Having but little to do after the muster of the last of the regiments authorized by the State legislature, I asked and obtained of the governor leave of absence for a week to visit my parents in Covington, Kentucky, immediately opposite Cincinnati.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This pudding is called kandēl addē, or pot pudding.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

What his feelings were whom I pursued, I cannot know.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Although the immediate present is correctly known, it becomes falsified through its fictitious connection with an imaginary past; they therefore regard themselves and others as identical with persons who exist only in their imaginary past; they do not recognise some of their acquaintances at all, and thus while they perceive correctly what is actually present, they have only false conceptions of its relations to what is absent.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I can yet remember (for I always scann'd an audience as rigidly as a play) the faces of the leading authors, poets, editors, of those times—Fenimore Cooper, Bryant, Paulding, Irving, Charles King, Watson Webb, N. P. Willis, Hoffman, Halleck, Mumford, Morris, Leggett, L. G. Clarke, R. A. Locke and others, occasionally peering from the first tier boxes; and even the great National Eminences, Presidents Adams, Jackson, Van Buren and Tyler, all made short visits there on their Eastern tours.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

With all due acknowledgments of his generosity, she begged to be excused from embracing his proposal, alleging she was so much accustomed to her present way of life, and so much devoted to the service of the soldiery, that she should never be happy in retirement, while the troops of any prince in Christendom kept the field.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

'It's such a little one, perhaps I can kiss it away; but daddy has too many, and they are cutted too deep.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Of the rest of the people in court Kemp in his excitement had become oblivious.
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

“It is a very practical idea,” continued Keyork, amused with his own fancies, “and it will yet be carried out.
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Constantine, prince in Crete; king of Greece. Constantinople.
— from The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of Europe by Louis Paul Bénézet

“Well,” said Nic, after a thoughtful pause, “I can keep him in his place and yet be civil to him.
— from First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales by George Manville Fenn

If I wanted to provoke Providence, I could keep my carriage like any of your grand West-End ladies.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Ridolfo was a rapid and resolute painter in certain kinds of work, and particularly in festive decorations; and thus, for the entry of the Emperor Charles V into Florence, he executed in ten days an arch at the Canto alla Cuculia, and another arch in a very short time at the Porta al Prato for the coming of the most illustrious Lady, Duchess Leonora, as will be related in the Life of Battista Franco.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

And perhaps if Charley Kinraid behaves hissen, I might be brought to listen.' 'Charley Kinraid!
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

3 The very name by which porcelain is commonly known suggests, to those in whom it arouses an interest beyond the mere aesthetic pleasure to be got from its outward beauty of appearance, that if they would understand it rightly, they must turn their attention first to the land of its origin.
— from A Book of Porcelain: Fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum by Bernard Rackham

But perhaps I can keep out of their way, especially Snap's.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey