‘That’s not catching, Trot, at any rate,’ remarked my aunt, turning to me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"If a reformed rake makes a good husband, sure it's she will have the fine chance with Garge," Mrs. O'Dowd remarked to Posky, who had lost her position as bride in the regiment, and was quite angry with the usurper.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Next he crept on his hands and knees through an overfilled butcher's shop; there was meat, nothing but meat, wherever he stepped; this was the heart of a rich, respectable man, whose name is doubtless in the directory.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The battle of Jena and La Belle-Alliance show how impossible anything like a regular retreat may become, if the last man is used up against a powerful enemy.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

For in this way a report reached Macedonia that he was dead and a factional uprising took place; Philip, consequently, fearing that he should be deprived of his kingdom, hastened to Macedonia.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

A cluster of tea-rosebuds at the bosom, and a ruche , reconciled Meg to the display of her pretty white shoulders, and a pair of high-heeled blue silk boots satisfied the last wish of her heart.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"But frequency of use dulling the sensation, I soon began to perceive that this work was but a paultry shallow expedient, that went but a little way to relieve me, and rather raised more flame than its dry and insignificant titillation could rightly appease.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

“I'd be a match for all noodles and all rogues,” returned my sister, beginning to work herself into a mighty rage.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

ANT: Result, reminder, memorial, record, register, misindication, mistaken.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"They live on an island, all right," returned Matt, "but it's a good many thousand miles from here."
— from Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The Amazon by Stanley R. Matthews

"Pooh! better than that,—letters which prove theft against a respectable rich man."
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: “Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.”
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Till this hour I had ever entered and left this town a captive, a price set on my head, and in the very street where now I walked I had gone with a rope round my neck, abused and maltreated.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 5 by Gilbert Parker

Dr. Merriman has recorded an interesting case of this kind, where the polypus which arose from the inner surface of the right lip of the os uteri was tied, and removed rather more than three weeks before labour came on.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

In addition [Pg 207] to moistening and attaching the gummed flaps, it will be found necessary in many cases either to wire through the back of the pamphlet with some kind of a stapling machine, or to sew through as described on page 190 for attaching red rope manila to circulating magazines.
— from Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

‘That I cannot answer,’ replied Rachel; ‘men say that he wants not money, though he lives like an ordinary fisherman, and that he imparts freely of his means to the poor around him.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

One of them, whom I afterwards found upon inquiry to be a reputable, religious man, was more eloquent than the rest.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

The range of variation of their characters is as a rule a strictly normal range, giving a uniform curve of distribution, which is not consistent with the notion of any relatively recent material mixture.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička