Picture of a butting match, trying to crack their bloody skulls, one chap going for the other with his head down like a bull at a gate.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully, looking at Babbitt lifelessly.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

[4670] A dolphin loved a boy called Hernias, and when he died, the fish came on land, and so perished.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So saying, through each Thicket Danck or Drie, Like a black mist low creeping, he held on 180 His midnight search, where soonest he might finde The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowl'd, FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size His head the midst, well stor'd with suttle wiles: Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe Fearl
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

I doubtless looked as bewildered as I felt.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

191.—THE CRESCENT PUZZLE.— solution Referring to the original diagram, let AC be x , let CD be x - 9, and let EC be x - 5.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

They accused her of having brought it all about, and told her that she could not desert Lacedaemon and become the ally of Argos, without adding violation of her oaths to the crime which she had already committed in not accepting the treaty with Athens, when it had been expressly agreed that the decision of the majority of the allies should be binding, unless the gods or heroes stood in the way.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

O Ráma, cheer thy trembling heart; Not thus do life and body part.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It is the instinctive sense of what to do and what not to do in daily life and behavior that is the source of liberty and ease.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Thence the boundary runs up the Haymarket, along the north side of Leicester Square and Long Acre to Drury Lane and by Sardinia Street and the south side of Lincoln's Inn Fields to Chancery Lane, the south end of which constitutes its eastern boundary.
— from The Dwelling House by George Vivian Poore

[Pg 51] would be doing something that Dick Lewis and Bob Kelly and all the best hunters in the settlement had tried in vain to accomplish.
— from Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho by Harry Castlemon

I've given orders that no one is to be admitted but Dick Lomas and Bobbie.
— from Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Look at Fitz-Alwin resisting one Sovereign, Walworth defending another, Picard feasting four Kings at his Table, Philpot raising a thousand Men at his private Charges to put down Pirates, Bamne relieving a great Dearth by importing foreign Corn, Falconer supplying Henry the Fifth with the Wherewithal for his French Wars, Whittington founding Divinity Lectures and building Newgate , Wells supplying the City with fresh Water, Eyre building Leadenhall for a Public Garner, and bestowing five thousand Marks on the Poor, Stockton knighted on the Field by his King for good Service in Battle, Fabian compiling Chronicles, White founding a College, and defending our Bridge; and, not to be farther tedious unto thee, Sir William Hewet , the Benefactor of every Hospital, and of the Poor of every Parish, {280} besides bequeathing a Dowry to every poor Maid in the Parish of Wales or Hartshill in Yorkshire that should marry within a Year of his Decease.
— from The Colloquies of Edward Osborne, Citizen and Clothworker of London by Anne Manning

“We did,” said Drummond, laughing; “and brought in these three fellows, too.”
— from Fix Bay'nets: The Regiment in the Hills by George Manville Fenn

He took the same degree later at both the English universities.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Sort of—ah—what you might call stomach—ah—although cook says it can't have been anything she ate last—” “ By the way, what made you think I was ill?” “Well,—since you ask, sir,—you do look a bit seedy, sir,—that is to say pale and—” “I wish to see Mrs. Carstairs alone.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

Our copies are certainly not signed, which, in itself, proves little or nothing, but Mary’s contemporary defenders, Lesley and Blackwood, urge that there was not even a pretence that the Letters were signed, and this plea of theirs was not answered.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang