His chops watered at it; he longed earnestly for it.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

thou know’st not gold’s effect: Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough; For I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

It was a hateful fate—but how escape from it?
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

—Naval battle between Villeneuve and Sir Robert Calder, which saves England from invasion.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

And so to dinner to Trinity House, and thence by his coach towards White Hall; but there being a stop at the Savoy, we ‘light and took water, and my Lord Sandwich being out of town, we parted there, all the way having good discourse, and in short I find him the most ingenuous person I ever found in my life, and am happy in his acquaintance and my interest in him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Mary and Kitty have been very kind, and would have shared in every fatigue, I am sure, but I did not think it right for either of them.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It is not enough for the assembled people to have once fixed the constitution of the State by giving its sanction to a body of law; it is not enough for it to have set up a perpetual government, or provided once for all for the election of magistrates.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For although in the character the will has already taken its definite and unchangeable bent or direction, in accordance with which volition, when occasioned by the presence of a motive, invariably takes place, yet error can falsify its expressions, for it introduces illusive motives that take the place of the real ones which they resemble; 37 as, for example, when superstition forces on a man imaginary motives which impel him to a course of action directly opposed
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Explorateurs Français, illustré par Edy Segrand.”
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was either destroyed or disorganized by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabitants were secure from the general trouble and spoliation.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

Whereupon everyone feels it his duty to take Portia at once back to the house, less Mr. Browne, by any ill-luck, should commit himself still further.
— from Portia; Or, By Passions Rocked by Duchess

Ah, dog!" cried Pedro, his eyes glaring with the malignity of a demon, and raising his bloody weapon to hew down Bertrand du Guesclin, for no other was the prisoner, who stood with folded arms, his dark eyes fixed in calm scorn on the King's face, and his sword and axe lying at his feet.
— from The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Here the rotting timbers of some old mine-head buildings and great mounds of thrown-up earth inked against the sky-line showed that man had been in these wilds, torn up the earth for its treasure, and passed on.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

In the consummation of a policy originating at an early period, and steadily pursued by every Administration within the present century--so just to the States and so generous to the Indians--the Executive feels it has a right to expect the cooperation of Congress and of all good and disinterested men.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson

But while each function is limited by its own separate line of objects, while the function of the eye serves only for the perception of the visible, the hand for the tangible, while walking finds an object in the space it crosses, thought, on the other hand, has everything for its object.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

They packed just enough food in their saddle bags to carry them through the day, intending to eat their meals in the saddle.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake by Frank Gee Patchin

The Sir Williams being unwilling to eat flesh, [In Lent, of which the observance, intermitted for nineteen years, was now reviving.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The ideal drawing-room has a real fireplace, with a wood fire when there is excuse for it.
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe