It consists of three parts, severally called Cyprianus, [ 283 ] Dr. Faust , and Jacob Ramel .
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The use to which Alaric applied his new command, distinguishes the firm and judicious character of his policy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

His left wing for a Jack Daw.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Lord of the world, of mighty fame, Faithful and just, admit my claim, And grant this single boon to free My soul from fear, to one like me.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Idris could not endure to leave him in this state; nor was it right either to quit or take with us a young family for a journey of this description.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this?
— from Apology by Plato

You come home from a journey, and find—what?—my Lord Steyne supping at your house in Curzon Street with Mrs. Crawley.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Digging a little near it, he found another jar also filled with gold mohurs.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

And as no immediate business required Mr Allworthy's presence in the country, and little preparation is necessary to men for a journey, they set out the very next day, and arrived in town that evening, when Mr Jones, as we have seen, was diverting himself with Partridge at the play.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Santis followed me to the back of the inn, and then assuming a pleasant smile he told me that he had put the ring into his friend’s pocket for a joke, but that I should have it back at Paris.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The two workmen, pleasant of mood, ready for a joke, not altogether averse to helping if this proved to be “the right guy,” halted and stepped into the road just to look the poor noble car over.
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

"That is a very fair assumption," Jack admitted.
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

Great-hearted Puss Russell, who came frequently to inquire, was quieted before her friend, and the frank and jesting tongue was silent in that presence.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Her future mother-in-law, Abigail, a famous New England woman whose authority over her turbulent husband, the second President, was hardly so great as that which she exercised over her son, the sixth to be, was troubled by the fear that Louisa might not be made of stuff stern enough, or brought up in conditions severe enough, to suit a New England climate, or to make an efficient wife for her paragon son, and Abigail was right on that point, as on most others where sound judgment was involved; but sound judgment is sometimes a source of weakness rather than of force, and John Quincy already had reason to think that his mother held sound judgments on the subject of daughters-in-law which human nature, since the fall of Eve, made Adams helpless to realize.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

many a day that has had a rosy morn, sweet with the breath of flowers and jocund with the voice of birds, has been dark with clouds and flashing angry lightnings ere noon.
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

Third Estate, the , at outbreak of the Revolution, i. 101; constitution of, 108; assumes to represent the nation, 108; forces a junction with the two upper Estates, 108; Sieyès's pamphlet on the, 107; N.'s care for, iv. 258 , 261 .
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Now no one had ever heard of such a thing on any day but Friday, and Jessie Robertson and Teenie Johnstone nudged each other.
— from 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

According to the T̤abaqāt, Elliot, v, 366, what the Mīrzā said was “Where are the elephants?” ↑ 89 The word for ‘face-guard’ is pīsh-rūy (front-face), and Jahāngīr makes his father pun upon the word, saying, “It has loosed (opened) my front-face.”
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

Smith stared, the flag fluttered, and Jones chuckled.
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

Dorry hung his on one side of the fireplace, and John hers exactly opposite.
— from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge