Masterpiece he brought me another time as if we hadnt enough of that in real life without some old Aristocrat or whatever his name is disgusting you more with those rotten pictures children with two heads and no legs thats the kind of villainy theyre always dreaming about with not another thing in their empty heads they ought to get slow poison the half of them then tea and toast for him buttered on both sides and newlaid eggs I suppose Im nothing any more when I wouldnt let him lick me in Holles street one night man man tyrant as ever for the one thing he slept on the floor half the night naked the way the jews used when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

No, divided as we now are, we must perish.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They were proud damsels, and were not always perfectly confidential even among themselves.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I came here like a madman, and would have destroyed my precious property; but he turned aside my deed, and was not afraid of death for it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

One evening, while the sun was still above the horizon and burning in golden lamps among the great walnut boughs, Mr. Bulstrode was pausing on horseback outside the front gate waiting for Caleb Garth, who had met him by appointment to give an opinion on a question of stable drainage, and was now advising the bailiff in the rick-yard.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

to see the strange variety of people, from Parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was Deputy Governor of the Tower when Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest ‘prentices, bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows one with another in swearing, cursing, and betting.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They were cut in the form of pillars, chamfered, channelled and pinked behind that they might not over-heat his reins: and were, within the panes, puffed out with the lining of as much blue damask as was needful: and remark, that he had very good leg-harness, proportionable to the rest of his stature.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Those sixty thousand stand of Dutch arms ( which never arrive ), and the bold stroke of trade, have turned out so ill!— Beaumarchais escaped for this time; but not for the next time, ten days after.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

to see the strange variety of people, from parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was deputy governor of the Tower when Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest 'prentices, bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows one with another cursing and betting. I soon had enough of it.
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey

I have been acquainted with many theoretical democrats, and with not a few who tried to be democratic, from kind feelings-and principles of justice; but Friend Hopper and Francis Jackson of Boston are the only two men I ever met, who were born democrats; who could not help it, if they tried; and who would not know how to try; so completely did they, by nature, ignore all artificial distinctions.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

Wylie drank a wineglassful neat, and gave a sort of sigh of satisfaction.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

They found it full of love and thoughtful care, and as pretty and as fresh as their hearts could desire, and with not a single thing in it which had not been expressly chosen for them, or planned by their father.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

But perhaps of all the endurances of nature there is none which the general consent would agree upon as the greatest, like that of a mother watching death approach, with noiseless, awful step, to the bed of her only child.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The Cossacks were gorged with provisions and drink, and were not a little astonished at the handsome reception they experienced.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

They cannot arrive, now, until after dark, and will not attack before morning; and by that time, our force will have doubled."
— from No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It was a great mess, but the Indians scraped the dough together to dry out in the sun the next day and worried not at all, for the cassava dough would all dry and be rubbed off their belongings.
— from Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds by William La Varre

But a certain Eben Dickson, apprentice with Nipper at the down town business, was called in, and so thoroughly proved his liking for the place in the course of a single afternoon that a more permanent and less appreciative successor was sought for.
— from Sweethearts at Home by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett