I once asked Steven Ruan, the Galway piper, if he had ever heard of such a thing as people being born more than once here on this earth, seeing that I was seeking for traces of the old Irish Doctrine of Re-birth.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The first loved consort of my virgin bed Before these eyes in fatal battle bled: My three brave brothers in one mournful day All trod the dark, irremeable way: Thy friendly hand uprear'd me from the plain, And dried my sorrows for a husband slain; Achilles' care you promised I should prove, The first, the dearest partner of his love; That rites divine should ratify the band, And make me empress in his native land.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It took me a long while to convince them that what they felt was not another little baron, but merely the vibration caused by my expelling my breath in a way peculiar to the people of the upper world.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This may be bad morality to conclude with, but I believe it to be truth; and if such parties succeed, how should a Captain Wentworth and an Anne Elliot, with the advantage of maturity of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune between them, fail of bearing down every opposition?
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Would it be better, madam, than I am, I wish it might; for now I am your fool.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler; work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw, into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness; fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Helen wrote a little letter, and, enclosing the manuscript, forwarded both by mail to Mr. Anagnos for his birthday.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Wallenstein retired to his estates in Bohemia, but maintained the pomp and splendor of a prince of the empire.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

I think that in every instance it would be found that the stays have been badly made, that they have not been properly laced, or that the busk and materials have not been sufficiently firm.
— from The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time by William Barry Lord

The plain facts {pg 204} passing tactiturity=> passing taciturnity {pg 208} Bertha was dumbfoundered=> Bertha was dumbfounded {pg 219} your Aunt Betty beseeches me too look=> your Aunt Betty beseeches me to look {pg 238} Gray
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

August 26th, at Hanover, there is signed a CONVENTION OF HANOVER between Friedrich and him: "Peace on the old Breslau-Berlin terms,—precisely the same terms, but Britannic Majesty to have them guaranteed by All the Powers, on the General Peace coming,—so that there be no snake-procedure henceforth."
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

"I know it will be a hard matter," said Boone; "but Mary thinks you have a good and brave heart, and she says you are the only one among us that uses bad words.
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

man, don’t begin when we’re in the middle of our plans,” interrupted Benjy, “let us hear what book Butterface means to take.”
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

here are pure dictates of a brutish beastly man, that neither knows himself nor one title of the word of God.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan