Mr. Bob Sawyer was seated, not in the dickey, but on the roof of the chaise, with his legs as far asunder as they would conveniently go, wearing Mr. Samuel Weller’s hat on one side of his head, and bearing, in one hand, a most enormous sandwich, while, in the other, he supported a goodly-sized case-bottle, to both of which he applied himself with intense relish, varying the monotony of the occupation by an occasional howl, or the interchange of some lively badinage with any passing stranger.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And Aristomenes, the tutor of Ptolemy, 472 because he went up to the king and woke him as he was asleep in an audience of some ambassadors, gave a handle to the king's flatterers who professed to be indignant on his behalf, and said, "If after your immense state-labours and many vigils you have been overpowered by sleep, he ought to have rebuked you privately, and not put his hands upon you before so many people."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He was admitted into Montague College, but indisposition obliged him to return to the bishop, by whom he was honourably entertained.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

He bore in one hand an instrument composed of an assemblage of steel rings, and shook them vigorously as he ran.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"The artifice of Louis Bonaparte, imitator of his uncle in this as in everything," said Michel de Bourges, "had been to throw out in advance an appeal to the People, a vote to be taken, a plebiscitum, in short, to create a Government in appearance at the very moment when he overturned one.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The reason we do got do this is because we work like bees or ants, by instinct or habit, not reasoning about the matter at all.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

But it often happens, that the title of first possession becomes obscure through time; and that it is impossible to determine many controversies, which may arise concerning it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The smoke at this corner was stifling, and Clark, a nimble fellow, having been handed a bucket of water, bathed Oak's face and sprinkled him generally, whilst Gabriel, now with a long beech-bough in one hand, in addition to his crook in the other, kept sweeping the stack and dislodging all fiery particles.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

This walking up and down when she was thinking was a habit of Avdotya Romanovna’s and the mother was always afraid to break in on her daughter’s mood at such moments.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Millepedes (so called from the multitude of their feet, though it cannot be supposed they have a thousand) sows, hog-lice, wood-lice, being bruised and mixed with wine, they provoke urine, help the yellow jaundice, outwardly being boiled in oil, help pains in the ears, a drop being put into them .
— 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

" "No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act , one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."
— from How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry Dexter Kitson

Her baby was pretty sick, I guess, and she didn’t like the way the old women and medicine men fussed over it, so she brought it over here to Diantha.
— from The Polly Page Ranch Club by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

"No, I don't believe it of her—I can't, and won't!"
— from The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

They were pleasant and blue like her father’s, but instead of his bold friendliness had a plaintiveness of expression which was rather charming.
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

It was even possible that she herself might come to believe it of him, and John Delancy Curtis's knight-errant soul shrank and cringed under the thought, even while the memory of Hermione's first kiss of love was still hot on his lips.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

That is obtained by imposition of hands by the servants of God, and retained by right living.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

It is we who have razed a hundred towns to their foundations with the crucifix or Bible in our hands, and who have continually persevered in shedding torrents of blood, and lighting the fires of persecution, from the reign of Constantine to the time of the religious horrors of the cannibals who inhabited the Cévennes; horrors which, praised be God, no longer exist.
— from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration. by Voltaire

If this is poetry—to give ideas such definite and clear expressions that all the world can see and understand—the poet must continually range through the entire scale of human intellects, so that he can satisfy the demands of all; he must conceal hard thinking and emotion, two antagonistic powers, beneath the most vivid color; he must know how to make one word cover a whole world of thought; he must give the results of whole systems of philosophy in a few picturesque lines; indeed, his songs are like seeds that must break into blossom in other hearts wherever they find the soil prepared by personal experience.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

D’Abbadie partly differs also in his order of events from the Abyssinian writer whom I follow; perhaps he may in some instances be right, but in others he has indubitably been misled by inaccurate recollection or by false information.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

“I don’t like that young man,” said Dave, “and he has a bad influence on Hugh.”
— from Erskine Dale—Pioneer by Fox, John, Jr.