Look here, fool and dolt (for so I may call you, when you don't understand my words, and run away from good fortune), if I had said that my daughter was to throw herself down from a tower, or go roaming the world, as the Infanta Dona Urraca wanted to do, you would be right in not giving way to my will; but if in an instant, in less than the twinkling of an eye, I put the 'Don' and 'my lady' on her back, and take her out of the stubble, and place her under a canopy, on a dais, and on a couch, with more velvet cushions than all the Almohades of Morocco ever had in their family, why won't you consent and fall in with my wishes?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

38 Bingley has the following marvelous story of the supposed rapacity of the Stag-beetle, which, it has been remarked, if not gravely stated by the reverend editor of the 027.png Animal Biography, as related to him by one of his own intimate and intelligent friends, might have been supposed by the general reader to have been borrowed from the Travels of the veracious Munchausen.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan

But Rome is now grown wise, and since that she Her suffrages, and ancient liberty Lost in a monarch's name, she takes no care For favourite or prince; nor will she share Their fickle glories, though in Cato's days She rul'd whole States and armies with her voice.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

Aristotle, as Boeckh remarks, is not given to multiply words unnecessarily.
— from Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine by George Grote

The scenery of the southern slope of the Blue Ridge, in Northern Georgia, is justly celebrated for its sublimity and wildness.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

"Lynx-Eye, grandson of Long Carbine," said Simon, "we will avenge your friend, but Rolleston is not guilty of his murder. . . ."
— from The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc

The next year the two forces met on the edge of the plains of Apulia, at Asculum, but the battle resulted in no gain to Pyrrhus, who was again obliged to retire for the winter to Tarentum.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

he ground to be recovered is not great, and a pretty little south-east wind should float us, with square yards, round the Cape in three or four days."
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

Its head-streams rise in the Blue Ridge in northeastern Georgia, and flowing southwest and afterwards south, it forms the western boundary of the State.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

But religion is not gained, any more than human freedom, once for all time—it must be gained continually afresh, and sought ever anew.
— from Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Abel J. (Abel John) Jones