It is rumoured that he is giving his evidence without reservation, but with a certain dignity, and has not given up any of his “bright hopes,” though at the same time he curses the political method (as opposed to the Socialist one), in which he had been unwittingly and heedlessly carried “by the vortex of combined circumstances.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So she seated herself on his back, and off he went from his house in great haste, and they were not long on the way.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

In May after the examinations she set off for home in good health and high spirits, and stopped on the way at Moscow to see Sasha.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

An average of 2 or 3 miles per hour is good hiking time in the rough park country.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Never had I given her a kiss, never had I allowed myself to undress in her presence, and never (with one exception) had she come into my room without being properly dressed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His beard was white as snow, All flaxen was his poll: He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: Heaven 'a mercy on his soul!
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Poplicola died some time before, as has been related in his Life, but his sister was held in great honour and esteem in Rome, as her life did credit to her noble birth.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The alcohol put him in good humor, and he proposed they should do as the sailors did in the song: eat the fattest of the passengers.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He had found kingship a most aggravating and disagreeable occupation, and you can see by the look of him that he is glad he resigned.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

When this talk had brought us on to the field of Hopton Heath, I gave her the best account I could of the battle there in the Civil War time, and of the slaying of the Marquis of Northampton.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

[62] I may remind you that each of the gentlemen referred to, serving under the Poor Law, works within a certain small and definite district; that he is therefore peculiarly competent to speak on the state of the population in that district, on their habits and necessities, on their customary condition of health, and on their liability to epidemic disease; and that the total staff of these officers, taken collectively, representing the medical practice of the whole city, can supply exactly that kind of detailed and precise information which is most serviceable to your Officer of Health, in guiding him to those more general and comprehensive conclusions which it is his business to lay before you.
— from Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon

He galloped on again, and this time I could not overtake him; I got home a quarter-of-an-hour after him.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Scottish politicians thought it worth while to keep him in good humour, but mainly as a means of increasing their own value with Elizabeth.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

I hoped to put him in good humour by a treat at the tavern of a brown fricassée of rabbits, which cost ten shillings, with two quarts of wine, besides my conversation.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

The nice, cool house, the sunshine, the sweet smells, the flowers, the fresh rolls, everything put him in good humor; and when Aunt Seréna herself was so in harmony with her surroundings, he was soon prepared to see her in the light of Daatje's glorification.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

To feel himself inexorable gave him a depth of gloomy satisfaction.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

He increased, gradually, his hold.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

"Hausberg wanted a lesson for saying I was living on Lily, and with Arthur Lonsdale's help I gave him one."
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie