asks the Gironde Respectability: To kill a king, and become the horror of respectable nations and persons?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I shall have no more handle whereby to take hold of reputation, neither shall it have any whereby to take hold of or to cleave to me; for to expect that my name should be advanced by it, in the first place, I have no name that is enough my own; of two that I have, one is common to all my race, and indeed to others also; there are two families at Paris and Montpellier, whose surname is Montaigne, another in Brittany, and one in Xaintonge, De La Montaigne.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Jesse formed the habit of reading newspapers and magazines.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters!
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

for a long while Rhawiad, n. a shovelling Rhawlech, n. a slice, a shovel Rhawn, n. coarse long hair Rhawni, v. to grow to long hair Rhawnyn, n. a single hair Rhawol, n. a cluster, a bunch Rhawr, n. a roar, a loud noise Rhawter, n. a tumultous rout Rhawtiad, n. a hurrying on Rhawtio, v. to hurry on Rhawth, n. greed: a. greedy Rhe, n. a swift motion, a run: a. fleet.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Thou hast earned one in the halls of Rotherwood, noble knight.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Pretending to have been persecuted by the heirs of a rich old man for whom she had cared, Christine-Michelle Michonneau went, during the Restoration, to board with Madame Vauquer, the third floor of the house on rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve; made Poiret her squire; made a deal with Bibi-Lupin—Gondureau—to betray Jacques Collin, one of Madame Vauquer's guests.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Ah′waz, a small Persian town on the River Karun, province of Khuzistan, at the head of river navigation, a place of some commercial note.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

He ran to his own room, not knowing what he was doing, flung himself, dressed as he was, face downwards on his bed, wrapped himself convulsively, head and all, in the sheet, and lay so for two hours—incapable of sleep, incapable of thought, with a load on his heart and blank, immovable despair in his soul.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Japanese is doubtless quite well satisfied of the superiority of his people over the mushroom growths of western civilization, and finds no difficulty in borrowing from the latter whatever is worth reproducing, and improving on it in adapting it to his own racial needs.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

II IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS—TRIAL OF GENERAL BELKNAP—THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN HAYES AND TILDEN—CREATION OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION—
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

(And it is a fact that since the prompt exclusion of Roberts from the House of Representatives no known polygamist has been elected to either House of Congress.)
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon

He therefore determined on writing to Louis XVI., and intimating that he owed his situation at Court solely to the confidence with which the late King had honoured him; and that as habits contracted during the Queen's education placed him continually in the closest intimacy with her, he could not enjoy the honour of remaining near her Majesty without the King's consent.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The fact was he had acquired a half share in a filly of George Forsyte's, who had gone irreparably on the turf, to the horror of Roger, now stilled by the grave.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

There are, of course, ultimate limits beyond which organized intelligence can not provide for an increasing population under the handicap of restricted natural resources.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various

In these hours of relaxation Napoleon played cards with his friends, or chess, or—after he went to Longwood—billiards.
— from Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed

You wait within the enclosure of the wall, hid by those heaps of rubbish, near the door; none can enter but what you will observe them.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

After her interview with Sergeant Nicholas, Lady Chillington dismissed Janet for the day, and retired to her own rooms, nor was she seen out of them till the following morning.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various

Even Mr. Brownsmith of Eastchepe might rig a craft out of an empty sugar hogshead, set up his walking-stick for mast, tie his pocket-handkerchief to it for sail, and trust to the waves in safety—that is, if Mr. Brownsmith of Eastchepe had in him the heart of Raleigh, not of Bumble.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea