Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida : ­ Perseverance, dear, my lord, Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail In monumental mockery.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

MRS PETERS: Why, I think that's a real nice idea, Mrs Hale.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

H2 anchor ROMAN NEIGHBOURHOODS I made a note after my first stroll at Albano to the effect that I had been talking of the “picturesque” all my life, but that now for a change
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

But what I'm after right now is my supper."
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Every maritime [Pg 225] town furnished ships; and rich noblemen, in many cases, built or purchased vessels with their own funds, and sent them forward ready for the battle, as their contribution toward the means of defense.
— from Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

In one of the Epistles of Horace a Roman noble is made to say: “Nothing in the world can be compared with the lovely bay of Baia.”
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

But the medium who was there was not nearly as remarkable as Miss Dunster seems to be; I mean she did not get the same results—at any rate, not in my case."
— from From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Perhaps, for lack of a recognized name, I may describe this class as the industrial capitalistic class, composed in the main of administrators and bankers.
— from The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

The next day he called it "trash" but invited me to have luncheon with him at the Metropolitan Club, and rather noisily introduced me to a few old cronies of his, who were not sufficiently interested in me to enquire what my name was—a trifling detail he had overlooked in presenting me as his nephew—but who did ask me to have a drink.
— from A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon

One is forced to admit that beggars are rather numerous in Montevideo,—beggars on horseback and wearing spurs.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou