Besides I can pretend my right hand is disabled and make some one else sign for me, for 'there's a remedy for everything except death;' and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like; moreover, 'he who has the alcalde for his father-,' and I'll be governor, and that's higher than alcalde.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Some of Anselme's conversation is also given, and after beginning by describing in glowing terms the bygone days which he and his contemporaries had seen, and which he stated to be very different to the present, he goes on to say, "I must own, my good old friends, that I look back with pleasure on our young days; at all events the mode of doing things in those days was very superior and better in every way to that of the present....
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Then he wrote a note to Lord Henry, telling him that he was going up to town to consult his doctor and asking him to entertain his guests in his absence.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Thousands of young people are held back from undertaking what they long to do, and are kept from trying to make real their great life-dreams, because they are afraid to jostle with the world.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Kormak then went out with Bessus, whom he had challenged to fight with him, and drew apart at the place of combat.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The safety of the horseman, you know, depends almost always upon the goodness of his horse.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Meanwhile, the forgotten bells died away abruptly and all together, to the great disappointment of the lovers of bell ringing, who were listening in good faith to the peal from above the Pont du Change, and who went away dumbfounded, like a dog who has been offered a bone and given a stone.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I do not know what a palladium is, having never seen a palladium, but it is a good thing no doubt at any rate.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The eldest son has a secondary title of his father, as in the case of a duke's eldest son; the younger sons and the daughters are all addressed as the younger sons and daughters of a duke.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Then he, a right-handed man, addressed himself to that ball left-handedly, and drove it, if not any immense distance, at all events as far as he needed in order to make morally sure of his half of the hole, which was all that he, being dormy, required.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

But before making any final choice, we find from his letters that "if Page 325 France were invaded," he claimed "the right to do his duty as a citizen and a son." He entered the convent at Solesmes, first as a postulant, then as a novice.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

[Pg 133] atque utinam possis, et detur amicius aruum, remque tuam ponas in meliore loco!
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

I greatly envy you Siena; I never was there above a day, and always desired to stay longer.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

While such were the friendly remarks provoked by the air and faith of the Nazarene, Olinthus himself became sensible of the effect he was producing; he turned his eyes round, and observed the intent faces of the accumulating throng, whispering as they gazed; and surveying them for a moment with an expression, first of defiance and afterwards of compassion, he gathered his cloak round him and passed on, muttering audibly, 'Deluded idolaters!—did not last night's convulsion warn ye?
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And in as much as the service shuld be The more noble, and riche in his degree, Duk Theseus let forth three stedes bring, That trapped were in stele all glittering, And covered with the armes of Dan Arcite; And eke upon these stedes, gret and white, Ther saten folk, of which on bare his sheld, Another his spere up in his hondes held; The thridde bare with him his bow Turkeis, Of brent gold was the cas and the harneis; And riden forth a pas with sorweful chere Toward the groue, as ye shal after here.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden

Without them marriage would be a source of privation, difficulty and alienation; and family a painful encumbrance.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger