But I suppose I am like a Roxbury russet,—a great deal the better, the longer I can be kept.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

That evening he gave him a long and rich robe of state, and presented him with two thousand sequins.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

There is no competent, and lasting, and real reform for him but to take away his whiskey entirely, and fill up his jug with Pitman's wholesome and undiseased alphabet.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

At length, a report reached her, that the Marquis had married in France, and, after suffering all the extremes of love, jealousy and indignation, she formed the desperate resolution of going secretly to that country, and, if the report proved true, of attempting a deep revenge.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Poor heart, how bravely you struggled To imagine and live a remembered rapture!
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

And these three disorders we must endeavour to master by the three great principles of fear and law and right reason; turning them away from that which is called pleasantest to the best, using the Muses and the Gods who preside over contests to extinguish their increase and influx.
— from Laws by Plato

Chia Yün, upon hearing these words, indulged in a long and revolting rigmarole, and then got up to take his leave.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This of course raised a new excitement, and the crowd thickened, until at length a red rope or cord was passed around us three about as high as our waists.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

It was a sad occasion when they met in the house of their old guide Ravonino, to spend the last evening with him and Rafaravavy, and Laihova, and Ra-Ruth, Reni-Mamba and her husband, Voalavo, Soa, Totosy, the Secretary, and other friends, but it was also a time of pleasant communing about days that seemed so long past, although so recent.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

It was declared that these officers, when thus elected, would constitute the so-called civil government of the State, under the Constitution and laws of Louisiana, "except so much of the said Constitution and laws as recognize, regulate, or relate to slavery," which were also declared to be inoperative and void.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Friends, confess it; in e'en as hard a fortune You stand mulcted, on you a like abashless Rake rides heavily.
— from The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original by Gaius Valerius Catullus

" "I think we are lucky all round," Ralph said.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

They reached the far end of the valley at last, and rocky ramparts towered over them.
— from Walls of Acid by Henry Hasse

Who would not thus be honored of the Lord, And have from him a large and rich reward?
— from Poems: With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Rebekah Smith