Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Colonels of regiments and commanders of corps are liable to severe punishment for permitting their men to leave their camps to commit waste or destruction; but I know full well that many of the acts attributed to soldiers are committed by citizens and negroes, and are charged to soldiers because of a desire to find fault with them; but this only reacts upon the community and increases the mischief.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I beg your pardon, answered my father; I was reading, though not using, one of them to my brother Toby this morning, whilst he pour’d out the tea—’tis here upon the 7 shelf over my head;—but if I remember right, ’tis too violent for a cut of the thumb.—Not at all, quoth Dr. Slop —the devil take the fellow.——Then, answered my father, ’Tis much at your service, Dr. Slop —on condition you will read it aloud;——so rising up and reaching down a form of excommunication of the church of Rome, a copy of which, my father (who was curious in his collections) had procured out of the leger-book of the church of Rochester, writ by E RNULPHUS the bishop——with a most affected seriousness of look and voice, which might have cajoled E RNULPHUS himself—he put it into Dr. Slop ’s hands.——Dr.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I beg your pardon, answered my father; I was reading, though not using, one of them to my brother Toby this morning, whilst he pour'd out the tea—'tis here upon the shelf over my head;—but if I remember right, 'tis too violent for a cut of the thumb.—Not at all, quoth Dr. Slop—the devil take the fellow.—Then, answered my father, 'Tis much at your service, Dr. Slop—on condition you will read it aloud;—so rising up and reaching down a form of excommunication of the church of Rome, a copy of which, my father (who was curious in his collections) had procured out of the leger-book of the church of Rochester, writ by Ernulphus the bishop—with a most affected seriousness of look and voice, which might have cajoled Ernulphus himself—he put it into Dr. Slop's hands.—Dr.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

the devil take the fellow.——Then, answered my father, ’Tis much at your service, Dr. Slop —on condition you will read it aloud;——so rising up and reaching down a form of excommunication of the church of Rome , a copy of which, my father (who was curious in his collections) had procured out of the leger-book of the church of Rochester , writ by Ernulphus the bishop——with a most affected seriousness of look and voice, which might have cajoled Ernulphus himself—he put it into Dr. Slop’s hands.——Dr.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

published his decretals [o], which are a collection of forgeries, favourable to the court of Rome, and consist of the supposed decrees of popes in the first centuries.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

I saw a little girl three years ago, With eyes of azure and with cheeks of red, A crowd of sunbeams hanging down her face; Sweet laughter round her; dancing like a breeze.
— from Poems Third Edition by Alexander Smith

It could then be from no other motive than avarice, or a design of establishing, in the first instance, the same taxes in America as are paid in England (which, as I shall presently show, are above eleven times heavier than the taxes we now pay for the present year, 1780) or, in the second instance, to confiscate the whole property of America, in case of resistance and conquest of the latter, of which she had then no doubt.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

As I could only remain a couple of days on board the Ottawa , as she was to return immediately to Constantinople, I employed my time in settling my plan of campaign.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

In Isabel’s mind to-day there was nothing clear; there was a confusion of regrets, a complication of fears.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

C o rrézza, as C o rréggia, &c. C o rrezzuóla, as C o rreggiuóla.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

For a moment only he must lift the curtain, or rather a corner of it—like one who from the stage desires to see how the house is filling, or perchance to give the carpet a final tug for the characters to pair off upon and make their farewell bows.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

His baggage was unpacked at once, and now he and a friend, laden with knapsacks, ice-axes, coils of rope, and canteens of milk, were just setting out.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Cecilia, however unhappy, had too just a way of thinking to indulge in selfish grief, where occasion called her to action for the benefit of others: scarce a moment, therefore now did she allow to sorrow and herself, but assiduously bestowed the whole of her time upon her two sick friends, dividing her attention according to their own desire or convenience, without consulting or regarding any choice of her own.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney