Quotes of 100 Common words from Classic

If you have heard anything of my unhappy history you will know that I made a rash marriage and had reason to regret it.

Every one knows the history of the famous return from Elba, a return which was unprecedented in the past, and will probably remain without a counterpart in the future.

While retracing the past, I forget the present; and traversing at will the path of history I cease to remember that I am myself a prisoner.

Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.

All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house.

The Englishman easily found the entries relative to the Abbe Faria; but it seemed that the history which the inspector had related interested him greatly, for after having perused the first documents he turned over the leaves until he reached the deposition respecting Edmond Dantes.

The history of the scuttled vessels, which had appeared improbable during the day, seemed very probable at night; placed as he was between two possible sources of danger, he kept his eye on the crew, and his gun in his hand.

Seated with folded arms in a corner of the carriage, he continued to ponder over the singular history he had so lately listened to, and to ask himself an interminable number of questions touching its various circumstances without, however, arriving at a satisfactory reply to any of them.

The author of this history, who has resided five or six years in Italy, does not recollect to have ever seen a ceremony interrupted by one of those events so common in other countries.

I knew you were gloomy, and always brooding over some old history of the vendetta; and I overlooked that in Italy, because in Italy those things are thought nothing of.

I felt some degree of nervousness as I entered upon the history of the diamond, but, to my inexpressible astonishment, he confirmed it in every particular, and to my equal surprise, he seemed to place entire belief in all I said.

The history which he related to me of his lost son touched me to the quick; indeed, his griefs, hopes, and fears on that subject might furnish material for a most touching and pathetic poem.

Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.

You would hardly have recited your touching history before it would go forth to the world, and be deemed unlikely and unnatural.

The young girl then continued, speaking slowly, like a person who is either inventing or suppressing some feature of the history which he is relating.

Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

As we shall probably meet with him again in the course of our history, it may be well for our readers to be made at once acquainted with him.

We have hinted that by the side of these views of the leveling and simplifying minister, which belong to history, the chronicler is forced to recognize the lesser motives of the amorous man and jealous rival.

If you require to know positively what she is capable of, read her past history on her left shoulder.