In the evening, when we retire to our apartments, I shall sit in the place of honour, where I shall assume a grand demeanour and speak little, gazing straight before me, and when my wife, lovely as the full moon, stands humbly in front of my chair I shall pretend not to see her.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

As she came in she paid no attention to me, as though she did not notice me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Gutúa ang tubu, Chop the sugar cane into small pieces. (→) n a piece cut off of s.t. long.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At about a mile from the town they pitch their camp; trusting that it was sufficiently secure from no other cause, than the difficulty of the approaches, the roads around being rough and craggy, in some parts narrow, in others steep.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[Cornets in sundry places. Noise and hallowing as people a Maying.]
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

each cried in scoff; “Pshaw! nonsense!
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

The country was in a state of serious alarm; and it might have a bad effect if something was not immediately done, and a disposition exhibited to act, in case it should prove necessary.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

It carried, in succession, Pánfilo Narváez, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo into what became the United States.
— from De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery by David Lavender

A Maid and a Million Men A Maid and a Million Men The Candid Confessions of Leona Canwick + Censored Indiscreetly by James G. Dunton GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers New York A MAID AND A MILLION MEN COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY J. H. SEARS & CO., INCORPORATED Second Printing, November, 1928 Third Printing, December, 1928 Fourth Printing, February, 1929 Fifth Printing, June, 1929 Sixth Printing, September, 1929 United States of America
— from A Maid and a Million Men the candid confessions of Leona Canwick, censored indiscreetly by James G. Dunton by James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

Since Mr. Brann's assassination I have seen it charged in some papers, notably one bearing the word Christian at its head, that he was killed because he had slandered his slayer's daughter, and then follows a lot of hypocritical rot about regretting bloodshed, but that there was an unwritten law that required the death of a man who would slander the female relatives of another.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

Another consideration, to be borne in mind, is, that, in this Country, there is much less real need of charity, in supplying physical necessities, than is generally supposed, by those who have not learned the more excellent way.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

It is one which, so far as my personal inclinations are concerned, I should prefer not to take.
— from Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland

Chastity is something positive, not negative.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

I did not see the De Officiis of 1465, or of 1466, of which Hermann speaks, and to which he affixes the novel date of 1462:--but I did see the De Oratore , printed by Vindelin de Spira without date; and such a copy I shall probably never see again!
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin