People cannot live upon nothing, you know; and ‘love in a cottage’ is an exploded fallacy.”
— from She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

"Perhaps," said Hal, with a double meaning, that was, of course, lost upon Nicolas, "you shall receive your just pay before the war ends."
— from The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Thus they throughout the city made moan: but the Achaians when they were come to the ships and to the Hellespont were scattered each to his own ship: only the Myrmidons Achilles suffered not to be scattered, but spake among his comrades whose delight was in war: "Fleet-horsed Myrmidons, my trusty comrades, let us not yet unyoke our whole-hooved steeds from their cars, but with horses and chariots let us go near and mourn Patroklos, for such is the honour of the dead.
— from The Iliad by Homer