I have heard her, in her Wrath, call a Substantial Trades-man a Lousy Cur; and remember one Day, when she could not think of the Name of a Person, she described him in a large Company of Men and Ladies, by the Fellow with the Broad Shoulders.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

'In truth, madam,' replied the husband, 'I 339 am concerned for you, for that I see you lose your soul at this game; but, to do you service, I will well to take the pains of putting up my special orisons to God in your name, the which maybe shall profit you, and I will send you bytimes a little clerk of mine, to whom you shall say if they have profited you or not; and if they have profited you, we will proceed farther.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The fore-limbs, for instance, which once served as legs to a remote progenitor, may have become, through a long course of modification, adapted in one descendant to act as hands, in another as paddles, in another as wings; but on the above two principles the fore-limbs will not have been much modified in the embryos of these several forms; although in each form the fore-limb will differ greatly in the adult state.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But there is a nearer and later cement of mutual kindred which we bear to one another, for my mother Rebeka was sister to Laban thy father, both by the same father and mother; I therefore and thou are cousin-germans.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But that description of fainting fits, which is contagious among ladies, seldom lasts long; so when he had been well kissed, and a little cried over, Mrs. Bardell recovered, set him down again, wondering how she could have been so foolish, and poured out some more tea.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Have a little compassion on my nerves.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Master Hugh told him it was done in Mr. Gardner's ship-yard at midday, where there were a large company of men at work.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It was not known whether there were any living connexions of Madame L. and her daughter.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

And with a loud cry of my heart I cried out in the next verse, O in peace, O for The Self-same!
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Woman cannot compete with man in a long course of mental labor.
— from The True Woman A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman vs. Ballot by Justin D. (Justin Dewey) Fulton

The room was filled with a low chime of music.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp

CONTINUED CHAPTER XXIX HOMEWARD BOUND It took not more than three months to put my house into a liveable condition once more, for, most happily, the injury which had been done to it in the Indian raid concerned more the woodwork and the fittings than aught else.
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

A large class of men, especially in this practical country, are apt to suspect Plato of nonsense; and these are unwilling to take advice in the affairs of common life from a man who, in his flights of ideal constructiveness, so far transcends the narrow range of their own hard-faced realism.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

White to the lips, Rigaud stroked his moustache, muttering, ‘By Heaven, my small boy, but you are a little compromising of my lady, your respectable mother’—and seemed for a minute undecided how to act.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

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— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

'Thanks for the compliment, fair coz,' said Sidney, not without a complacent cynical pleasure in the knowledge that Raphael spoke truly, that he owed his own immunity from the obligations of the faith to his artistic success, and that the outside world was disposed to accord him a larger charter of morality on the same grounds.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

What is the best stuff to use on wounds and large cuts on my fruit trees?
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

At the end of April Alston Lake came once more to visit them.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

The latter of a loud cry, of much the same kind, which is modulated into notes by the hand being placed before the mouth.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver