When I went to school the master whipped me regular every day because he said if I wasn’t in mischief just then I was plotting it.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I keep generally buoyant spirits, write often as there comes any lull in physical sufferings, get in the sun and down to the river whenever I can, retain fair appetite, assimilation and digestion, sensibilities acute as ever, the strength and volition of my right arm good, eyesight dimming, but brain normal, and retain my heart's and soul's unmitigated faith not only in their own original literary plans, but in the essential bulk of American humanity east and west, north and south, city and country, through thick and thin, to the last.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

It struck the bottom of the guitar and pierced it through and through; Rykov dodged and thus escaped death, but he was frightened; with a cry of “Yagers!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

E s'ella d'elefanti e di balene non si pente, chi guarda sottilmente, piu` giusta e piu` discreta la ne tene; che' dove l'argomento de la mente s'aggiugne al mal volere e
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Pope describes the houses as "opposite each other, in Russell-street, Covent Garden," where Addison established Daniel Button, in a new house, about 1712; and his fame, after the production of Cato , drew many of the Whigs thither.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Concerning this theory, it may be said that the earliest descriptions, both written and pictorial, which have been discovered of the reptilian monsters around which grew the germs of our dragon-myths, are crocodiles or serpents, and not dragons of any conventional kind,—with a few doubtful exceptions.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But Hippolyte, not daring to use such a handsome leg every day, begged Madame Bovary to get him another more convenient one.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Now, e'en the tear which sorrow wrings From loving eyes destruction brings.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It is only necessary here to supplement them with a brief statement, and to some extent a recapitulation, of the processes by which degraded deities are preserved to continue through a structural development and fulfil a necessary part in every theological scheme which includes the conception of an eternal difference between good and evil.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

As every statement like that which I am called upon by your Lordship to make is, of necessity, tinctured with egotism, I gladly quit that part of the task which relates to my own personal interests, and proceed to show that the change which I claim is equally demanded by the public service.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

This essential difference between their two characters had prevented any real intimacy between the two women.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

" He had a vague vision of some day repaying his enormous debt by assisting this girl, grown tired of her Hamdi, out of this aperture and into a waiting boat.
— from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

But if time is lacking, or when the Rosary is said in common with others, one should at least at every decade briefly put the mystery before the mind.
— from The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Math Josef Frings

In 1843, the orange-trees of the Azores or Western Islands were nearly entirely destroyed by the Coccus Hesperidum; and in Fayal, an island which had usually exported twelve thousand chests of oranges annually, not one was exported.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan

Collins was bewildered among their magical seductions; and Dr. Johnson was enthusiastically delighted by the old Spanish folio romance of "Felixmarte of Hircania," and similar works.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

In some of the stories I have already given a paper obtained from a conjurer in the way of charm was considered very effective to undo the witch’s evil doings; but from the following story, which I obtained from David Pugh, Erwlwyd, it seems that it was necessary in some cases to bury this bit of paper in the ground.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

It was a solid stone building, with every door bolted and barred, and every window lined with rifles.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Edward Parrott

To approve a relationship so derogatory to the women involved, and so subversive to one of the most sacred safeguards of society, showed too little fineness of moral feeling and sureness of moral conviction; while to be so easily duped by the dissolute prince was no more creditable to his perspicacity than thinking such an affair could be kept secret to his sagacity.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh