When will you bestow a smile on me?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Why, if you keep him in your house, won't he be a source of mischief?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

He made his first appearance in the "Debats" by a series of masterly articles which called forth from Lousteau the remark that he was "one of the princes of criticism."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I took him, it being 3 o’clock, to my lodgings and did give him a good dinner and so parted, he being pretty close to me as to any business of the fleete, knowing me to be a servant of my Lord Sandwich’s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

MEAT, "carry — in one's mouth," be a source of money or entertainment.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Upon this, first self-commiseration, then indignation, and after that resentment, took possession of their minds: "Were their calamities to be a subject of mockery to the Etrurians, from whom they had turned off the Gallic war on themselves?"
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

See, the Nishádas here have brought The fruit and roots their hands have sought: And we have woodland fare beside, And store of meat both fresh and dried.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

There was no reason, said Trevelyan, why I should not be absolutely sure of my place on the class team.
— from The Seven-Branched Candlestick: The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel

But the men have so little—unsweetened coffee and black bread for breakfast; a stew of meat and vegetables at mid-day, taken to them, when it can be taken, but carried miles from where it is cooked, and usually cold.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

It has no title, but is supposed to be a soliloquy of Mr. Stone's: I wish my men were more like Plumbe
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

All the brothers and sisters of my grandfather and of my grandmother are my grandfathers and grandmothers.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

But why insist upon the migration of plants growing in the lowlands and about the bases and sides of mountains, and not suggest some means of transport for the equally beautiful flora, known as "alpine," on the mountain summits of the earth?
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

The woman afterwards became a sort of Magdalen in the new community.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

On the 11th of that month, which happened to be a Sunday, old Mrs. Haltridge was reading Dr. Wedderburn’s Sermons on the Covenant , when, laying the book aside for a little while, nobody being in the room all the time, it was suddenly taken away.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour

I can never be used by any set of Ministers so ill, or with such indignity, as by those who are removed. . .
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

But at sight of me, his countenance fell.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various