On metal and wicker plates they are bringing in piles of cakes and tarts.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

But it proceeds or comes from them to you,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This silly conceit intoxicated me so much, that I was guilty of a thousand ridiculous coquetries; and I dare say, how favourable soever the thoughts of the company might be at my first appearance, they were soon changed by my absurd behaviour into pity or contempt.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And although they were the wisest, and most admired in their age, as he censured Alexander, I do them, there were 10,000 in his army as worthy captains (had they been in place of command) as valiant as himself; there were myriads of men wiser in those days, and yet all short of what they ought to be.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the shock of the balls and the piercing voice of the Cardinal shouting to his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop in partibus of Caryste: “Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In spite of all its incoherencies and futilities the Essay is an honest attempt to express Pope's opinions, borrowed in part, of course, from his admired friend, but in part the current notions of his age, on some of the greatest questions that have perplexed the mind of man.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

"Yes, but in point of companionship one would prefer that she should be represented by her brandy-cherries and cream-cakes.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

These collective ideas of substances the mind makes, by its power of composition, and uniting severally either simple or complex ideas into one, as it does, by the same faculty, make the complex ideas of particular substances, consisting of an aggregate of divers simple ideas, united in one substance.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

If he doesn't believe in people, of course, he does despise them.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not very easy to draw a line between domesticated animals and animals that are often bred in partial or complete captivity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Wells were dug; pavements laid; streets graded; ponds drained; and a general activity prevailed which showed some attention toward making the town more desirable as a residence, both in point of comfort and of health.
— from The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

" "In reality we are only as far from the Asheville Court House as the people on the upper boundary of the Bronx are from Castle Garden; but in point of convenience, owing to the scarcity of trains and their poor arrangement, we are almost as near to Washington.
— from A Tar-Heel Baron by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

[38] Engines on a very large scale constructed upon this principle are said to be in process of construction for an iron steam-vessel of great tonnage, which is in preparation for the New York passage.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

It bore, in point of character and decency, about the same relation to a court of justice that Musard's balls do to Almack's.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

If in one of the centers the Jews are subject to prolonged persecution, then their gradual transplantation, be it partial or complete, to another center offering more favorable opportunities in the struggle for existence ought to be attempted.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Born in plural or celestial marriage, and with an understanding of this condition, as much as any young girl can possess, a wife in the same order of marriage.
— from Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches by Augusta Joyce Crocheron

A cereal is usually put in the covered dish, toast in a napkin on a plate, or eggs and bacon in place of cereal.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

There were eight other Windsor chairs in the room—Helen was sitting on one that had not been sat upon for years and years—a teeming but idle population of chairs.
— from Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett

[337] The 18th Fructidor, however, had in the interim taken place, and the Republican party, being in possession of complete authority, broke off the negotiation, if it could be called such, abruptly, and ordered the English ambassador out of the dominions of the republic with very little ceremony.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

We lay in the big ice pack off Cape Breton, getting a load of seal pelts.
— from A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock