Those were days of utter freedom from care.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

The next thing one heard was that it had been intended to declare Keiki a rebel if he did not withdraw his troops from Ozaka, Kiôto and other points between the two cities, and that Satsuma, Geishiû, Chôshiû and Tosa were charged with the duty of using force to compel obedience if he refused to listen to the advice offered to him by Echizen and Owari in the first place.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

BOOK V. ARGUMENT THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES FROM CALYPSO Pallas in a council of the gods complains of the detention of Ulysses in the Island of Calypso: whereupon Mercury is sent to command his removal.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

To such a degree of unrestrained frankness had he now accustomed me, that in the course of this evening I talked of the numerous reflections which had been thrown out against him on account of his having accepted a pension from his present Majesty.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I would be friends with you, and have your love, Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with, Supply your present wants, and take no doit Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me: This is kind I offer.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Hark, what our privy says to the skiters: Shittard, Squirtard, Crackard, Turdous, Thy bung Hath flung Some dung On us: Filthard, Cackard, Stinkard, St. Antony’s fire seize on thy toane (bone?), If thy Dirty Dounby Thou do not wipe, ere thou be gone.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

If monstrous forms of this kind ever do appear in a state of nature and are capable of reproduction (which is not always the case), as they occur rarely and singly, their preservation would depend on unusually favourable circumstances.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Καταπᾰτέω, ῶ, ( κατά & πατέω ) f. ήσω, to trample upon, tread down or under feet, Mat. 5.13; 7.6 Lu. 8.5; 12.1; met. to treat with contumely, spurn, He. 10.29.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

§ 3 Mrs. Golden’s demand of Una for herself had never been obvious till it clashed with Walter’s demand.
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

This man had a look in his eyes like that of an animal that has been hunted to death, and is fain to lie down and give itself up to its pursuers in the despair of utter fatigue.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

[110] In the disputation between Neid and Fercertue which was to decide which of them should be Árd Ollamh (Chief Doctor) of Ulster, Fercertue put the riddling question, ‘What is it that thou traversest in haste?’
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

I still found him true to the ideals which had clarified themselves to both of us as the duty of unswerving fealty to the real thing in whatever we did.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Four miles brought us to the top of the bluff of a deep gulf; we turned our course northward for two miles, when darkness overtook us, forcing us to encamp.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

Dimly I can recollect her sudden gusts of temper, and his instant dismissal of us from the room when they began.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

For they interpreted Christ’s fulfilling of the law for us, to be a discharging of us from any obligation and duty the law required of us, instead of the condemnation of the law for sins past, upon faith and repentance: and that now it was no sin to do that which before it was a sin to commit; the slavish fear of the law being taken off by Christ, and all things good that man did, if he did but do them with the mind and persuasion that it was so.
— from A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn

"We got a telegram from Bennet saying he was drawing on us for two thousand pounds."
— from The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn by Robert Machray