"Which many has," as Mr Ridley remarks, from Xanthias Phoceus downwards; but when we remember the historic fact that he married this maid (not a "cook-maid" at all), and that though he always speaks of her with warm affection and hearty respect, such "raptures" as we have of his clearly refer to a very different woman, who was both a lady and a beautiful one, we begin a little to shake our heads.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

ou she demeurs now, and did charge her para say nothing of me that I had vu elle, which she did promise, and so with my heart full of surprize and disorder I away, and meeting with Sir H. Cholmley walked into the Park with him and back again, looking to see if I could spy her again in the Park, but I could not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Come at two o’clock, I shall be dining there, and as I have got to speak to her cousin you will be at liberty to say what you like.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Barrymore asked leave to speak with Sir Henry, and they were closeted in his study some little time.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

CLAPS HIS DISH, a clap, or clack, dish (dish with a movable lid) was carried by beggars and lepers to show that the vessel was empty, and to give sound of their approach.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

She has sent to say she wants to see me directly, and the maid reports that her mistress is apparently very much agitated by a letter that she has received this morning—the same letter, no doubt, which I sent on to the house before we came here.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I've a special interest in such young bears, and like to show them that I see the warm, honest, well-meaning boys' hearts, in spite of the clumsy arms and legs and the topsy-turvy heads.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Here he ceased to be the oakum-headed, oakum-whiskered man on whom Miss Pleasant Riderhood had looked, and, allowing for his being still wrapped in a nautical overcoat, became as like that same lost wanted Mr Julius Handford, as never man was like another in this world.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

For a verbal and scholastic altercation let them have as much appearance as their contradictors; “Videantur sane, non affirmentur modo;” [“They may indeed appear to be; let them not be affirmed (Let them state the probabilities, but not affirm.)
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And now Dawn broke, and, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, shed her radiance anew over the world; when the Queen saw from her watch-tower the first light whitening, and the fleet standing out under squared sail, and discerned shore and haven empty of all their oarsmen.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

But at least there shall be no more reservations, and as an earnest I shall make no further secret of the greatest wrong that even Raffles ever did me.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Donnelly listened with interest, and for a time plied Blake with shrewd questions, but at length the subject seemed to lose its importance in his mind.
— from The Net by Rex Beach

But in his heart he added: "The pious Mefres begins at last to show his claws and teeth.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

But Teukros, steadily regarding him, avoided by a little the spear of bronze; so Hector struck Amphimachos, son of Kteatos, son of Aktor, in the breast with the spear, as he was returning to the battle.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Save in a few cases, therefore, the Shrike does not collect the dead and withered remains: it is from the growing plants that he reaps his harvest, mowing them down with his beak and leaving the sheaves to dry in the sun before using them.
— from Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre

He, as at this time, lay in His mother's arms, to all appearance helpless and powerless, and was wrapped by Mary in an infant's bands, and laid to sleep in a manger.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

The moon, though incomparably smaller than the sun, is so much nearer the earth, that her apparent diameter differs but little from his, but both are liable to such variations that they alternately surpass one another.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

To this perhaps it will be said, that the people being ignorant, and always discontented, to lay the foundation of government in the unsteady opinion and uncertain humour of the people, is to expose it to certain ruin; and no government will be able long to subsist, if the people may set up a new legislative, whenever they take offence at the old one.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

He made a shift to thrust them off at last, and stooping to his bag he drew out something and cast it on the board, and lo the sheared-off head of a great grey wolf with gaping jaws and glistening white fangs, and the women shrank before it.
— from The Sundering Flood by William Morris