The puzzle is to reverse their order, so that they shall read, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., in the opposite direction, with the vacant disc left in the same position as at present.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
Fair brother, said Dame Lionesse, I understand well that the knight is good, and come he is of a noble house.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
In fact, my dear Lizzie, I may say it was the first fuck that thoroughly realised my, or rather our, anticipations of the act.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
To right, to left, the dexterous lance I wield, And bear thick battle on my sounding shield But open be our fight, and bold each blow; I steal no conquest from a noble foe.
— from The Iliad by Homer
With hurried deference, Luise Ivanovna fell to curtsying in all directions, and so curtsied herself to the door.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Il n'y a plus vraiment de langue indispensable, mais seulement les langues personnelles des utilisateurs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
A few days later I found the mayor and Mr. McGillen in the office of the General Managers' Association.
— from The Pullman Boycott: A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns
She laid her beautiful slender hands upon his shoulders, and said, kindly, "Dear lad, if after six months you are still so insane as to covet an elderly bride, we will discuss the matter again.
— from Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
Slavery robbed them of their lands half a century ago, and roughly shouldered them off into the mountain wilderness dowered with the pauperizing maxims of oppression, notably the indignity of toil, and their shrewd native mother-wit has been left to rust to dullard loss in the absence of schools worthy the name; worse still, their natural devoutness has been warped by unworthy shepherds, till superstition, bigotry, and gross immorality have taken fierce possession of many a society, hearthstone and heart.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various
We have already had occasion to note that the “exchange of the castle,” in Domesday language, is an abbreviation for the exchange of the site of the castle.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage
of John Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq., and dying, left issue by his wife, 1. Hester Byam, m. 7 Aug. 1781, Anthony Munton, d. s. p.; 2. Mary-Gunthorpe Byam, born 9 Nov. 1748, m. in 1771, to Col. William Dundas, brother to Lord Viscount Melville; 3. Anne Byam, living at Pear Tree Lodge, near Southampton, unm.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan
When de fall insec's is singin' in de grass an' the 'simmons is gettin' soft an' de leaves is beginnin' to turn, I jes natcherly has ter go.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
I remember standing at the outer door listening in vain for some sound within; I remember seeing my revolver and writing-case on the table in the outer room; I remember nerving myself to push open the inner door, but I remember no more.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel
I know that the ungodly of the present day accuse—though without any foundation whatever—our holy religion of inciting souls to abhor the things of this world, to despise or to contemn nature, perhaps to fear it also, as if there were in it something diabolical, placing all their affections on what these ungodly call the monstrous egotism of divine love, for it is herself, they say, the soul loves in loving God; I know, too, that this is not the case; that the divine love is charity, and that to love God is to love all things, for all things are in God, in a supreme and ineffable manner.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera
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