I remember one night being in the quarters of Lieutenant Alfred Sully, where nearly all the officers of the garrison were assembled, listening to Sully's stories.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I've tried, but I can't change the feeling, and it would be a lie to say I do when I don't." "Really, truly, Jo?" He stopped short, and caught both her hands as he put his question with a look that she did not soon forget.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

After sermon home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr. Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do preserve among my other letters.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This was a little town, situate between Argos and Corinth.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Katerina Ivanovna at once “set her down,” saying that it was a lie to say she wished her good, because only yesterday when her dead husband was lying on the table, she had worried her about the lodgings.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The seventh, now after death and buriall done, 380 Had charge the tender orphans of the dead And widowes ayd, ° least they should be undone: In face of judgement ° he their right would plead, Ne ought the powre of mighty men did dread In their defence, nor would for gold or fee 385 Be wonne their rightfull causes downe to tread:
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Whereas those who under the mask and show of virtue had lived all their lives in undetected vice were forced by their torturers with labour and pain to turn their souls inside out, unnaturally wriggling and writhing about, like the sea-scolopendras who, when they have swallowed the hook, turn themselves inside out; but some of them their torturers flayed and crimped so as to show their various inward vices which were only skinned over, which were deep in their soul the 364 principal part of man.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The change was actually like the spring of a beast.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

It was a long time since she had read Mrs Chapone, but she knew she used to think that Deborah could have said the same things quite as well; and as for Mrs Carter!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The following method of proceeding will lead to its detection: Dissolve 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of sugar in a large wineglass of tepid water, and let the solution remain for an hour or so, at the expiration of which time the acari may be found,
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

My bill having been paid the night before, I stepped noiselessly out the window and let them sleep on, hurrying through the fading light and the swampy streets to the station.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

This was the time when "Woodsy and wild and lonesome, The swift stream wound away, Through birches and scarlet maples
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

It was assumed that he was a lunatic turned savage, or that he had escaped from a circus or trading-ship wrecked on the Jersey coast (suggestions made by Peter himself).
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

Some are invited because we know them well, and love their society; others, because they gave an entertainment some time ago, and an invitation in return for theirs is a sort of debt of honor, even when we suspect that their courtesy was only a little device whereby they were aiming to get into a new circle.
— from Popular Amusements by J. T. (Jonathan Townley) Crane

We are like to see blessed times, if such men had but the reforming of religion.”
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

He was half crazy and his semi-madness expressed itself when any loud talking, shouting or sudden sharp report led him to repeat the words of the one to whom he was talking at the time or to relate in a mechanical, hurried manner stories of what was happening around him just at this particular juncture.
— from Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

12-14), we are led to suppose that these visions were formerly delivered singly, in the form in which we now possess them.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg