Soon after the introduction of the coffee drink into the New England, New York, and Pennsylvania colonies, trading began in the raw product.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The conqueror henceforth compelled the Athenians to send to him every nine years a tribute of seven youths and seven maidens of the noblest families of the land, who became the prey of the Minotaur, a monster, half-man, half-bull, whose lair was in the wonderful labyrinth, constructed by Dædalus for the Cretan king.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

A leader appearing in the person of the young brave whom we have named, the people rose under his direction and killed every Nicotani, young and old.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

No y′ m exist = No y′ are m =
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Lade nicht alles in ein Schiff —Embark not your all in one venture.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

" Diomed looked sternly at him and answered, "Think not, Dolon, for all the good information you have given us, that you shall escape now you are in our hands, for if we ransom you or let you go, you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy, but if I kill you and an end of you, you will give no more trouble.
— from The Iliad by Homer

EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Employ not your ascendancy over me in persuading me to take a step, at which I should hereafter have to blush.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Did John ever neglect you, as you call it, while you made it a point to give him your society of an evening, his only leisure time?
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But I must request you to avoid associating with your new friends, especially now you are somewhat depressed in spirits, or they may bring you over to take to their religion, which would be, as I have often told you, a most prodigious affliction to your father and myself."
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

"I know they would," Abe agreed, "but you take some of these Senators and Congressmen which they started out before we was at war with Germany to show an attractive line of pro-German ideas—that is to say, attractive to their regular customers out in Wisconsin and Saint Louis, understand me, and people don't figure that them poor fellers has got mortgages falling due on 'em next year and boys to put through college.
— from Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History Mary Queen of Scots BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1904 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Harper & Brothers , In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.
— from Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Queen Elizabeth Makers of History Queen Elizabeth BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1901 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by Harper & Brothers , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
— from Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

How I have loved, you know; how yet I love, My only comfort is, I know myself: I love you more, even now you are unkind, Then when you loved me most; so well, so truly I'll never strive against it; but die pleased, To think you once were mine.
— from All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy by John Dryden

CO. SEE Abbott New York Digest, Consolidated Edition NEW YORK ANNUAL DIGEST, 1943.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

‘Not half enough, nor yet a quarter,’ cried Lane, with a bellicose air, not unmixed with swagger.
— from Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray