His name was Tognolo, but thinking it did not sound well, he changed it for that of Fabris.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I don't know as much as you think I do, and yet I am not entirely ignorant of the art of loving, or, rather, of making one's self loved, in which you are a little lacking.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A touch, a touch, I do confess.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

You don't understand that, I doubt?"
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

All the veiled women we had seen yet, nearly, left their eyes exposed, but numbers of these in Damascus completely hid the face under a close-drawn black veil that made the woman look like a mummy.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Between the fall of the Heraclian and the rise of the Isaurian dynasty, a short interval of six years is divided into three reigns.
— 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

In obedience to its decrees, the laws of Lycurgus were introduced, and the earliest Greek colonies founded.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

He concedes to us that he wanted to murder him, as though to say, you can see for yourselves how truthful I am, so you'll believe all the sooner that I didn't murder him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The general principle is, to retain in the indirect discourse the auxiliary of the direct, simply changing the tense if necessary ( § 434 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

that I do not deny, it is exactly that over which I despair.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

This information decided General Kearney to send back most of his remaining force, while with a few soldiers only he continued his march through what is now Arizona for the Pacific.
— from The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake

First, there is the inherent desire of each husband to be the sole possessor of his wife's affections.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

He knew better than imagine duty determined by consequences, or take foresight for direction.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

“She turn dis piece o’ paper dis way an’ turn it dat way, an’ upside-down an’ t’oder-side-to, an’ at last she ses, ses she, ‘I don’t never could read pen-writin’
— from Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan

"Why didn't Miller Gorse let me know about it, instead of licking up a fuss after it's all over?"… Of all men of my acquaintance I had thought the Judge the last to grow maudlin over the misfortunes of those who were weak or unfortunate enough to be defeated and crushed in the struggle for existence, and it was not without food for reflection that I departed from his presence.
— from A Far Country — Volume 2 by Winston Churchill

"Well, the remedy is in your hands, though I doubt whether or not a judge and jury would take the same sanguine view of the case.
— from The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White