O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short, for I was come to the whole depth of my tale, and meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Instantly, through the steam of a hot whiskey punch on the opposite side of the room, a remembered voice shot—and for a moment I trembled on the imminent verge of profanity: “Oh, my dear sir, really you expose yourself when you parade that as a surprising circumstance.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But though some punishments are more inhuman than others there is no such thing as humane punishment.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In his fable entitled Death and the Dying, he unites the genius of Pascal and Molière; in that of the Two Doves is a tenderness quite peculiar to himself, and an insight into the heart worthy of Shakspeare.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

He from whom any money is taken on the highway: perhaps provider, or provider.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

His wise, tender sympathy has been the support of Miss Sullivan and me in times of trial and sorrow, and his strong hand has helped us over many rough places; and what he has done for us he has done for thousands of those who have difficult tasks to accomplish.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Next, instead of calling out a score of hands to man the stage, a couple of men and a hatful of steam lowered it from the derrick where it was suspended, launched it, deposited it in just the right spot, and the whole thing was over and done with before a mate in the olden time could have got his profanity-mill adjusted to begin the preparatory services.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It was, perhaps, as much owing to this as to a very fine complexion that his face had a delicacy in it almost inexpressible, and which might have given him an air rather too effeminate, had it not been joined to a most masculine person and mien: which latter had as much in them of the Hercules as the former had of the Adonis.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Whole ages, what we call ages of Faith, are original; all men in them, or the most of men in them, sincere.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Out of Shakespeare’s sonnets they draw, to their own hurt it may be, the secret of his love and make it their own; they look with new eyes on modern life, because they have listened to one of Chopin’s nocturnes, or handled Greek things, or read the story of the passion of some dead man for some dead woman whose hair was like threads of fine gold, and whose mouth was as a pomegranate.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

If a man is to occupy the bathroom, she must see that the hook for a razor strop is not missing, and that there is a mirror by which he can see to shave both at night and by daylight.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Bot a Lord may put of his powere forssably agayn the noble lordis and Knychtis willis, a man in the Ordre that is nocht worthy: Bot he may nocht vndo that he has done, ffor suppose that he haue power to mak a Knycht, he has na power to vnmak him, sa mekle is the vertue of Knychthede; ffor na man but grete cause, and Juge with princis powar, may tak honour away quhare it is anys gevin.
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

The mystics from whom Berkeley had learned so much had built their system of philosophy upon such an intuition, and made it their one thing needful.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

When taken from the oven brush the tops with thin boiled cornstarch water, and place again for a minute in the oven to glaze.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

An Ordinance is issued at my Instance, to oblige them to return; on the Penalty to the former, of being expell'd for ever from the College of their Faculty; and to the latter, of being expell'd the Company of Surgeons, and of being proceeded against extraordinarily.
— from A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720 by Pichatty de Croislainte

But Grace was single still, holding her own against all her mother's arguments, maintaining in this one thing her right to independent action.
— from Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey

[328] brush it over with yolk of egg, and place it a moment in the oven to brown.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

But if for a moment I think of those comedies as having been acted, I lose all sense of comparison in the shame, that human nature could at any time have endured such outrages to its dignity; and if conjugal affection and the sweet name of sister were too weak, that yet filial piety, the gratitude for a mother's holy love, should not have risen and hissed into infancy these traitors to their own natural gifts, who lampooned the noblest passions of humanity, in order to pander for its lowest appetites.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen one of the games played on the occasion, in which this young [Pg 83] gentleman announces mate in ten or twelve moves—an astonishing announcement, indeed, under the circumstances.
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge