Never do this as a habit, however, and never drag the incident into the conversation merely to flatter A., since if A. is a person of taste, he will be far more apt to resent than be pleased by flattery that borders on the fulsome.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

She said my old one would do very well for another winter and that I ought to be satisfied with having a new dress.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Those impressions are dear to him and no doubt he hoards them imperceptibly, and even unconsciously.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The knights and ladies rested that night at the old man’s hermitage, and next day they set out for the Court.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Then all the world will scorne us, And say we had a noble difference, But base disposers of it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As Avarice conducted himself by the Counsels of Poverty , his Antagonist was entirely guided by the Dictates and Advice of Plenty , who was his first Counsellor and Minister of State, that concerted all his Measures for him, and never departed out of his Sight.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The other day a friend brought her a new doll from Memphis, and I thought I would see if I could make Helen understand that she must not break it.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The powers and activities of Helios are now described, 142
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

They'll all know what a clever fellow he was; he'll show it himself, and not disgrace his old pals and teachers.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But she looked forward—a very little way now—to the help that was to come to her, and never drooped.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Three of the four provinces were virtually under the sway of General Ginckle; the coast from Kinsale, eastward to Derry, was under the control of his fleet; his army lay extended through the centre of the island, within a day's march of the Shannon, the possession of any pass on which would break the Irish line of communication, and open up the remaining province to the progress of his arms; and to this was his attention now directed as the speediest manner of terminating the war, which had become so irksome to his sovereign.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

She hung over him as Narcissus did over the water, and indignation melted out of her heart.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

When they come to ten and ten more, they have a new denomination, as we say a score; and by these scores they count till they get ten of them, when they have a denomination for two hundred; and we never could discover that they had any denomination to express a greater number:
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Io mooed the first years with averted head, And now drinks Nile water like a god, Ino in her young days fled pellmell out of Thebes, Andromeda was offered to a sea-serpent and respectably married to Perseus, Callisto, disguised as a bear, wandered through the Arcadian prairies While a black veil was over her stars, What if your fates are accelerated; your quiet hour put forward, You may find interment pleasing, You will say that you succumbed to a danger identical, charmingly identical, with Semele’s, And believe it, and she also will believe it, being expert from experience, And amid all the gloried and storied beauties of Maeonia There shall be none in a better seat, not one denying your prestige,
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound

She insisted upon Ephie lying still and trying to sleep; and, after taking off her shoes for her, and noiselessly drawing down the blinds, she went on tiptoe out of the room.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Now More and Wolsey were so different in their ways and in their views that they could never have become real friends, for while Wolsey was ambitious, More was always content with what he had, and never desired to thrust himself into notice.
— from The Red Book of Heroes by Mrs. Lang

In the night however, weird chanting was heard and next day we discovered that his friends had been exorcising the evil spirits—i.e. the perchloride of mercury in which the hand had been washed—had torn off all the bandages and sent the boy a way in a canoe to avoid the white medicine man.
— from A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman

You do have a name, don’t you?”
— from The Phantom Friend A Judy Bolton Mystery by Margaret Sutton

In presents for the two years and two months, two hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents ($290.75); in medicines, hoes, and sundry useful articles, to encourage them and strengthen my influence
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray