I have seen a lady's nose That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Syloson accordingly told all that had happened about the mantle, and how he was the man who had given it; to which Dareios made answer: "O most noble of men, thou art he who when as yet I had no power gavest me a gift, small it may be, but nevertheless the kindness is counted with me to be as great as if I should now receive some great thing from some one.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

As if tears had been both nourishment and medicine, I found myself the better for those I shed with her, while seated on her bed-side, and holding her hands between mine.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I thought that storm was brief, — The maddest, quickest by; But Nature lost the date of this, And left it in the sky.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

A bonde, by name Thorgils Halmason, father to Grim the Good, dwelt in Stiklestad farm.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

A younger child who is calm and soothing would better be next to his mother than an older who is of more nervous temperament.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Ibarra went bareheaded, but no tear wet his eyes nor did any sigh escape from his breast.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I have heard That Charon's boat serves to convey all o'er The dismal lake, but brings none back again. BOSOLA.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

" I explained to her that she was not yet able to understand what had been told her, and so easily led her to see that it would be better not to talk about such things until she was wiser.
— 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

The liberation of the Slave was coming, and that speedily through the agency of Brown, but not in the way he had intended.
— from John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe

I am amused, but by no means pleased, at an entirely new mode of pronouncing which S—— has adopted.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

The landlord was very anxious to decorate the tables with greens, flags, and perhaps a bust of Racine with a crown of laurels, but we told him it would be better not to complicate things.
— from Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington

She had telegraphed to Godfrey the proposed time of her arrival at the studio, and expected to find him there; for surely the slight chill would be better by now?
— from Mrs. Maxon Protests by Anthony Hope

Others, however, whilst including all Gentiles in these Seven Tribes, assert that the prohibition was not on account of any special impurity, such women being vermin or brute beasts not subject to the normal feminine infirmities.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Hitherto the war had seemed to make a break with all that had gone before, but now the war was only part of the picture.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

He was a great magician, Tycho Brahe, But not so great that he could read the heart Or rule the hand of princes.
— from Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes

But Betty Neal was already clattering down the stairs.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

Notwithstanding this, Miss Barton bought nine hundred bushels of Early Rose potatoes.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton