I laugh to see what ignorant persons you are, to take upon you so tedious a journey, and you are like to have nothing but your travel for your pains.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Find expression for a joy, and you intensify its ecstasy.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

It was dated August, just a year from the time I had sailed from home; and every one was well, and no great change had taken place.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

[Bacon]; "be bright and jovial among your guests tonight"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“That you are just as young as other young men of three and twenty, that you are just a young and fresh and nice boy, green in fact!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And howsover I may suffer in such a judgment as yours, by admitting equality of rank or society with Centaure or Mavis— DAUP: You do not, madam; I perceive they are your mere foils.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

“On my soul!” exclaimed Gringoire suddenly, “we are as cheerful and joyous as young owls!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Therefore it inspires reverence when in Goethe's “Torquato Tasso” the princess speaks of how her own life and that of her relations has always been sad and joyless, and yet regards the matter from an entirely universal point of view.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Look at this one, pleasant, quiet, turns about just as you want him, holds up his feet to be cleaned out, or anything else you please to wish; then you'll find another fidgety, fretty, won't move the right way, or starts across the stall, tosses up his head as soon as you come near him, lays his ears, and seems afraid of you; or else squares about at you with his heels.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

"'Twas but a jest, as you say," she answered, good-naturedly, but still with a trifle of reserve.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

At these times they would drink a little saké , and twist their blue and white tenegui about their heads and be as jolly as you please, for there was no one to say them nay.
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

In this way, if you keep money enough in your bank to meet your notes and acceptances, just as you keep money there to meet your checks, the bank will save you all worry about their payment in case you or your bookkeeper overlook them.
— from A Simple Explanation of Modern Banking Customs by Humphrey Robinson

I will ask Jasper, and you can have that.’
— from Eve: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

You would have done just as I did if you saw a wild animal coming down on you like a whirlwind, and just after you had wounded him.”
— from Deerfoot on the Prairies by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I arose and went upon deck, p. 336 where I found him in company with another Jew, a young man in the dress of Barbary.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

The pom-poms continued their steady yap-yap, jerking and springing between each, round, like eager terriers jumping the length of their chain, recoiling and jumping, and yelping at every jump.
— from Action Front by Boyd Cable

"A little more of a jolt and you'd have had to pass him up to Gifford, Doc.
— from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca N. (Rebecca Newman) Porter

We will sit up very stiffly on the sofa together, and just answer Yes, No, Yes, No, to everything he says, till he begins to take the hint, and learns how to behave himself.
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells