You are handsome, Annushka, and very rich; but as soon as thirty-five or forty strikes for you your time is up.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Vanda remembered, blushing, and she handed the Jew the rouble that had been given her for her ring.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every Thing else they either wanted or liked, they let her go; she not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back: As soon as the News came to the Mogul , and he knew that they were English who had robbed them, he threatened loud, and talked of sending a mighty Army with Fire and Sword, to extirpate the English from all their Settlements on the Indian Coast.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Josephson , Van Reis, born at Stockholm in 1818, [301] became a Christian whilst at school.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

(1874.), 449 -465 Appeal to Congress to remit fine and declare Right to Trial by Jury; report from House Committee for and against, by Butler and Tremaine; from Senate Committee for and against, by Carpenter and Edmunds; pardon of Inspectors by President Grant; Supreme Court decision in suit of Virginia L. Minor against Inspectors for refusing her vote; Representative Butler and Senator Lapham on Woman Suffrage; President Grant's opinion; letter of Judge A.G. Riddle on chief obstacles; death of Sumner; Miss Anthony's speech and letter on Women's Temperance Crusade; lying telegram and N.Y. Herald's truthful report of convention; letter by Miss Anthony, "honesty best policy;" suffrage campaign in Michigan; Beecher-Tilton case.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may not speak o
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Thus a citizen living in his town or village, respected by all, should call on the persons of his own caste who may be worth knowing.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Jones Very, Robert Bartlett and S. V. Clevenger, sculptor.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

“A neighbor of ours, very rich, but as stupid as he is ridiculous.”
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock

" "No," returns Luttrell, valiantly, refusing by a supreme effort to allow himself to be tempted by a look at her beauty, "I will not kiss you so.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

What her own master could not help seeing was the contrast between her behaviour and that of a very respectable bear at Syriam, a place at the other end of the ridge, nearly a day’s walk from Kyauktan, just across the river from Rangoon.
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson

When he visited a town, cavalcades met him afar out, and as he approached, little girls in white and boys dressed in velvet ran before and strewed flowers in front of his carriage.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

He apes the gait of a military man; wears a frock coat terribly inclined to the third and fourth letters of the alphabet; a waistcoat of the most approved and fashionable cut; trowsers of the loudest plaid style about two to the pair, with very ragged bottoms and straps, the latter article proving a very useful adjunct when the supply of socks falls short; a shirt with miniature cartoons after Raphael or a correct likeness of the last murderer and the last ballet dancer printed upon it; a necktie of the striking stripe pattern, to make him smart.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

The gills of the Mustelus vulgaris regularly bear another species resembling a leech, but instead of a single sucker there are six; this is the Onchocotyle appendiculata .
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.'
— from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare