[8] "Berliner"—The citizens of Berlin are renowned in Germany for their poor jokes.—Tr.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He started up, and looked at her with what she felt to be a rather insolent gaze.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Since your withdrawing from this Place, the Fair Sex are run into great Extravagancies.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

At any rate, I got only a half-hearted consent from her that I might start.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

If you are invited to accompany a friend to church, be sure you are ready in good season, that you may not keep her waiting when she calls, or cause her to lose any part of the service by detaining her at your house.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

It is a great piece of rudeness to make a remark in general company, which is intelligible to one person only.
— 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

Having received an invitation which it is proper for you to accept, write an answer immediately, appointing an hour for your escort to call for you, and be sure that you are ready in good season.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Then he told of cunning Circe and her craft, and how he sailed to the chill house of Hades, to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias, and how he saw his old comrades in arms, and his mother who bore him and brought him up when he was a child; how he then heard the wondrous singing of the Sirens, and went on to the wandering rocks and terrible Charybdis and to Scylla, whom no man had ever yet passed in safety; how his men then ate the cattle of the sun-god, and how Jove therefore struck the ship with his thunderbolts, so that all his men perished together, himself alone being left alive; how at last he reached the Ogygian island and the nymph Calypso, who kept him there in a cave, and fed him, and wanted him to marry her, in which case she intended making him immortal so that he should never grow old, but she could not persuade him to let her do so; and how after much suffering he had found his way to the Phaeacians, who had treated him as though he had been a god, and sent him back in a ship to his own country after having given him gold, bronze, and raiment in great abundance.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Nay what thing good 350 Pray'd for, but often proves our woe, our bane? I pray'd for Children, and thought barrenness In wedlock a reproach; I gain'd a Son, And such a Son as all Men hail'd me happy; Who would be now a Father in my stead?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Sandstorms are rare in Gobi, but when they do occur are dangerous to solitary travellers.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

Now a man like Bolsover—an aristocrat, with fifty or more acknowledged relatives in good position—think how many more there must be in out-of-the-way places, poor and unknown.
— from The Town Traveller by George Gissing

We have now a Republic in Germany: no one seriously desired it.
— from The New Society by Walther Rathenau

In the meantime King Antiochus, who, as already stated, had gone on a plundering expedition to Persia, was defeated in the attempt, and returned in great grief and disappointment to Ecbatana.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments, the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ's sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ's sake.
— from The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Philipp Melanchthon

When he came, the three went out for a stroll, and returned in good season for breakfast.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

I am sure you are right in going back to such a man as St. Paul for subjects of prayer.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

The adductor ridge is generally well developed and distinct from the articular ridge: in T. purpurascens it is very blunt: in T. serrata it is united to the articular ridge half way up it, thus forming a deep tubular cavity running up to the apex of the valve: in T. cœrulescens , the adductor ridge is very short, and is united to, or almost continuous with, the lower end of the articular ridge, a small sub-cylindrical tubular cavity being thus formed.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

All right, I got back to where I was going to go faster than I thought.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission