Yet, if like Peisthetaerus in Aristophanes, he could persuade the 'birds' to hear him, retiring a little behind a rampart, not of pots and dishes, but of unreadable books, he might have something to say for himself.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

I have found that a most pleasant and lucrative business, and, really, no trouble at all.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

You, a world traveller, have at last become a really narrow provincial, I should say a very happy one, as provincials always are.
— from Introducing the American Spirit by Edward Alfred Steiner

Cleveland NEWS "'The Lion and the Mouse,' as a novel, more than maintains the reputation of its author as a clean-cut exposition of throbbing American life by a real novelist.
— from By Right of Conquest: A Novel by Arthur Hornblow

Sweep, glorious wings, adown the wind; fly, swallow, to the west; Before thee, life and liberty; behind, a ruined nest.
— from Borth Lyrics by Edward Thring

I am anxious once again to behold Germany, which is at last becoming a real nation.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

“Got to res’ lil’ while, p’tite; got to min’ Celeste an’ lay back an’ res’ now.”
— from The House of Fulfilment by George Madden Martin

WHen Sunne the earth least shadow spares, And highest stalles in heauen his seat, Then Lyners peeble bones he bares, Who like a lambe, doth lowly bleat, And faintly sliding euery rock, Plucks from his foamy fleece a lock: Before, a riuer, now a rill, Before, a fence, now scarce a bound; Children him ouer-leape at will, Small beasts, his deepest bottome sound.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

Here was not only a labour but a responsibility, not of the attenuated abstract order, but one which was apt to knock violently at their door every morning and every night.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie