he exclaimed, “I—there's nothing the matter,” he turned suddenly to Grushenka, who had shrunk back in her chair towards Kalganov, and clasped his hand tightly.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But perhaps the son of Thetis is not free from this criticism either, that he spent in song and music the hours that called for deeds, though at such a time he might have retained his arms and not laid them aside, but later, at his leisure, he could have sung the praises of the king and chanted his victories.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

So he thinking that the expense of ten talents would be enough for presents to be made the king, and commending his son, as giving him good advice, wrote to Arion his steward, that managed all his money matters at Alexandria; which money was not less than three thousand talents on his account, for Joseph sent the money he received in Syria to Alexandria.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

This dislike was now farther increased by a report which Mr Whitefield made from the kitchen, where Partridge had informed the company, “That though he carried the knapsack, and contented himself with staying among servants, while Tom Jones (as he called him) was regaling in the parlour, he was not his servant, but only a friend and companion, and as good a gentleman as Mr Jones himself.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The young and lovely O-Morphi—for the king always called her by that name—pleased the sovereign by her simplicity and her pretty ways more even than by her rare beauty—the most perfect, the most regular, I recollect to have ever seen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"He can only move two squares, but makes up in the quality of his locomotion for its quantity, for he can spring one square sideways and one forward simultaneously, like a cat; can stand on one leg in the middle of the board and jump to any one of eight squares he chooses; can get on one side of a fence and blackguard three or four men on the other; has an objectionable way of inserting himself in safe places where he can scare the king and compel him to move, and then gobble a queen.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Bradford was the first to use the structure for coffee-house purposes, and he tells his reason for entering upon the business in his petition to the governor for a license: "Having been advised to keep a Coffee House for the benefit of merchants and traders, and as some people may at times be desirous to be furnished with other liquors besides coffee, your petitioner apprehends it is necessary to have the Governor's license."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Note 62 ( return ) [ Vertot, who well describes the loss of the kingdom and city (Hist.
— 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

‘But old Arthur Gride and matrimony is a most anomalous conjunction of words; old Arthur Gride and dark eyes and eyelashes, and lips that to look at is to long to kiss, and clustering hair that he wants to play with, and waists that he wants to span, and little feet that don’t tread upon anything—old Arthur Gride and such things as these is more monstrous still; but old Arthur Gride marrying the daughter of a ruined “dashing man” in the Rules of the Bench, is the most monstrous and incredible of all.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

First, she sent the chief equerry, the Marquis de Cubieres, to meet the king and cause him to hasten home at once.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

His character, his benevolence, his patriotism and his great mental gifts did more to convince those gentiles of what the Jew could be than the keenest arguments could have done.
— from Rabbi and Priest: A Story by Milton Goldsmith

He was dragged from his box and beaten half to death by the chastened mourners, who yelled as they kicked and cuffed him, "Que bruto!
— from Castilian Days by John Hay

At Miletopolis (on the Rhyndacus to the west of Brussa) he defeated the younger Mithradates, who as governor of the satrapy of Pontus had marched against him, completely in a nocturnal assault, and by this victory opened his way to Pergamus, the capital formerly of the Roman province and now of the Pontic king, whence he dislodged the king and compelled him to take flight to the port of Pitane not far off, with the view of there embarking.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

And fourtlie the over great expectatioune the Kirk and cuntrie had of him wt ane singular lowe preceding yr fra and vther causis qlk is not neidfull to be exprest.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

Rosalie, too, knew, and conveyed her knowledge in round-about ways to her mother, for they would never speak openly of this strangeness in one they dearly loved.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

“In many cases this policy is not only short-sighted, but in direct contravention of treaty stipulations, as, for example, the treaty of 1868 with the Kiowas and Comanches (heretofore noted).
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879 by Various

The King, after considering him a moment with a singular expression, between amusement and reproach, broke the silence.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Meantime Sir Henry de Beaumont, warden of the March, had gone to Lincoln to represent to the King and Council his conferences with some of the Scots leaders for a truce.
— from King Robert the Bruce by Alexander Falconer Murison

[36] During the summer of 1609 the colony was governed, not, as the King and Company had designed, by a Council, but by the will of this one man.
— from Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker