"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni Mandassero a Cristiani, e di quai parti: Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"If I have not," pursues Sir Leicester, "in the most emphatic manner, adjured you, officer, to exercise your utmost skill in this atrocious case, I particularly desire to take the present opportunity of rectifying any omission I may have made.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The worn and wasted look which had prematurely aged her face was fast leaving it, and the expression which had been the first of its charms in past days was the first of its beauties that now returned.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Chesterfield says, “Civility is particularly due to all women; and, remember, that no provocation whatsoever can justify any man in not being civil to every woman; and the greatest man would justly be reckoned a brute if he were not civil to the meanest woman.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

How could I possibly do everything.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This battle fares like to the morning's war, When dying clouds contend with growing light, What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, Can neither call it perfect day nor night.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"I was, as you can imagine, pretty down on my luck at this time, for I was a useless cripple though not yet in my twentieth year.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then the supper, which consisted of rice and very salt 381 fish, and was contained in porcelain dishes, was brought in.
— 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

As soon as the spirit has changed his temporary abode the animal is quickly dragged away to a crossing of four roads, and if there are no roads a cross is previously drawn on the ground, where a grave for the animal is dug, into which it is mercilessly thrown and buried alive.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

But the chief inference Paul draws from the truth [87] that the Church is God's building is the grave responsibility of those who labour for God in this work.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods

Clad in plain dark homespun, which was fashioned into a suit somewhat resembling the doublet and hose of olden times, his tall thin figure had a distinctly aristocratic look and bearing which was lacking when clothed in the labourer's garb.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

CHAPTER II Paul de Kock, other minors of 1800-1830, and Nodier 39
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

She won't use that recipe I got from your Mammy Kitty to make the cake I promised David Kildare for tea.
— from Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess

11 When the button at Chicago is pressed down, the electricity passing over the wire to Denver presses the point there down on the paper, and so makes a dot or dash which stands for a letter on the roll of paper as it passes under it.
— from The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

A characteristic of Chinese worship is the firm inculcated belief that the spirits in whose honour a ceremony is performed descend from heaven to receive the offerings prepared for them.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

Chief points of interest, 196 . Mallay, M., on the churches in Puy de Dome, ii, 89 .
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson