Now stole upon the time the dead of night, When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes: No comfortable star did lend his light, No noise but owls' and wolves' death-boding cries; Now serves the season that they may surprise The silly lambs; pure thoughts are dead and still, While lust and murder wake to stain and kill.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The prefect seemed not to be coming, and the members of the jury felt much embarrassed, not knowing if they ought to begin the meeting or still wait.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Most emphatically, No!
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

Until my arrival he had been much embarrassed, neither knowing how to dictate nor to write legibly.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

like whom, to mortal eyes None e’er has risen, and none e’er shall rise.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

= Some m′ are y′ No y′ m′ exist = No y′ are m′
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

No y′ m exist = No y′ are m =
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

But M. Emanuel never was reasonable; flint and tinder that he was!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Then count me even now as dead and cold; Would you I tell my woes in some new way?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

your Eichiad, n. a crying out Eichio, v. to sound; to cry Eidiaw, v. to frisk, to enliven Eidiawl, a. vigorous, lively Eidiogi, v. to invigorate Eidion, n. a beast, steer Eidral, n. ground-ivy Eiddew, n. the ivy Eiddiad, n. a possessing Eiddiar, n. hether or ling Eiddiaw, v. to possess Eiddiawg, a. owned: n. slave Eiddig, a. jealous: n. a jealous one; a zealot Eiddigedd, n. zeal, jealousy Eiddigeddu, v. to grow jealous Eiddìgio, v. to grow jealous Eiddigor, n. superior Eiddigus, a. jealous; zealous Eiddil, a. slender, small Eiddilaâd, n. extenuation Eiddilâu, v. to grow slender Eiddiliad, n. extenuation Eiddilo, v. to extenuate Eiddilwch, n. slenderness Eiddion, n. personal property Eiddiorwg, n. the ivy Eiddo, n. property; chattels Eiddun, a. desirous, fond Eidduneb, n. desire, choice Eiddunedu, v. to desire Eidduno, v. to desire, to wish, to pray; to vow Eiddunol, a. delectable Eiddwg, a. contiguous, near Eiddwng, a. contiguous Eiddyganu, v. to approximate Eigiad, n. a bringing forth Eigiaeth, n. a teeming estate Eigian, n. centre; origin: v. to bring forth; to sob Eigiaw, v. to generate Eigiawl, a. teeming, prolific Eigion, n. a source; a middle the abyss, or ocean Eigraeth, n. virgin state Eigrau, n. stockings without feet Eigyr, n. a virgin, a maid Eilar, n. second ploughing Eilchwyl, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

In them a thousand nails a minute are manufactured, each nail being headed by a blow on cold iron.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

I lay you ’m in a worse hell than me, even now.”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

I've earned three dollars this week, but next week I may earn nothing.
— from Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

I had rather God should know me by my sobriety, than mine enemy not know me by my vanity.
— from The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

This hare, however, was fighting, and fighting like several furies, and grunting, and making all sorts of unharelike motions and commotions against another beast; and that other beast was most emphatically not a hare.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

Phil says he heard mamma tell papa that she did not despair of your marrying Aunt Mary even now.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 712 August 18, 1877 by Various

Japan’s agriculture, then, can neither be much extended nor be greatly improved, can neither satisfy the old population nor support the new, and, above all, can only produce smaller and smaller portion of the necessary raw material for her growing industries.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

I feel like a millionairess even now.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"'T was well for thee that Pietro sallied out in such hot haste; else, from all I hear, the Black Brothers of the Miserecordia might even now be bearing to Santa Maria, or the tomb, a prince of Holy Church, a son of the house of Medici, slain in a vile street brawl."
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks