'Tis such fools as you That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Our guest was in such spirits on the way home that I could do nothing but listen to him and wonder at him; nor was I alone in this, for Ada yielded to the same fascination.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Under the heading "Interesting Discovery" we read: "It has been lately found at York that in England laws are made; and that a law made in England is the law of England, and is enforced by another law; that many laws are made in Lower Canada and follow up, that is, follow after, or in other words are made since, other laws; and that these laws may be repealed.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And do not be afraid of my youth now, but while I am still in its flower, and Nicias appears fortunate, avail yourselves to the utmost of the services of us both.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

For another year they had covered the spring, and this time when they looked the water was clear and sparkling.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

‘Your tears fall faster as you talk of happiness,’ said Nicholas, ‘and you shun the contemplation of that dark future which must be laden with so much misery to you.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Phœbus slays him, and institutes the Pythian games as a memorial of the event, in which the conquerors are crowned with beech; for as yet the laurel does not exist, into which Daphne is changed soon after, while flying from Phœbus.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Put the enclosed, with my thanks, into your own pocket, as a slight compensation for all your trouble.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For a year Tom Foster lived in the banker's stable and then lost his place there.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The great clock of a church in the neighbouring street had just begun to strike five of a wintry afternoon, dark with snow, falling and yet to fall: how often in after years was he not to hear the ghostly call of that clock, and see that falling snow!—when a gentle tap came to his door, and the girl I have already mentioned came in with a tray and the materials for his most welcomed meal, coffee with bread and butter.
— from Salted with Fire by George MacDonald

"Better not try it, Jack," cautioned Rand, "for if you eat as fast as you talk or talk as fast as you eat you will either starve yourself or choke."
— from The Boy Scouts Patrol by Ralph Victor

And the eyewitness who thus graphically [353] relates what he knew of that great morning adds with the simplicity of a truthful nature, “he saw and believed”—believed then for the first time; for as yet they had not seen the significance of certain scriptures which now seemed plainly enough to point to this.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

That was an elegant programme he fired at you there; what's this it was, again?—oh, yes, 'when it's stiff climbin', keep your powder dry'—somethin' like that, wasn't it?"
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

Or you may remember your soul's peaceful trust in God, as you stood alone , with no sympathizing kindred; and felt, as you tasted the cup,—the emblem of your Saviour's blood, and the pledge of the eternal sacrifice of yourself to him,—that you could cheerfully forsake brother and sister, father and mother, all, for Christ.
— from The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) Clark

Speaking of his election to the Academie Francaise, which he reckoned to be near, he explained to Eve that it would mean six thousand francs a year to him, since he would be a member of the Dictionary committee; and then there was the Perpetual Secretaryship, which, falling to him naturally, would raise his emoluments to more than double that amount.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

Be not so mad as to tell your friend all your thoughts.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

" O'Keefe thought that "tormentin' haste" in his position would be fatal and yet the streak of whimsey that ran through him brought a paradoxical answer.
— from A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck