Here comes a big, rough dog—a countryman's dog—in search of his master, smelling at everybody's heels and touching little Annie's hand with his cold nose, but hurrying away, though she would fain have patted him.—Success to your search, Fidelity!—And there sits a great yellow cat upon a window-sill, a very corpulent and comfortable cat, gazing at this transitory world with owl's eyes, and making pithy comments, doubtless, or what appear such, to the silly beast.—Oh, sage puss, make room for me beside you, and we will be a pair of philosophers.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Who art thou?” asked he, and gave him his hand, “there is much to clear up and elucidate between us, but already methinketh pure clear day is dawning.”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Next moment the stairs creaked and Mrs. Perks came down, buttoning her bodice.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit
King of the hosts that rove at night, O hear what I advise: My prudent counsel do not slight; Be patient and be wise.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
Hereupon the letter which I am about to transcribe was sent to me by a messenger: PRINCE CHARLES DE LORRAINE TO MADAME LA MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various
It is always 'My papa can do this,' and 'My papa can do that,' and 'There is no one at all like my papa.'
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
There are two letters from David Garrick, asking permission to bring out at Drury Lane a musical pastoral, called 'Damo and Amyrillis,' which, the editor says, 'was in Mr. Harris's hands,' but which, there seems to us reason to believe, was actually composed by him.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various
She had to speak to Uncle Tom, and then Uncle Tom and Major Phillips came down to speak to Miss Ashwell.
— from Judy of York Hill by Ethel Hume Bennett
Alis dentatis concoloribus albo maculatis; posticis caudatis; disco atomis viridibus lunulisque marginalibus rubris.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2 by Dru Drury
But Vivian Grey, as we know, wanted also to conquer the Marquis of Carabas; and the odd combination between a mystic philosopher and a mere political charlatan displays Disraeli's peculiar irony.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen
[1744] But not until December, 1873, was Lincoln school at Marion, Perry County, designated as the colored university and normal school, where a liberal education was to be given the negro.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming
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