Then called on Mrs. Martin and Burroughs of Westminster about business of the former’s husband.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The children of metics may also be metics; and the period of twenty years, during which they are permitted to sojourn, is to count, in their case, from their fifteenth year.
— from Laws by Plato

Therefore keep thy counsel, O my mother, and babble not of our secret.”
— from Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Anonymous

This cloud of music melts away before the mighty chant of the Brahmins as they march to the pagoda.
— from Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba by Mabel Wagnalls

The irregular cavalcade of mounted men and boys and loose animals passed in among the trees,—sturdy oaks, broad topped elms, great basswoods, which Louis called bois blanc ,—white wood,—and Walter lindens .
— from South from Hudson Bay: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

"It were honorable in you, Cacami, to be considerate of my mother and brother's pleasure in the matter of our troth.
— from A Prince of Anahuac: A Histori-traditional Story Antedating the Aztec Empire by James A. Porter

The rigid course of discipline and abstinence, to which I was condemned, invigorated the constitution of my mind and body; poverty and pride estranged me from my countrymen.
— from Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon

The cantil or Mexican moccasin ( A. bilineatus ), probably the nearest relative of the cottonmouth ( A. piscivorus ), is divisible into two subspecies and occupies a nearly complementary range from Mexico south to Nicaragua.
— from Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Ray D. Burkett

Twm , though naturally elated with his good fortune, did not suffer it to overcome his caution for the rest of the journey; and as he found himself no less than seventy-four miles from London, he calculated on many more attacks before he should reach it.
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

"Big sweetheart," she said, "what a smart man you would be if you could only make me a bigger doll than this, which would open and shut its eyes and cry ' fus ; hush!'"
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

The little one is dragged from her dead mother's neck while she has still the strength to cry out " Maman! maman !" and borne through the surf by the fisherman Felix, to the arms of his wife.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

And the cunning one made money and became rich—very rich—so rich that he thought himself far too good for the village.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome