Among his patients was the child of the Shiek’s daughter—for even this poor, ragged handful of sores and sin has its royal Shiek—a poor old mummy that looked as if he would be more at home in a poor-house than in the Chief Magistracy of this tribe of hopeless, shirtless savages.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Having done at Woolwich, we to Deptford (it being very cold upon the water), and there did also a little more business, and so home, I reading all the why to make end of the “Bondman” (which the oftener I read the more I like), and begun “The Duchesse of Malfy;” which seems a good play.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There is also a verse on the subject as follows:— "Whatever things may be done by one of the lovers to the other, the same should be returned by the other, i.e. , if the woman kisses him he should kiss her in return, if she strikes him he should also strike her in return."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

She in very pity would have helped him in his hard work, but he would not let her, yet he could not keep from her the secret of his love, and she, hearing it, rejoiced and promised to be his wife.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“He who has had his hair cut is in immediate charge of the Atua (spirit); he is removed from the contact and society of his family and his tribe; he dare not touch his food himself; it is put into his mouth by another person; nor can he for some days resume his accustomed occupations or associate with his fellow-men.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He gives his cheekes to whosoever will Strike him, and so he is reproched still.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Let us examine it closely and see how it reacts upon everything else.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Brutus, come apace, And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And agnosticism should have its ritual no less than faith.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Now, this explanation, trite and meagre as it is, may do very well for the exoteric teaching of the order; but the question at this time is, not how it has been explained by modern lecturers and masonic system-makers, but what was the ancient interpretation of the symbol, and how should it be read as a sacred hieroglyphic in reference to the true philosophic system which constitutes the real essence and character of Freemasonry?
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He trembled at the sight of its vices, and the slippery path of its pleasures, which, though they seem agreeable at first, yet when tasted are nothing but bitterness and mortal poison, and whilst they flatter the senses, destroy the soul; and he thought it the safer part to conquer by flight, or at least, with the Baptist, to prepare and strengthen himself in retirement, that he might afterward be the better able to stand his ground in the field.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

“The professor says so, and you know what a stickler he is,” responded Frank.
— from Ned, Bob and Jerry at Boxwood Hall; Or, The Motor Boys as Freshmen by Clarence Young

In every quality, good or bad, calculated to create "a sensation," he is remarkably deficient.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In a letter of September 21, addressed to her friend and correspondent Sainte-Beuve, whom she had made the confidant of her previous depression and strange moods of gloom, she writes of herself as lifted out of such dangers by a happiness beyond any she had imagined, restoring youth to her heart—the happiness accorded her by the poet's society and his preference for her own.
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

Sixty years ago she had in Rosas a tyrant as cruel as 545 Barrios of Guatemala and as bloodthirsty as Lopez of Paraguay, and even later, civil wars raged between the people of Buenos Aires and those of the northern states.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

NA Jordan: general assessment: service has improved recently with the increased use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in the rural areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public domestic: microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use is made of mobile cellular systems; Internet service is available international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international links total about 4,000 Kazakhstan: general assessment: service is poor; equipment antiquated domestic: intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; mobile cellular systems are available in most of Kazakhstan international: international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay; with other countries by satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat Kenya: general assessment: unreliable; little attempt to modernize except for service to business domestic: trunks are primarily microwave radio relay;
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

At Aldo's suggestion they took rooms in a small hotel in Rue Lafayette, for, as he said, they were not millionaires, and one could use one's money better than in spending it at grand hotels.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti

Refer to Hansard and see how it runs.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 by Various

Whimsical touches arise out of this strength of character and readiness of resource, as when he tells of the taste of the Abyssinians for raw cow’s flesh, with a sauce high in royal Abyssinian favour, made of the cow’s gall and contents of its entrails, of which, when he was pressed to partake, he could only excuse himself and his brethren by suggesting that it was too good for such humble missionaries.
— from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jerónimo Lobo