When he saw her on the point of bursting into tears of rage and shame, he quieted her down by saying that no one in Milan respected her charms and her high birth more than he.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We anchored in the open roadstead, and spent there about ten days, visiting all the usual places of interest, its foretop, main-top, mizzen-top, etc.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Vulich went into the other room and sat by the table; we all followed him.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

But, though poor, we were gentlefolks, and not to be sneered out of these becoming appendages to our rank; and so would march up the aisle to our pew with as much state and gravity as the Lord Lieutenant’s lady and son might do.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Thus those incomprehensible characteristics of their nature—all their timidity, vanity, hatefulness, envy, their narrow and narrowing disposition—and that too personal and awkward element in natures like those of Rousseau and Schopenhauer, may very
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After destroying the town a detachment left the main body and pursued the fugitives northward on the other side of the river to Oconaluftee river and Soco creek, getting back afterward to the settlements by steering an easterly course across the mountains to Richland creek (Moore narrative).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The only rule about such an informal gathering as this is, that no one should ever go and spend the day and make herself at home unless she is in the house of a really very intimate friend or relative, or unless she has been especially and specifically invited to do that very thing.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Some obscure treatises of Rupecissa and Sacrobosco having fallen into their hands, they were persuaded, from reading them, that highly rectified spirits of wine was the universal alkahest, or dissolvent, which would aid them greatly in the process of transmutation.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

From being the outward tokens of respect and sorrow for the dead, they became converted into signals of very slaughterous and killing designs upon the living.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Having tasted no food since the dinner of the preceding day, extreme faintness made her feel the necessity of quitting the asylum of her apartment to obtain refreshment, and she was also very anxious to procure liberty for Annette.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Tears of rage and shame started to his eyes.
— from Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock

Many such have been uncultured and ignorant persons, into whom, being void of spirit and sense of their own, as into an empty chamber, the divine spirit and sense intrude, as it would have less power to show itself in those who are full of their own reason and sense.
— from The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Giordano Bruno

not all of these, the barrack and the bivouac, the sabre and the musket, the moustache and the soldier's jacket bound, in the end, to hit upon the idea that they might as well save, society once for all, by proclaiming their own regime as supreme, and relieve bourgeois society wholly of the care of ruling itself?
— from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx

Whenever he could do a good turn, or render a service, without touching his purse, he would do it.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

I understand that peonism , a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt; an arrangement of a peculiar nature known to the law of Mexico.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Wild Bill rallied sufficiently to tell the story of his dreadful encounter with ten of the most desperate men that ever cut a man’s throat or robbed a stable.
— from Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout being a true an exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced. by James W. (James William) Buel

They fought into clinches and battered their way out of them; they tripped over roots and scrambled to their feet again; they tossed all rules to the winds except the rule of self-preservation.
— from Fore! by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

The pieces of young growing woodland that might have made their owners rich at some later day were sacrificed to his greed of gain.
— from The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett

Few of the officers believed these reports, but they were only the more eager to attack Akbar in force, and so, it victorious, effect their own relief, and support General Pollock if the report should turn out to be true.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston