[The Peasantry.] SODERINI (Prince), father of Madame d'Argaiolo, who was afterwards the Duchesse Alphonse de Rhetore; at Besancon, in 1834, he demanded of Albert Savarus his daughter's letters and portrait.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But Mr. Dashwood rejected any but thrilling tales; and, as thrills could not be produced except by harrowing up the souls of the readers, history and romance, land and sea, science and art, police records and lunatic asylums, had to be ransacked for the purpose.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[ A passage in Dio excellently illustrates the fact here referred to: "He (Domitian) put to death Rusticus Arulenus, because he studied philosophy, and had given Thrasea the appellation of holy; and Herennius Senecio, because, although he lived many years after serving the office of quaestor, he solicited no other post, and because he had written the Life of Helvidius Priscus.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Why, perhaps the Prince and Princess may go to live in a country where there is a deep river, and perhaps they may have one only son, a little fair-haired boy with violet eyes like the Prince himself; and perhaps some day he may go out to walk with his nurse; and perhaps the nurse may go to sleep under a great elder-tree; and perhaps the little boy may fall into the deep river and be drowned.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

‘The southern Kurus vied in happiness with the northern Kurus and with the divine rishis and bards.’
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The problem being, among a number of other things thought as successive, but simultaneously thought, to determine which is first and which last, he says: "After each distinct representation, a b c d, there may intervene the representation of that movement of attention of which we are aware in passing from one object to another.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

At last this treatment had the desired result; Armelline became gay, and gave as good as she got.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

And blood untainted still doth red abide, Blushing at that which is so putrified.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Well, Sure Thing watches perceedin's with a good deal of interest, an' [Pg 60] he sees Mike disappear 'round a bend of them rapids, his arms an' legs wavin' somewhat wild.
— from Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart

When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

This attachment was very touching, and points of difference rarely arose between them.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

A grand review formed a portion of the programme; but as such displays are all alike, I shall skip that part of the day's proceedings; though there were present the 79th Highlanders, whom I had last seen in the trenches before the Redan, preparing for the final assault at daybreak; the 19th, that with the 23rd went side by side in the uphill charge at Alma; the showy 11th Hussars in blue with scarlet pelisses, who had ridden in the terrible death ride at Balaclava; and with glittering brass helmets the gallant Enniskillens, who, with the Greys, had followed Scarlett in the task of avenging them.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

Local Selling A very small amount of produce is sold by producers directly to the consumer at his home, but the roadside market has greatly developed retail activity by growers.
— from The Tomato by Paul Work

We found Mademoiselle de Retz at Beaupreau, in Anjou.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The boys rather liked to be sent on errands of this kind, because delicious raspberries and blueberries grew in great abundance in the woods, and gathering faggots was, after all, a much manlier occupation than staying at home minding the baby.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Ladies threw down rings and bracelets to him.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Jackson was to have got down the same day from the Shenandoah Valley, but his march was delayed, and this gave time for McClellan to withdraw his wing and extensive baggage trains across the swamps below, the stubborn defense by his rear guards making the fierce conflict of Gaines' Mill, on the second day, during which Jackson, coming from the northward and joining the others, compelled the Union lines to change front, the contest thus turning into the first battle of Cold Harbor, in which the rear held their ground until the retreat was completed across the Chickahominy, and withdrew, destroying roads and bridges behind them.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook