The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

And having, whether he liked or not, taken up for himself the position of an independent man, he carried it off with great tact and good sense, behaving as though he bore no grudge against anyone, did not regard himself as injured in any way, and cared for nothing but to be left alone since he was enjoying himself.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The determined effort to head it off by laying a strong hand upon the tenement builders that has been the chief business of the Health Board of recent years, dates from this period.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

And anon the sea that touched and was fast to the mount began to withdraw him, and shewed fair way of nine foot breadth large; and so he passed with his folk, and won p. 149
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

This night I will get an heir, and thrust him out of my blood, like a stranger; he would be knighted, forsooth, and thought by that means to reign over me; his title must do it: No, kinsman, I will now make you bring me the tenth lord's and the sixteenth lady's letter, kinsman; and it shall do you no good, kinsman.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

The queen at her earnest request, is given a small image of the Christ child, the same afterward recovered by Legazpi, and still held in the greatest of reverence at Cebú.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

After dinner I took my wife and her girl out to the New Exchange, and there my wife bought herself a lace for a handkercher, which I do give her, of about L3, for a new year’s gift, and I did buy also a lace for a band for myself, and so home, and there to the office busy late, and so home to my chamber, where busy on some accounts, and then to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Rome, however, I ought perhaps to mention, because long ago she had just such a fortune, I mean when the Galatians and Celts 128 conspired together, and without warning poured down on the city like a winter torrent.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He scolded us sternly for being late, and said he meant to flog us both well for our idleness
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Just about that, and no less," returns Mrs. Bagnet, laughing and shaking her head.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Who knows, had all the 44,000 been as rash as Stair and his English, but luck, and sheer hard fighting, might have favored him, as skill could not, in those sad circumstances!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle

Would the savage be less a savage had he not before him that type of a Divine ideal?
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 2 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

What are you talking about?” Billy laughed, and settled herself more comfortably on the hassock at Aunt Hannah's feet.
— from Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

After many unsuccessful chases Billy recommended that the black reynard [pg 262] be let alone, saying he was near akin to another sable and wily character.
— from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities by Paul Leland Haworth

He saw the big lobster and said he would buy it, to take home to cook for supper.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope

He does not behave like a servant; he never asks for my orders.
— from The Outrage by Annie Vivanti

If her hands had been loose, and she had possessed a knife just then—we are afraid to think of the dreadful use to which she would have put it.
— from Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Ma said she'd be lonesome," added she hurriedly, and then her cheeks began to burn as if she had really told a lie instead of suggesting one.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 by Various

Yet at that very moment Carnegie was planning to play the part of a Charles V with the large empire which he had pieced together—to abdicate his throne, retire from business life, and spend his remaining days in quiet.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Ireland’s civilisation developed along other and more barbaric lines, and so had no opportunity of assimilating the particular phases of that belief which obtained elsewhere in Europe.
— from Irish Witchcraft and Demonology by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour