and which, if they have once fixed their roots, require no culture, is better than to raise annual flowers in a garden, which must be watered daily, and in which a cold wind may chill or too ardent a sunshine may dry....
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

At once a gaoler, taking his orders from the governor, bade him follow: after traversing various corridors, cold and damp, where the daylight might sometimes enter but fresh air never, he opened a door, and Sainte-Croix had no sooner entered than he heard it locked behind him.
— from Marquise Brinvillier Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Later in the same month, Hohenlohe had an audience of the Empress, and during their conversation she said something which made it clear to her old friend that she still entertained illusions as to her husband’s real condition—indeed, he was himself so shaken by what she said that he wrote in his diary: “It is perhaps possible that the illness will be of long duration.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

Masséna then came to the point: having argued down the schemes of Reynier and Ney, he developed his own determination, which was to hold on for the few days more that seemed possible.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

They laughed to hear old Father Time Mumbling that curious nonsense rhyme Of intry-mintry, cutrey-corn, Apple-seed and apple-thorn, Wire, brier, limber, lock, Twelve geese in a flock; Some flew east, some flew west, Some flew over the cuckoo's nest.
— from Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field