“Bah! Socrates, a rich tanner and not have calves?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There are lots of vulgar people live in Grosvenor Square, but at any rate there are no horrid kangaroos crawling about.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

He should not have his attention forever fixed upon one question—that is to say, he should not look through a reversed telescope and narrow his horizon to that degree that he sees only one thing.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

They afterwards skirted the coast of Cumana , and were invariably well treated by the natives; and they inferred that this was a part of the mainland from the fact of their meeting with deer and rabbits, these animals not having been seen by them on any of the islands.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

At any rate, they are not here now, and that is something to be thankful for, though they could give little information to the enemy, except that shelling has done surprisingly little harm, and killed or wounded very few in proportion to the enormous number of projectiles thrown.
— from Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith by Henry H. S. Pearse

Of Nanette we were told how, in 1792, she charmed her Brother and his Jena circle, by her recitations and her amiable enthusiastic nature; and how, next year, on Schiller's Swabian visit, his love of her grew to something of admiration, and practical hope of helping such a rich talent and noble heart into some clear
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

But, then—we feel that we are repeating this ad nauseam —he was quite in the dark about Fenwick's identity, and was to be kept there.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

After breakfast, on the following morning, I set out for home, and reached there about noon, having made only two additions to my sketches.
— from A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada by Charles Lanman

The business there did not attain {378} to any eminence, nor did the art rise to a noticeable height, until the works were patronized by the Court of George II and supported by the Duke of Cumberland.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

he tall girl, however, appeared to overhear him, and, probably repeating his words, said: “No, it won’t do; you are right there, and now hear what I have to say,—let bygones be bygones, and let us all shake hands, and camp here, as the young man was saying just now”.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

Amid tears and convulsions they daily outrage their Christian duties; they cheat and are cheated; they always seek again and choose and reject; they are never happy, and never give happiness.
— from Venus in Furs by Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von