Then the higher line fellows began to come down along the matting in the middle of the refectory, Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard who was allowed to smoke cigars and the little Portuguese who wore the woolly cap.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

He heard the fellows of the higher line stand up at the top of the refectory and heard their steps as they came down the matting: Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard and the Portuguese and the fifth was big Corrigan who was going to be flogged by Mr Gleeson.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

His almost superhuman efforts in the third and fourth decades of last century cast a halo [512] of romance around Jewish missions, and laid the foundation for much subsequent work.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Without treasure thou mayst as well hope to redeem thy child from the clutches of Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, as to shoot a stag-royal with a headless shaft.—We will take thee at the same ransom with Prior Aymer, or rather at one hundred crowns lower, which hundred crowns shall be mine own peculiar loss, and not light upon this worshipful community; and so we shall avoid the heinous offence of rating a Jew merchant as high as a Christian prelate, and thou wilt have six hundred crowns remaining to treat for thy daughter's ransom.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

He was kind and good, and as strong for the right as John Manly; and so good-tempered and merry that very few people could pick a quarrel with him.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

"cool calm and collected", keep calm in the midst of a storm; "adversity's sweet milk, philosophy" [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite [Lat][Seneca]; quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher, his intimates, and Joseph Brennan, his brother-in-law, made a pretty good Irishman of me.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

Peter Rabbit Gets a Ducking 40 IX Paddy Plans a House 46 X Paddy Starts His House 51 XI Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat Are Puzzled 56 XII Jerry Muskrat Learns Something
— from The Adventures of Paddy Beaver by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Early in the spring the negotiations between Anjou and the states-general had been earnestly renewed, and Junius, Mouillerie, and.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

What monument sublimer than "Lear," sterner than "The Merchant of Venice," more dazzling than "Romeo and Juliet," more amazing than "Richard III"?
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard

Have we not served faithfully those ideals of right and justice, mercy and chivalry, for which a whole generation of youth went through hell and gave their lives?’
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

The arm of her No more will strike a mighty blow for right And justice; make a wide world stand amazed That one so gentle as old England's Queen Could be so fearless and so powerful!
— from The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett

The terrified creature headed round again, jamming me against its companions, and when my horse backed clear, one of my legs felt as though it were broken.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

[Pg 88] remarkable adventures or dramatic events, and though the narration given by the explorers is of a plain and simple kind with no attempt at literary ornamentation, yet occurring, as the expedition did, at such a peculiar juncture in our history, and having such an effect to bridge the chasm between the old time and the new, this Lewis and Clark expedition has continued to receive, and justly, more attention than any other journey in our history.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman