I now hate the recollection of the time I passed with Céline, Giacinta, and Clara.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

the reason why the snow is comparitively so shallow about the roots of the trees I presume proceeds as well from the snow in falling being thrown off from their bodies by their thick and spreading branches as from the reflection of the sun against the trees and the warmth which they in some measure acquire from the earth which is never frozen underneath these masses of snow.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The one was, to have the town built exactly in the style of those of which it was most likely to be the representative:—with grated windows, and the gable ends of the houses, facing the streets, &c. &c.—as those in Ghent and Bruges, and the rest of the towns in Brabant and Flanders.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

To this disloyal dog, who, thinking to have a strange woman in his arms, hath lavished on me more caresses and more fondnesses in this little while I have been here with him than in all the rest of the time I have been his.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

g The county assembly has the right of taxing the inhabitants to a certain extent; and in this respect it enjoys the privileges of a real legislative body: at the same time it exercises an executive power in the county, frequently directs the administration of the townships, and restricts their authority within much narrower bounds than in Massachusetts.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Accordingly, they most importunately desired that Caius would now ease them in their tributes, and abate somewhat of the rigor of their taxes imposed upon them; but he would not hear their petition; and when their clamors increased, he sent soldiers some one way and some another, and gave order that they should lay hold on those that made the clamors, and without any more ado bring them out, and put them to death.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He spent the remainder of the time in the street, incessantly looking at his watch and gazing about him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They looked for the root of this trouble in his shattered schemes of domestic
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If it can be affirmed, with any degree of truth, that the luxury of the Romans was more shameless and dissolute in the reign of Theodosius than in the age of Constantine, perhaps, or of Augustus, the alteration cannot be ascribed to any beneficial improvements, which had gradually increased the stock of national riches.
— 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

From this circumstance, and from the reason of the thing, it ought to be construed to extend to the State tribunals.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The remainder of the time I spent in making feverish preparations for arriving and seeing my dear comrades.
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The range of the type includes the whole eastern area of Scotland, stretching from Berwickshire on the south to the Shetland Isles.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

"Let the reader observe this, that in the Eastern States, in that of Massachusetts, for instance, in which State Boston is situated, the people bring a large part of their food from the Western States, where they obtain it in exchange for their manufactures.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

We would not, of course, deny that the repetition of the thought in a changed form intensifies the rhythmic expression.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

The discovery of the plot, the arrest of Fawkes, and the seizure of the gunpowder was bad enough; and now, the refusal of the trusted, influential, and powerful Catholic landowners who had been assembled at Dunchurch to have hand or part in what they considered a detestable rebellion, added ten-fold to the disappointment of Sir Everard and his companions.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

When?—But all the same it augurs good—And yet the cold sweat of fear is on my brow—and I choke—Look, how the rose itself is withering because that evil woman comes this way—for it is she who comes—— The rose on the table is closing its blossom and drooping its leaves .
— from Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series by August Strindberg

Duprès, driven before this resistless throng of humanity, darted into the choir and clung to the back of the altar; all Antwerp seemed within the church, and now there was no one to restrain or threaten, to implore or coerce.
— from Prince and Heretic by Marjorie Bowen

The people labored long enough to gain a bare subsistence for each passing day, and spent the rest of their time in dancing and merry-making, smoking, gossiping, and hunting.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman