No one has anything to spare, and I’ve only been able to collect by five- and by ten-rouble notes. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As in the first Chaos confusedly 30 Each elements qualities were in the'other three; So pride, lust, covetize, being feverall To these three places, yet all are in all, And mingled thus, their issue incestuous.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Note 93 ( return ) [ They had recourse to the expedient of composing books for their own schools.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[sauté] COOKED BRAINS, FINELY CUT MEAT [2] 3 [204] RAW EGGS, BROTH TO TASTE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The Raja of that country, begging for one of them, and giving him food, he presented him with one of the whiskers in payment.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

With regard to paternal authority, from which some writers have derived absolute government and all society, it is enough, without going back to the contrary arguments of Locke and Sidney, to remark that nothing on earth can be further from the ferocious spirit of despotism than the mildness of that authority which looks more to the advantage of him who obeys than to that of him who commands; that, by the law of nature, the father is the child's master no longer than his help is necessary; that from that time they are both equal, the son being perfectly independent of the father, and owing him only respect and not obedience.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What did you come back for?” Nikitin remains silent, and merely sniffs.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The question of how men can be free in the face of necessity, here associated with Fortune, more than once emerges in the Comedy .
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

who, being unable to persuade the Medionians to join their league, had determined to reduce the city by force.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He was now breathing heavily as before, and was seemingly unconscious; and Dorothy felt that he had come back for a moment from out the dark shadows gathering to shut them apart, so that he might speak to her once more in the voice she loved so dearly.
— from From Kingdom to Colony by Mary Devereux

The crowd made way before him as sheep before a dog, and closing behind followed steadily in his wake.
— from Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

In the west Dascyleum on the Propontis, and Sardis, the citadel of which was held by 1000 men, were the extreme points; in the interior there were so many garrisons at Celaenae, on the bridge over the Halys, and at other places west of the Halys, that a considerable army could be formed for service in the field.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

You would certainly be fined every day for unpunctuality.”
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

We were led into the drawing-room, a bare, barn-like place with cold brick floor, where there were three or four chairs, a table, an old piano, faded cretonne curtains hung on rough sticks at the windows, and small drawings pinned on the walls.
— from Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell

Everybody knows brains can be fried—just as all know they can be addled.
— from Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

If those old cordelle men could only come back for a while from their Walhalla, how they would crowd about that wind-splitting, fire-eating, iron beast, panting from its long run, and catching its breath for another plunge into the waste places and the night!
— from The River and I by John G. Neihardt

Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared with anyone.
— from A Critique of Socialism Read Before The Ruskin Club of Oakland California, 1905 by George R. Sims

But all that could be forgiven, because, weighed in the balance with a lifelong devotion and loyalty and love, they were as nothing.
— from Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Annie S. Swan