The footman was unwilling to take in his name, but finally called a maid.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nor breathe from combat, nor thy sword suspend, Till Troy receive her flying sons, till all Her routed squadrons pant behind their wall: Hector alone shall stand his fatal chance, And Hector's blood shall smoke upon thy lance.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Being first cousin to Lord Snigsworth, he was in frequent requisition, and at many houses might be said to represent the dining-table in its normal state.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Mr O’Madden Burke, following close, said with an ally’s lunge of his umbrella: —Lay on, Macduff! —Chip of the old block!
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

For the virtues of all Vinegars, take this one only observation, They carry the same virtues with the flowers whereof they are made, only as we said of Wines, that they were better for cold bodies then the bare simples whereof they are made; so are Vinegars for hot bodies.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The guns of that battery were being fired continually one after another with a deafening roar, enveloping the whole neighborhood in powder smoke.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She had always been predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to sanctity.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He seems to have made a wretched livelihood by frequenting city feasts, &c., where, at the end of the entertainment, he was called in to mount a stool and amuse the company by stringing together a number of vile rhymes upon any given subject.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

You take him at the age of six months, and the education must be fairly complete when he is a year old.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The English prefixes are not so often useful in determining peculiar spelling, but for completeness we give them here: a——at, in, on (ahead) be——to make, by (benumb)
— from The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody

And in order to encourage these views to their own interest and happiness, as well as to render secure our claim to an island valuable on many considerations, I have taken on myself to promise them that they shall be so adopted; that our chief shall be their chief; and they have given assurances that such of their brethren as may hereafter visit them from the United States shall enjoy a welcome and hospitable reception among them and be furnished with whatever refreshments and supplies the island may afford; that they will protect them against all their enemies and as far as lies in their power prevent the subjects of Great Britain from coming among them until peace shall take place between the two nations.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

And what better fortune could I ask than to be allowed to obey your decree?” Patty was greatly relieved when he took the matter thus lightly.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

The mystery as to the movements of D'Erlon and his 20,000 men has never been fully cleared up.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

As a result of Michael Davitt's labours, that land is to-day more nearly than it has been for centuries the property of the people, and it seems now, humanly speaking, impossible that they should ever be dispossessed of it again.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

On his way back from Chini, Dumoise turned aside to Bagi, through the Forest Reserve which is on the spur of Mount Huttoo.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

Flushed with hope, undoubting of triumph, her citizens only listened for the wild cheer that would echo back from conquered Washington.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

These squirrels were attracted to the carcasses of rodents used as bait for carnivore sets, and caused a good deal of trouble by disturbing the traps.
— from Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California by Terry A. Vaughan

An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits; Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various