After this time I was generally employed through the visiting season, as also was Anne, in the United States Hotel, and other public houses of the place.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

I could not avoid meeting him, and besides, I was glad enough to see him again, especially in such a place.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This we were glad enough to have, and the mate told us that we should live upon fresh beef while we were on the coast, as it was cheaper here than the salt.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

My father was generous enough to receive him kindly, and even promised to purchase for him a commission in the army, for which he expressed great thankfulness and joy.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In passing, it may be said that such festivities are not infrequent phenomena in county towns, for the reason that where Governors exist there must take place balls if from the local gentry there is to be evoked that respectful affection which is every Governor’s due.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

At this embarrassing moment, when they began to think the whole of the hostile tribe was gradually encircling them, they heard the yell of combatants and the rattling of arms echoing under the arches of the wood at the place where Uncas was posted, a bottom which, in a manner, lay beneath the ground on which Hawkeye and his party were contending.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Deep was my amazement at this discovery; and deeper still when I perceived that, instead of being desperately wretched in such a union, she was gay even to giddiness.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I would gladly eat the whole race if I had a chance.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The level axes, and the points made fast (His perfect skill the wondering gazers eyed, The game as yet unseen, as yet untried).
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And I shall be here till one day men find iron or copper in my mountain, and come up with great engines to carve it and tear its flanks and carry it away; and then I shall go too, as my sisters have gone."
— from The Treasure of the Isle of Mist by W. W. (William Woodthorpe) Tarn

You were good enough to call me a devil the other day; well, if you want your quarrel, you shall have it.
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna

Then talk no more to me of weeds and mourning, but show me christenings and all those who give employ to the baptismal font!'
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The crowds at stations were growing enormous, their greetings more vociferous.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch

When Tom and I came to look over the ground with a view to finding a burial-place for the dead, I realised with grim emphasis the truth of Charlie Webster's remarks—in those snuggery nights that seemed so remote and far away—on the nature of the soil which would have to be gone over in quest of my treasure.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

"Oh, that," he blew rings of smoke lightly through the air and followed them with gay eyes; "that is a part of the game.
— from The Beauty by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

The latter had been two or three times a day to the sanatorium to enquire how the invalids were progressing, so it was with great eagerness that she now knocked at the door.
— from The Nicest Girl in the School: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

If we only adopted the same attitude towards Premiers and Chancellors of the Exchequer, if we genially encouraged their stammering and delightful attempts at human speech, we should be in a far more wise and tolerant temper.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

August 10th was finally agreed on, but not without much opposition on the part of the allied generals, who insisted that such a prolongation would greatly embarrass them.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

He is therefore within all things, as He who gives essence to all things; and is the basis of all being, the heart and source of all life.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre