On this Helen, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, sat down, and with eyes askance began to upbraid her husband.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The wise man will also, if he is in need, earn money, but only by his wisdom; he will propitiate an absolute ruler when occasion requires, and will humour him for the sake of correcting his habits; he will have a school, but not on such a system as to draw a crowd about him; he will also recite in a multitude, but that will be against his inclination; he will pronounce dogmas, and will express no doubts; he will be the same man asleep and awake; and he will be willing even to die for a friend.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Matthew dreaded all women except Marilla and Mrs. Rachel; he had an uncomfortable feeling that the mysterious creatures were secretly laughing at him.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I saw the donkey and was extremely pleased with it, and from that moment my head seemed to clear.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Young Adams was one of her first guests, and drove about Wenlock Edge and the Wrekin with her, learning the loveliness of this exquisite country, and its stores of curious antiquity.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He saw his beautiful creature every hour, he set her lessons every day, and was extremely pleased to see what proficiency she made.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

The spot was lonely, the river deep and wide enough to make such a purpose easy of accomplishment.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But I hope they will do all well enough.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Their huts are very small and dingy, being constructed with bent sticks on which palm-leaf matting is stretched; inside they are decorated with their paraphernalia for weddings and camel-travelling, all elaborately decorated with cowrie and other shells, the most remarkable of these things being the tall conical hats with long streamers used for dances at weddings, entirely covered with cowrie shells in pretty patterns.
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

We observe the principle of proportion when we select the material of our vocabularies in such a way that due attention is paid to all such desiderata, and without exaggerating the importance of any of them.
— from The Principles of Language-Study by Harold E. Palmer

Be pleased, my good Lord, to order the sum to be paid into the hands of Mr. Dodsley , for the benefit of the author; and in the next edition care shall be taken that this chapter be expunged, and your Lordship’s titles, distinctions, arms, and good actions, be placed at the front of the preceding chapter: All which, from the words, De gustibus non est disputandum , and whatever else in this book relates to Hobby-Horses , but no more, shall stand dedicated to your Lordship.—The rest I dedicate to the Moon , who, by the bye, of all the Patrons or Matrons I can think of, has most power to set my book a-going, and make the world run mad after it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Were not my ships in their full pride at Dover; And what English Charybdis has the devil digg'd To swallow nearer home.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

A few days after, when encamped on the headwaters of the river, he again met with a covey, and from that point occasionally encountered them on the route to the Pecos River, a distance of over a hundred miles.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

“Is Monsieur Juste Duvarney alive?” With exasperating coolness he winked an eye, to connect the event with what he kn
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

“Five dollars a week!” exclaimed Mr. Goldwin.
— from The Boy Broker; Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey

Ask his “boys,” who for four years followed him with unquestioning devotion and with ever-increasing love and admiration, and they will with one accord and with voices tremulous with emotion answer that he never lagged, failed, or faltered.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet