The Testimony of two Dromintee Percipients After my friend, the Rev. Father L. Donnellan, C.C., of Dromintee, County Armagh, had introduced me to Alice Cunningham, of his parish, and she had told much about [Pg 76] the ‘gentle folk’, she emphatically declared that they do exist—and this in the presence of Father Donnellan—because she has often seen them on Carrickbroad Mountain, near where she lives.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Sirs, strive no more; such with'red herbs as these Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In that land are mountains far higher than the Alban mountains; the vast Roman Campagna, a hundred miles long and full forty broad, is really small compared to the United States of America; the Tiber, that celebrated river of ours, which stretches its mighty course almost two hundred miles, and which a lad can scarcely throw a stone across at Rome, is not so long, nor yet so wide, as the American Mississippi--nor yet the Ohio, nor even the Hudson.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

ag-men = line of march band formed from agere √ ag = to lead . mŏnŭ-mentum = a memorial , formed from mon-ēre
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

you have a mind for a bett," cries the coachman, "I will match my spotted dog with your white bitch for a hundred, play or pay.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

But, as he approached them, his project, which at first had seemed so simple, began to grow more and more formidable to his mind.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Probably “armadillo” is a mistake for “pangolin.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Ah, you did not tell enough your darling That God made us in this lower life, Woman for the man, and man for woman, In our pains, our pleasures and our strife.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Most men of true genius are gentlemanly and reserved in their intercourse with other men, and there are many fools whose folly is called eccentricity.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Many estates are spent in the getting, / Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, / And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Old songs she had forgotten, or whose music had failed in the discords of her frivolous life, sang themselves to her again in that sweet, grave silence; girlish dreams that she had foolishly been ashamed of, or had put away with her childish toys, stole back to her once more and became real in this tender twilight; old fancies, old fragments of verse and childish lore, grew palpable and moved faintly before her.
— from A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte

And there a maid forlorn.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

King Darius: Arise, my friends!
— from The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Miller Lobingier

Upon it, a motionless form.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Men, who had always been peaceable and law abiding, seemed suddenly inspired with a mania for the murder, plunder and destruction of all who did not adhere to their opinions.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

On the 2nd of May, twelve days after moving from Saxony, Frederick arrived within sight of Prague.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If we want to preserve a glimmer of hope, and keep our spotless consciences as the parents of the victim, it is time for us to go to work determinedly in earnest.—Don't let us contend any more, Fanny!
— from The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood by Frank Wedekind

Their foundations lie down and deep in the human sin and misery for which they in part provide, and the traces of their purpose an [5] d nature must ever remain impressed upon them.
— from Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War by Florence Nightingale