On seeing Alpátych, Ferapóntov turned to him: “Russia is done for!”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“While life remains, let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he run into debt; when once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again?”
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

When she came, Frank kept under the bedclothes until I had stripped her, and getting into bed with her performed the hymenial rites in due order.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

I remember to have read in Diodorus Siculus 1 an Account of a very active little Animal, which I think he calls the Ichneumon , that makes it the whole Business of his Life to break the Eggs of the Crocodile, which he is always in search after.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

If anything had happened to Tommy he regretted it deeply, but he could do nothing.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

As to the road in question, the choice of trees had rendered its direction somewhat capricious, but at the same time it facilitated the access to a large part of the Serpentine Peninsula.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

So clamouring he pursues, and brandishes his drawn sword, and sees not that his rejoicing is drifting with the winds.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

But he was now thoroughly discouraged; his work was mere drudgery; his tendency to take his relaxation in debauchery increased the weakness of a constitution early undermined; and he died at Dumfries in his thirty-eighth year.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

George, having said grace, relapsed into moody silence, eating and drinking with gusto but in moderation, and savouring every sup of wine and morsel of food as though he regretted its departure.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In Gifford we recognize the prototype of the Evangelist of “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” while the Prudence, Piety, and Charity of Bunyan’s immortal narrative had their human representatives in devout female members of the congregation, known in their little Bedford world as Sister Bosworth, Sister Munnes, and Sister Fenne, three of the poor women whose pleasant words on the things of God, as they sat at a doorway in the sun, “as if joy did make them speak,” had first opened Bunyan’s eyes to his spiritual ignorance.
— from The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables

You have never failed, in private conversation, to condemn the advocates of Slavery on whatever grounds they have rested its defence, nor have you ever ceased to deplore its existence in our country.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

449 Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that hath received it disclose it.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

I could hear my heart beating; but Mungo’s heart stood still, like a watch that has run itself down.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

Some well-meaning people thought it wrong thus to invade the Indians' hunting-grounds for any purpose whatsoever, and Wendell Phillips rejoiced that they had risen in defence of them.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

When the Spirit comes as the initiator of this abundant life, then we "know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit," and it becomes possible for the Spirit-led person to be guided "into all the truth," to "love even as He loved," and to "overcome the world."[4] Here, again, the human race is divided into those who have "received of the Spirit," and those who have not so received; those who are "born from above" and those who have had only a natural birth; the twice-born and the once-born; those who are "of the Spirit," i.e. spiritual, and those who are "of this world," i.e. empirical.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

Cloridon , who treated me with the highest Respect imaginable, discover'd his Love to me, as soon as he knew it himself; and many have pretended it, that never felt any, at least for me.
— from Olinda's Adventures: or the Amours of a Young Lady by Catharine Trotter

They have residents in different parts of the country.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh