Khokhlovskïe Viselki reached, Arkady waited until Thedot, the local posting-master, had harnessed fresh horses, and then, approaching the tarantass , said to Bazarov with his old smile: "Evgenii, take me with you.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Of his poetry we have only six elegies, written, in the person of an old man, on the subject of old age, but which, there is reason to think, were composed at an earlier part of the author’s life.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And indeed we can affirm with certainty that those do in no way err who call him divine, seeing that he has within his own self embraced the three arts most worthy of praise and most ingenious that are to be found among mortal men, and
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Sitting with her on Sunday evening—a wet Sunday evening—the very time of all others when, if a friend is at hand, the heart must be opened, and everything told; no one else in the room, except his mother, who, after hearing an affecting sermon, had cried herself to sleep, it was impossible not to speak; and so, with the usual beginnings, hardly to be traced as to what came first, and the usual declaration that if she would listen to him for a few minutes, he should be very brief, and certainly never tax her kindness in the same way again; she need not fear a repetition; it would be a subject prohibited entirely: he entered upon the luxury of relating circumstances and sensations of the first interest to himself, to one of whose affectionate sympathy he was quite convinced.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Consider that wide waste horizon of sand, empty, silent, like a sand-sea, dividing habitable place from habitable.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

He raised his head and glanced quickly, and with his old sinister expression, at the child.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

[5538] Danaus, the son of Belus, at his daughter's wedding at Argos, instituted the first plays (some say) that ever were heard of symbols, emblems, impresses, devices, if we shall believe Jovius, Coutiles, Paradine, Camillus de Camillis, may be ascribed to it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

These were held on Saturday evening; and during my whole life at Hampton I do not recall that I missed a single meeting.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

She came up with a pinch of snuff, and a shake of the hand; she was of the family of the man who had once saved Edgeworthstown from being destroyed by the rebels.
— from Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

After two or three voyages to India, Australia, or round Cape Horn, you will have obtained sufficient experience to become a mate.
— from Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trade by William Henry Giles Kingston

We have no precise information as to the locality where O. Warnerianum grows wild, but there can be no doubt that it comes from some part of Mexico, whence we have other species, e.g. O. Rossii , O. Ehrenbergii , and O. nebulosum , to all of which it is nearly allied.
— from A Monograph of Odontoglossum by Jas. (James) Bateman

In this transformation it was only natural that the wondrous figure of Voltaire should lose some of its glitter—especially since Frederick now began to have the opportunity of inspecting that figure in the flesh with his own sharp eyes.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

The Austrian Government need not go into the question of how far a belligerent is released from any obligation as to provision for safety of human life when his opponent sinks enemy merchant vessels without such previous warning, as in the well-known cases, previously referred to, of the Elektra , Dubrovnik , Zagreb , etc., since, in this respect, despite its evident right, the Austrian Government itself has never returned like for like.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

Such testimony was hearsay or secondary evidence at best; and they could have cherished no hope that such loose talk and the fragmentary repetition of letters heard read would ever be allowed to pass muster by an impartial judge in a civil court.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt

Unluckily, his character was too well known in his native district; and the Nobles, unwilling to countenance the ambition of one who had obtained so evil a notoriety, rejected him.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

But he was apt to suddenly lose his equilibrium, as if there existed broken places, holes in his being, by which his own self escaped from him amidst a sort of great cloud of smoke that disfigured everything.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola