Hearing his unexpected Sentence, 'Custine fell down before the Crucifix,' silent for the space of two hours: he fared, with moist eyes and a book of prayer, towards the Place de la Revolution; glanced upwards at the clear suspended axe; then mounted swiftly aloft, ( Deux Amis, xi. 148-188. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

At midnight, as I was beginning to give her up, she came forward.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

SYN: Unfeeling, stoical, cold, frigid, indifferent, impassive, insensible, insensitive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Pur mo venieno i tuo' pensier tra ' miei, con simile atto e con simile faccia, si` che d'intrambi un sol consiglio fei.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A smell of burning tobacco came from his pipe which lay on the table, and Bourkin could not sleep for a long time and was worried because he could not make out where the unpleasant smell came from.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And from this marvellous union shall come forth to the light of the world brave whelps that shall rival the ravening claws of their valiant father; and this shall come to pass ere the pursuer of the flying nymph shall in his swift natural course have twice visited the starry signs.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

A United States court forbade the execution, but the judge who had conducted the trial defied the writ, went to the place of execution, and stood beside the sheriff while the Indian was being hanged.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When, therefore, Ancus died, the people by their unanimous suffrages chose for their king this Lucius Tarquinius (for he had thus transformed the Greek name of his family, that he might seem in all respects to imitate the customs of his adopted countrymen).
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In future we shall not quit our own province of the Celestial Kingdom, but will enter into [Pg 93] relations with this solar family, which interests us the more in that it affects us so closely. Fig.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

As if any such unsanctified stuff could find a being ’mong these ingenuous breasts.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston

“Still, we must have them with us,” said Constantius, “for we must have all.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

General association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

That is, that foreign superiority prevents national labor, only under some certain form, and makes it superfluous under this form, but by putting at our disposal the very result of the labor thus annihilated.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

“Hear what I have to say first,” cried I; but it was too late, and Cumberland entered, breathless, and with his usually sallow complexion flushed with exercise and excitement.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Somewhat less than six years after my arrival (or, to be accurate, on the fifteenth day of August, 1859, about the time of my mother's death at Loebau), and satisfying one of my most ardent ambitions, I entered the family of Uncle Sam, carrying from the District Court here a red-sealed document, to me of great importance; my newly-acquired citizenship being attested by Ch. R. Johnson, Clerk, and John O. Wheeler, Deputy.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

Such a meeting therefore could not have been concerted under such circumstances, for a trivial purpose, or for any purpose that his heart did not ache to think of.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin