The jazz'll go to his head, and he'll stand clapping and demanding encores till his hands blister.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

For when the plague evidently spread itself, they soon began to see the folly of trusting to those unperforming creatures who had gulled them of their money; and then their fears worked another way, namely, to amazement and stupidity, not knowing what course to take or what to do either to help or relieve themselves.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

But ere he could his armour on him dight, 65 Or get his shield, his monstrous enimy With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight, An hideous Geant, ° horrible and hye, That with his tallnesse seemd to threat the skye, The ground eke groned under him for dreed; 70 His living like saw never living eye, Ne durst behold: his stature did exceed The hight of three the tallest sonnes of mortall seed.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Dorothea, early troubling her elders with questions about the facts around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why land should be entailed: those reasons, impressing her with a certain awe, might be weightier than she knew, but here was a question of ties which left them uninfringed.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pardies and rendered into Engliſh by John Harris D. D. London, printed for R. Knaplock at the Biſhop’s Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiſtle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, eſquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requeſting the perſon who should find it, if the book should be loſt or go aſtray, to reſtore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Enniſcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineſt place in the world.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I was obliged to tear asunder the ties which bound me to my beloved relatives, who still remain dear to me; painful as it is to flesh and blood, I was constrained to do so for the Lord's sake; and I exclaimed aloud in the presence of the Jews who at this time surrounded me, and who, not knowing what they did, endeavoured to hurl me down to the abyss of destruction: 'I cannot do otherwise, I must acknowledge Him, I must believe on Him, who is my Redeemer and [405] Saviour; His name is Jesus Jehovah; I cannot do otherwise, should they on account of it cut me in pieces.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He vanquished two competitors of reputation and ability, and defeated numerous armies, provided with weapons and discipline equal to his own.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The log described everything that had happened in detail, including my pauses to think.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

A glance showed me that he had it upside down—disheartening evidence that he could not read.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The lovers have met, but their families are at deadly enmity; the hero seems at the height of success, but has admitted the thought of murdering his sovereign; the old king has divided his kingdom between two hypocritical daughters, and has rejected his true child; the hero has acknowledged a sacred duty of revenge, but is weary of life: and we ask, What will come of this?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

After having looked at the broken leg, and ordered some camphorated spirit for the dislocated wrist, the Doctor entered the house of his sore-throated patient, the first piece of whose goods and chattels that presented itself being his wife.
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

A Spaniard never forgets what is personally due either to himself or his neighbours.
— from John Bull on the Guadalquivir From "Tales from All Countries" by Anthony Trollope

At the moment they were busy stripping off from the lady's face a thick layer of dried enamel that had been put on the night before.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

Moreover our cultivation was set down entirely to his account, and he got the praise which belonged to us alone.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

The traveler cannot see its stock-sights in a fortnight, and though he should be there months he will find something novel in the street-life daily, even though he does not, as Mr. Lane has so admirably done, make a study of the people.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

This direct refusal of the idea cherished by the Archduke offended him greatly, and he complained often in bitter terms that the Emperor turned a deaf ear to him as though he were the "lowest serving man at Schönbrunn."
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

"It is only my Constance speaking; only my dearest earthly treasure," he said.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

Turning to the west, the 'scourge of God', as his defeated enemies termed him, crossed with an immense army the Rhine, the Moselle, and the Seine, came to the Loire, and laid siege to Orleans.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

The figure presented in the form of sprinkling or pouring is derived from the rain descending out of heaven, penetrating the earth and making it fruitful; and it signifies the Spirit of life from God imparted to the dead, entering the heart, purging its corruption, and creating new life.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

I fancy that he is the real brains and ability of the combination, and her reputation seems mainly to rest on adding obedience and decorative embellishment to his effects.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble