It was the hoary-headed pundit who made this charming observation.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The husband went mad; their cottage fell to decay; and to this day the shepherds declare that Catti’s ghost haunts the spot.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

‘We will put mamma and your sisters inside, we will cover them up and we'll walk, you shall have a lift now and then, and I'll walk beside, for we must take care of our horse, we can't all ride.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Commentaries of Babur and Jahangir, the Institutes of Akbar, original grants, public and autograph letters of the emperors of Delhi and their ministers, were made to contribute more or less; yet, numerous as are the authorities cited, the result may afford but little gratification to the general reader, partly owing to the unpopularity of the subject, partly to the inartificial mode of treating it.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

This was not the first storm she had raised up against Madam d’Houdetot, from whom she had made a thousand efforts to detach her lover, the success of some of which made the consequences to be dreaded.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was speaking almost at the instant that the shaft left the bowstring, yet it alighted in the target two inches nearer to the white spot which marked the centre than that of Hubert.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

3. (1) When the day is fine, I tell Froggy “You’re quite the dandy, old chap!”; (2) Whenever I let Froggy forget that £10 he owes me, and he begins to strut about like a peacock, his mother declares “He shall not go out a-wooing!”; (3) Now that Froggy’s hair is out of curl, he has put away his gorgeous waistcoat; (4) Whenever I go out on the roof to enjoy a quiet cigar, I’m sure to discover that my purse is empty; (5) When my tailor calls with his little bill, and I remind Froggy of that £10 he owes me, he does not grin like a hyæna; pg189 (6) When it is very hot, the thermometer is high; (7) When the day is fine, and I’m not in the humour for a cigar, and Froggy is grinning like a hyæna, I never venture to hint that he’s quite the dandy; (8) When my tailor calls with his little bill and finds me with an empty purse, I remind Froggy of that £10 he owes me; (9) My railway-shares are going up like anything!
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Thee might'st do as I should ha' somebody wi' me to comfort me a bit, an' wait on me when I'm bad, an' be good to me.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The gentleman who made the complaints informed me first of his own high standing as a lawyer, a citizen and a Christian.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I called on him, and the offer of a sequin, together with my threats, compelled him to confess that he had been paid for his work by Signor Demetrio, a Greek, dealer in spices, a good and amiable man of between forty-five and fifty years, on whom I never played any trick, except in the case of a pretty, young servant girl whom he was courting, and whom I had juggled from him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In it the Queen was made to confirm Struensee’s confession.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

It was not, however, until the Nonsuch arrived immediately opposite the opening that Dyer was able, with the assistance of the perspective glass, to pick up the little narrow streak of unbroken water in the midst of the flashing surf which marked the channel through the reef, and from his lofty perch he immediately shouted down the necessary orders to George, who stood aft upon the poop, and who in his turn repeated them to the mariners, whereupon the ship was brought to the wind and, under the pilot’s directions, headed straight for the passage.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

On the mainland of Greece, notably at Mycenæ and Tiryns, exists relics of many buildings, including at the former the noble Lion Gate that gave access to the Acropolis, and at the latter the residence of a chieftain, which maintain the continuity between the earliest and the latest phase of Greek architecture, and may justly be said to presage the triumphs of the Golden Age.
— from Architecture by N. D'Anvers

It has been noticed that a magnet would move to come in contact with the steel bar as soon as it arrived within the drawing radius, carrying any amount of weight with it which happened to be attached at the time.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

They sent Indian runners, and I sent two of those I had brought with me, to convey the writing as agreed.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

May we make the confession that we became aware—or, to speak more delicately, that we were reminded—of the existence 59 of the colony at once Julian and Flavian by the description in the generally excellent German guide-book of Gsell-fels?
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

"I don't think quinine will meet the case on this occasion."
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

[168] We find few details upon this epoch in the continuator of William of Tyre, or the other historians of the middle ages who mention the Christian colonies.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

She knew there was more to come.
— from The Children on the Top Floor by Nina Rhoades

Sometimes they made short excursions, for the disturbed state of the country forbade them to wander far from the castle, through the sunny woods, and along the glassy sea, which make the charm of that delicious scenery; and that mixture of the savage with the tender, the wild escort, the tent in some green glade in the woods at noon, the lute and voice of Adeline, with the fierce soldiers grouped and listening at the distance, might have well suited the verse of Ariosto, and harmonised singularly with that strange, disordered, yet chivalric time, in which the Classic South became the seat of the Northern Romance.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron