Seppi asked Satan to interfere, but he said the carpenter and the rest were members of the human race and were acting quite neatly for that species of animal.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

We continued in the parlour till his return, and were joined by Lord Orville, who begged me not to insist on a patience so unnatural, as submitting to be excluded our society.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Being all met, and the captain with me, I caused the men to be brought before me, and I told them I had got a full account of their villainous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run away with the ship, and were preparing to commit further robberies, but that Providence had ensnared them in their own ways, and that they were fallen into the pit which they had dug for others.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

He confesses to have received, and when he glorieth, in the Lord he glorieth.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his own case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his reason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carrying out his design, for the simple reason that his design was “not a crime....”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of these windows was turned towards the high road, and when the light burned in it at night the folk used to point it out to each other and wonder what Black Peter was doing in there.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

To this fact is said to be due the high rate at which the bride-price is fixed.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

As I now recall the impression they made upon me, they did not at the moment seem to be sad because of the loss of property, but rather because of parting with those whom they had reared and who were in many ways very close to them.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

She again fixed her eyes upon the Crucifix, took her Rosary, and while She told her beads, the quick motion of her lips declared her to be praying with fervency.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Thoroughly frightened she returned noiselessly to her room and wept, dry-eyed, for the fountain of her tears had long since been exhausted.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

By the way, that letter that De Mohrenschildt wrote you from Haiti, does this refresh your recollection more exactly as to his remarks about what you have testified: "It is interesting, but before we began to help Marina and the child, we asked the FBI man in Dallas or in Fort Worth about Lee, and he told us he was completely harmless?"
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

He went with her to her room, and with all his old charm and tenderness comforted her for her great loss.
— from The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr

They have remained and will continue.”
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

In vain was it urged, and urged with truth, that the Alcoran was less cruel than the Inquisition, that the soil of Europe might be overrun by Turks and Tartars, and the crescent planted triumphantly in every village, with less disaster to the human race, and with better hope that the germs of civilization and the precepts of Christianity might survive the invasion, than if the system of Philip, of Torquemada, and of Alva, should become the universal law.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

When he went into the barn to see the horses, the first creatures to meet his eye were the two big mules that had run away with him, standing in the stalls next the door.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

The girl had turned half round, and was looking at him with her bright, yet wistful eyes.
— from The Little Schoolmaster Mark: A Spiritual Romance by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Shorthouse

It is necessary to add a few words to the foregoing since there has recently appeared what purports to be 379 a contribution to some of the problems that have concerned us.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

A few days later, the heavy rains and want of provisions compelled Cornwallis (May 26) to retire, leaving the greater part of his heavy artillery.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon