We reached the house; she retired to her room until mamma returned.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Your papers shall be faithfully returned you; and I have paid so dear for my curiosity in the affection they have rivetted upon me for you, that you would look upon yourself amply revenged if you knew what they have cost me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And then he rode unto Morgan again, and asked if she would anything unto King Arthur.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"Alas," said he to himself in the heaviness of his heart, "if I go within the gates, Polydamas will be the first to heap reproach upon me, for it was he that urged me to lead the Trojans back to the city on that awful night when Achilles again came forth against us.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Many tyrants have reigned undoubtedly more criminal than Nicephorus, but none perhaps have more deeply incurred the universal abhorrence of their people.
— 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

"I have an aposthume," the Horse replied, "Under my foot."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

[424] and others, with which he was delighted, and could not restrain himself from praising God the Lord, 266 that had raised up men, and reformers, and begun the reformation in Holland.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts

" "Traverse," said Herbert solemnly taking the hand of his friend, "were you caught sleeping on your post?" "Ah, sleeping like death, Herbert." Herbert dropped the hand of his friend, covered his face with his own, and groaned aloud, "He could not help it!" "I told you that they had resolved upon my death, Herbert.
— from Capitola the Madcap by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

“Said by Mut-em-ua before the majesty of this august god Amon, etc., the twofold divinity: How great is thy twofold will, how [glorious thy] designs in making thy heart repose upon me!
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

We halted for a few hours at nightfall, in a little hamlet of three or four houses, in order to rest our mules and obtain some refreshment: but with the thoughtlessness of true French travellers, although a sojourn of five months in Spain ought to have rendered us more prudent, we had brought nothing with us from Malaga, and the consequence was that we were obliged to sup on dry bread and white wine, which a woman in the posada was obliging enough to procure for us, for Spanish safes and cellars do not participate in that horror which Nature is said to entertain for a vacuum, but contain nothing with the most perfect tranquillity of conscience.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

[10] I do not mention in this list Archbishop Cranmer and his fellow prelates, Latimer and Ridley, since having been persecutors themselves they may be said to have reaped under Mary Tudor what they had sowed under Edward VI.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

But my extreme love which would not at that time, have relied upon my eyes, and feared to be betrayed by my thoughts, made me cry aloud, that somebody should open the door, so that my voice came unto Aurelia’s ears.
— from The Pilgrim of Castile; or, El Pelegrino in Su Patria by Lope de Vega

They began to hang round us more closely, and just as this reaction was beginning the General, who was perfectly unacquainted with the Asiatic character, thoughtlessly turned round in order to speak to one of the servants.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

"Perhaps you may imagine my feelings when to-night I discovered that the unhappy boy had absolutely taken his revenge upon me, and upon her, by hanging himself in this very room.
— from Dead Man's Love by Tom Gallon

For five months they had remained undisputed masters of the positions they had here wrested from the British in October.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish