Ain't there no one at the King's Head to rub 'em a little?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Yes,” added the other; “and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

She sometimes lost patience and said: “Come, come, be reasonable; eat and let me eat.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[337-370] wrought to anger and stung with bitterness by Turnus' fame, lavish of wealth and quick of tongue though his hand was cold in war, held no empty counsellor and potent in faction—his mother's rank ennobled a lineage whose paternal source was obscure—rises, and with these words heaps and heightens their passion: 'Dark to no man and needing no voice of ours, O gracious king, is that whereon thou takest counsel.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The analysis here given explains why the worst charge which can ever be brought against rapacious extortioners and legal sharpers is, that they appropriate for themselves the goods of widows and orphans.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

CHAPTER XX ToC ENGAGEMENTS Courtship So long as Romance exists and Lochinvar remains young manhood's ideal, love at first sight and marriage in a week is within the boundaries of possibility.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

With Thee is rest entire, and life imperturbable.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

15 El juez era un mozalvete despabilado, de estos que todos los días aparecen en los criaderos de eminencias, aspirando recién empollados a los primeros puestos de la administración y de la política.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But in close proximity are layers of granules into which the rods and cones send fibres, and beyond these, about 1 ⁄ 100 th of an inch from the retinal layer, lie ganglion-cells, in each of which a minute disturbance may readily evolve a larger disturbance; so that by multiplication, single or perhaps double, there is produced a force sufficient to excite the fibre connected with the centre of vision.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

The church is with a Russian early and late.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

Tous quoiqu'en très-grand nombre, auroient péri ainsi, sans un page qui, ayant trouvé moyen de repasser en Asie, les avertit du danger qui les menaçoit:
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

However broad may be our interpretation of recent events, as long as this heresy prevails, the people of the South cannot hope to recover their historic place in the councils of the nation.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Five hours had gone by before Robbie encountered a living soul.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

Cuthbertson rises energetically and looks across the bookstand to see who is the author of this impertinence.)
— from The Philanderer by Bernard Shaw

And so, where we once had rude rafts of logs, lashed together with rawhide ropes, we this morning embarked in good boats and went all up the beautiful lake, past Red Eagle, and Little [ Pg 212] Chief, and Almost-a-Dog Mountains to the head of the lake, and looking back at the slope of Milk River Ridge saw the far-apart, enormous footprints of Heavy Runner, keeper of the buffalo.
— from Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park by James Willard Schultz

"I should think there were a great many," replied R——. The river flowed on, and brought on its surface the foam of some neighbouring foss, floating unbroken in small lumps like soap-suds; which, borne by the eddying stream, revolved round and round a piece of fallen rock elevated a little above the water.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

An understanding befitting colleagues was reestablished, externally at least, between Pompeius and Crassus.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen