He was strong, could drink a great deal of wine, but did not care about it; and when the men round him were drinking spirits, he took sugar and water, having a contemptuous pity even for the earliest stages of excitement from drink.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Thy dowerless daughter, King, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unpriz’d precious maid of me.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Drive in, that they did, but to drive out was beyond their science.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And this strong one is bound in each instance in which he is spoiled of one of his goods; and the abyss in which he is shut up is not at an end when those die who were alive when first he was shut up in it, but these have been succeeded, and shall to the end of the world be succeeded, by others born after them with a like hate of the Christians, and in the depth of whose blind hearts he is continually shut up as in an abyss.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He crept like a snail to a well in a field, and there he thought that he would rest and refresh himself with a cool draught of water, but in order that he might not injure the stones in sitting down, he laid them carefully by his side on the edge of the well.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

On Monday next the skin of the dead one will be hung up, in terrorem , at Button's Coffee-house."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Whereupon quoth Ambrogiuolo, 'Bernabo, I doubt not a whit but that thou thinkest to say sooth; but meseemeth thou hast paid little regard to the nature of things; for that, hadst thou taken heed thereunto, I deem thee not so dull of wit but thou wouldst have noted therein certain matters which had made thee speak more circumspectly on this subject.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

His sentiments were the same as the rest of the Lollards, or those who followed the doctrines of Wickliffe; but notwithstanding the innocence of his life, and the regularity of his manners, he was obliged to submit to papal revenge.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

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— from William Bradford of Plymouth by Albert Hale Plumb

England could only dispel the danger of war by destroying this false conception, i.e. , openly joining Russia and France.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

Hardly had he gone before a fresh message, and a far more dangerous one, was brought to Archias, sent by a namesake of his at Athens.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

I rejoice, as a moralist, at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

Stretched at length on a table, he had slept off the effects of his drunken fit, talked big, and found here a willing audience, a number of drinkers of whisky being collected in this place.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

To this, each thinking that it may be her turn speedily, if not now, they will in no wise consent, and have maltreated me as thou seest, and the dens of wild beasts are at this moment abodes of peace, compared to my seraglio.
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

Waking and sleeping, my head was filled with dreams of water, brooks, rivers, lakes of cool, fresh water, in which to bury one's face and drink.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

They must not vary even an infinitesimal degree or the whole delicate organism would be thrown out of adjustment.
— from Christopher and the Clockmakers by Sara Ware Bassett

Although the monks were early bakers, they do not appear to have fared much more sumptuously than the people on bread; for the Anglo-Saxon monks of the Abbey of St. Edmund, in the eighth century, ate barley bread, because the income of the establishment would not admit of the feeding twice or thrice a day on wheaten bread.
— from Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present by John Timbs