The supper was very good, but she was too tired to eat, and yet would not leave the old man until she had kissed him in his bed.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And Morissot would answer, without taking his eyes from his float: “This is much better than the boulevard, isn't it?” As soon as they recognized each other they shook hands cordially, affected at the thought of meeting under such changed circumstances.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She saw nothing in front of the door, nothing on the bench, nothing on the dung heap, where the old man used sometimes to sit in hot weather.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Thereupon he kept the old men under strict guard to serve as guides in case of need; next, having appointed outposts, he called a meeting of the soldiers, and addressed them: "Soldiers, some of the Arcadians are dead and the rest are being besieged upon a certain knoll.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

You, me and all the other modem users stand to benefit enormously.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

But laying aside these useless and unavailing reflections, let us take up the broken thread of my unhappy story.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If the excellent Betteredge had been present while I was considering that question, and if he had been let into the secret of my thoughts, he would, no doubt, have declared that the German side of me was, on this occasion, my uppermost side.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“It is for those of more unstained souls than mine to take the awful leap from here to eternity, and hope to be forgiven—not for me—not for me—I dare not.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

Let us take a few concrete instances of what has happened within the memory of hundreds, if not of thousands, of Montrealers, using St. James Street as an illustration.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Page 252 [Pg 252] That certificates from such places as the Royal College of Music, Trinity College, or the Royal Academy of Music are valuable to the young teacher, there is not the slightest doubt, but that the fact of similar ones being positively showered on young people from one end of the land to the other must, unless something is done, soon darken the prestige and lower the value of even these, I think there can be little question.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

He is clever, for who else would have thought of making us seem despicable to the Germans in order to tempt them to attack in force at this point?
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

As hard as the New Englanders fought against long hair, going as far as to offer men under sentence release from punishment if they would cut off their long hair, the Virginians went further and made short hair disgraceful by making it a brand and a mark of identification for indentured servants when caught and returned to their masters after running away before their time of service had expired.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

Faribault , a town of Minnesota, United States, 53 miles south of St. Paul's.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

After that, the method of procedure was as follows: The “wrastler”—on this occasion my unfortunate self—was supposed to get close enough to the animal in question to throw himself or herself across the back of the galloping calf, with the purpose of catching the left leg of the animal, the leg, in fact, farthest away from one’s right arm.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson