The same day Madame du Rumain had a letter from the abbess telling her that her young friend had given birth to a fine boy, who had been sent away to a place where he would be well looked after.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

I was in that disposition which leads easily to self-destruction, and I was thinking of it as I was shaving myself before a toilet-glass, when the servant brought to my room a woman who had a letter for me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'Twas just like one That hath a little fing'ring on the lute, Yet cannot tune it:—still you are to thank me. JULIA.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

“Oh, I have had a letter from Moscow.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She exhaled happiness and love from the time Nicholas returned, and the faithful, unalterable love of this girl had a gladdening effect on him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then stretched I forth my hand a little forward, And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn; And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?" After it had become embrowned with blood, It recommenced its cry: "Why dost thou rend me?
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

I bowed, and handed him a letter from that gentleman, with which my captain had taken care to provide me.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

But Helga also leaped from the horse and stood on the ground.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He asked us what part of this sierra was the most rugged and retired; we told him that it was where we now are; and so in truth it is, for if you push on half a league farther, perhaps you will not be able to find your way out; and I am wondering how you have managed to come here, for there is no road or path that leads to this spot.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Gray read aloud the letter that was handed to him, a letter from the principal of the institution that he himself had recommended, stating that Ozark had disappeared without doing the college authorities the courtesy of leaving an address.
— from Flowing Gold by Rex Beach

Besides all this, Pissuthnes the Persian, who had a liking for the Samians, sent and offered him ten thousand pieces of gold if he would spare the city.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Vice President of the United States, enclosing a resolution of the Senate, appointing a committee to consider and report what style or titles it will be proper to annex to the office of President and Vice President of the United States, if any other than those given in the constitution; also to consider of the time, place, and manner in which, and the person by whom, the oath prescribed by the constitution, shall be administered to the President, and to confer thereon with such committee as this House should appoint for that purpose; whereupon, Ordered , That a committee, to consist of five members, be appointed for the purpose expressed in the resolution of the Senate.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The houses along the road (of which there are not many, except in the villages) are almost invariably old, built of stone, and covered with a light gray plaster; generally they have a little flower-garden in front, and, often, honeysuckles, roses, or some other sweet and pretty rustic adornment, are flowering over the porch.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She is known far and wide as one of the best ladies to keep boarders and she has a lovely family of girls and boys.
— from A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. by Kate Drumgoold

It was her first sorrow and cost her some days of pale brooding and silence, and some nights of stifled tears, when during an Easter holiday a letter from Miss Frederick to her mother announced the sudden death of Mary Lant.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Brief accounts: G. M. Priest, Germany since 1740 (1915), ch. iv-vii; Ferdinand Schevill, The Making of Modern Germany (1916), ch. iii; E. F. Henderson, A Short History of Germany , Vol. II (1902), ch. vi, vii, and, by the same author, the book on Blücher listed in the preceding paragraph; C. T. Atkinson, A History of Germany, 1715-1815 (1908), almost exclusively a military history; H. A. L. Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship: Germany (1903), instructive and stimulating.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Live by Him, and live for Him: you will do both if you live in Him.—
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

ne of their bone, and flesh of their flesh; one who had himself lived that popular religious life with all the thoroughness of a strong, earnest nature, who had sounded all its depths and tested its capacities, and gained in the end no relief for his [pg 191] burdened conscience; who had at last found his way into the presence of God, and who knew, by his own personal experience, that the living God was accessible to every Christian.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Sally had asked leave for the new comers to join our party, and as this might be according to rule in Jamaica, we consented of course, and they were presently seated at the same board.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott