When supper-time came, however, Alexey Ivanovitch was listening to every footstep, to every sound of the door, and kept shrugging his shoulders.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I can affirm the same of Mr. Dryden , and know several of the most refined Writers of our present Age who are of the same Humour.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Sich selbst bekämpfen ist der allerschwerste Krieg; / Sich selbst besiegen ist der allerschönste Sieg —To maintain a conflict with one's self is the hardest of all wars; to overcome one's self is the noblest of all victories.
— 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.

At the brook they parted with many promises to spend the next afternoon together. “Well, did you find Diana a kindred spirit?” asked Marilla as they went up through the garden of Green Gables.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As first (1 Sam. 8.7.) when the Elders of Israel (grieved with the corruption of the Sons of Samuel) demanded a King, Samuel displeased therewith, prayed unto the Lord; and the Lord answering said unto him, "Hearken unto the voice of the People, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Teacher had been trying all the morning to make me understand that the mug and the milk in the mug had different names; but I was very dull, and kept spelling MILK for mug, and mug for milk until teacher must have lost all hope of making me see my mistake.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

went to the door, and, knocking, said: "Beware of the Wolf and all his race."
— from Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources by Aesop

Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej , see Segel.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

that is, movable round the corners while the case is under examination, but both corners well drawn down and kept so when the final opinion is made up.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The invalid was thin with her illness, and it was found that she could easily wear the girl's simple dress of dark blue with a white collar, and little dark hat, and Elizabeth donned a khaki skirt and brown cap and sweater herself and gladly arrayed her old friend in her own bridal travelling gown for her journey.
— from The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill

I just hate all men and boys except my Dad, and Kep, so I do, that’s my mind right now, see?’
— from Letters of the Motor Girl by Ethellyn Gardner

The Berbers gave the party a little food and water before they broke camp and vanished in the desert, and Kit started for the coast.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

1315 Edward Bruce marches to Dundalk At Kilsaggart Schir Edward lay; And thar weill soyne he has herd say,
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

On the top of a moor or in a deep glen Emily was a child in spirit for glee and enjoyment; or when thrown entirely on her own resources to do a kindness, she could be vivacious in conversation and enjoy giving pleasure.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter