However, he refused to comply with her proposals, and called a counsel of his friends to consult with them whether he should not kill her, now he had her in his power; for that he should thereby deliver all those from a multitude of evils to whom she was already become irksome, and was expected to be still so for the time to come; and that this very thing would be much for the advantage of Antony himself, since she would certainly not be faithful to him, in case any such season or necessity should come upon him as that he should stand in need of her fidelity.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Then Christiana began to cry, and she said, "Oh, naughty boy!
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

With this Dr. Semple, as editor, published the Californian, a small sheet of news, once a week; and it was a curiosity in its line, using two v's for a w, and other combinations of letters, made necessary by want of type.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Turning his back on Karl Pearson and England, he plunged into Germany, and had scarcely crossed the Rhine when he fell into libraries of new works bearing the names of Ostwald, Ernst Mach, Ernst Haeckel, and others less familiar, among whom Haeckel was easiest to approach, not only because of being the oldest and clearest and steadiest spokesman of nineteenth-century mechanical convictions, but also because in 1902 he had published a vehement renewal of his faith.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Then came a steady succession of novels by Richard Dehan.
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

The friends of his youth are asleep with their fathers ; the playmates of his childhood have also been laid in the cold and silent sepulchres of Nebo or Pisgah.
— from The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young by Philip Barrett

Obviously six or seven can't tackle two or three hundred well-fed Chinamen and some scores of negritos.
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

“It's d' same t'ing as d' chair at Sing Sing, only not so warm.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

[30] relates no less than Eighty Bishops before that Council, to have disallowed the reception of the word ὁμούσιος ; and in the Council also Seventeen, (some of note) at first to have dissented from the rest. §. 14.
— from The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism by R. H.

Fortunately his heart was in the task, and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies not only rank among his most powerful and convincing works, but must also be counted as superior specimens of national music in general.
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Children are sometimes suspected of not having listened to what has been said to them, when they cannot exactly repeat the words that they have heard; they often ask questions, and make observations, which seem quite foreign to the present business; but this is not always a proof that their minds are absent, or that their attention is dissipated.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth