“I am surprised at your taking such a tone towards me,” I replied, coldly, “and were it not for the respect I feel for your misfortune, I should answer as bitterly as you deserve.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

One of my friends has called my attention to the fact that when the beats of the clock are counted during sleepiness, one too many is regularly counted.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A rude clattering of feet over the floor, and four rough men in red caps, armed with sabres and pistols, entered the room.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Not that you are scared of much, I reckon, considering the way you sassed Robert back this morning.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

244. --Carpenter's Apprentice working at a Trial-piece.--From one of the Stalls called Miséricordes , in Rouen Cathedral (Fifteenth Century).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Such arrangements are so indispensable to all religious life that even the most inferior religions cannot do without them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

So may I reach, conceal'd, the cooling flood, From my tired body wash the dirt and blood, As soon as night her dusky veil extends, Return in safety to my Trojan friends.
— from The Iliad by Homer

From this moment I recognized Christ as the promised Messiah, and this gave an entirely new character to our meditations on the Word of God.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

in Hebrew, I 35 Khwarism , city in Asia, I 26 Kiev (city), Khazars make raids on, I 19 captured by Lithuanians (1320), I 94 forms part of Polish empire, I 94, 140 incorporated, together with Little Russia, in Russian empire (1654), I 94 ceded to Russia by Poland (1667), I 159 Metropolitan of Greek-Orthodox Church resides in, III 125 Jews settle in, I 31 Jews and Khazars in, II 252 Khazar Jews appear in, to convert Prince Vladimir (986), I 30 f Greek-Orthodox priests in, preach hatred against Jews, I 31 pogroms at (12th century), I 32 Jews of, protected by Prince Svyatopolk II., I 32 fire at, damages Jews (1124), I 32 "Jewish Gate" at, mentioned in Russian Chronicles, I 32 visited by early Jewish travellers, I 32 f Jews, fleeing from Germany, settle in, I 33 Moses, rabbi of, mentioned in early Hebrew sources, I 33 "Skharia," Jew of, settles in Novgorod (15th century), I 36 burghers of, obtain right of excluding Jews (1619), I 95 [Pg 290] Jews permitted to settle in (1794), I 317, II 31 Nicholas I. orders expulsion of Jews from (1827), II 30 ff authorities of, secure postponement of expulsion, II 33 Nicholas I. insists on expulsion from, II 36 closed to Jews by Statute of 1835, II 40 Jews permitted to visit K. temporarily, II 172 privileged categories of Jews settle in (under Alexander II.), II 264 Government agents prepare pogrom at (after accession of Alexander III.), II 248 pogrom at (April, 1881), II 251 ff, 287; tried in court, II 264 "illegal" Jews expelled from (May, 1881), II 263 f wholesale expulsions of Jews from (1882), II 319; (1886), II 346 Jews of, subjected to raids, or oblavas , II 346; III 20 wives of Jewish artisans in, forbidden to trade, II 385 visited by White, emissary of Baron Hirsch, II 418 persecution of Jews in (under Nicholas II.), III 19 f Jews made to pay for night raids, III 20 Government frustrates project of trade bank in, III 25 f Russian Nationalist Society of, incites to pogroms, III 114 pogrom at (October, 1905), III 128 Jewish students excluded from Polytechnicum at (1907), III 152 1200 Jewish families expelled from (1910), III 157 Stolypin assassinated at (1911), III 164 impending pogrom at, stopped, III 165 Beilis ritual murder case in, III
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Four persons remained upon the poop: the middy of the watch, tantalized by muffled guffaws from the midshipmen's berth in the after-house; the man at the wheel, in eclipse above the belt, with the binnacle light upon one weather-beaten hand; and on the weather side, the second mate in reluctant conversation with a big cigar that glowed at intervals into a bearded and spectacled face, the smooth brown one of the young officer sharing the momentary illumination.
— from Denis Dent: A Novel by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

To this must be attributed your having escaped the statement I threatened you with in my last letter, and the brevity with which I now propose to call your attention to the serious, and, to me, most important request, contained in this,—reserving all I meant to have written for personal communication.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

"Madame is right," cried Ewing.
— from Madame Gilbert's Cannibal by Bennet Copplestone

But if history proves that prostitution can not be suppressed, it also demonstrates that it can be regulated, and directed into channels where its most injurious results can be encountered, and its dangerous tendencies either entirely arrested or materially weakened.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

Fortunately, however, Rose Dyer had not had a colored Mammy for nothing, having grown up on splendid fairy and folk-lore stories, so that by degrees she managed to interest little Faith in the things outside her own mind, in real Camp Fire games and work, and finally in the girls themselves, until, growing less afraid, Faith found Mollie, Polly and Betty better substitutes than the sisters of her dreams.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows by Margaret Vandercook

"The mush is ready; come to breakfast, children," called Mrs. Sterling, as she crossed the hall with a teapot in her hand.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott