If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service, look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so; being, perhaps, for aught I see, two-and-thirty, a pip out?
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The king was in a flaming fury, and launched out his challenge and epithets with a most royal vigor.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

She passed away as on a dark wind, far, far away, into the pristine darkness of paradise, into the original immortality.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Every one seemed in a great hurry; they ran, they flew, fell into each other's arms, holding fast for a moment as long as they could stand safely.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The following feminines are declined like turris , with -im or -em in the accusative, and -ī or -e in the ablative: clāvis , key febris , fever nāvis , vessel puppis , stern sēmentis , planting strigilis , skin-scraper So also in the oblique cases, Liger , the Liger .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In vain I revolved in my brain a multitude of absurd expedients for procuring light—such expedients precisely as a man in the perturbed sleep occasioned by opium would be apt to fall upon for a similar purpose—each and all of which appear by turns to the dreamer the most reasonable and the most preposterous of conceptions, just as the reasoning or imaginative faculties flicker, alternately, one above the other.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The captain soon came to advise us to go on deck for fresh air.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

And when at the height of my youth I was driving the tandem of prose and poetry at a furious rate, Loken's unstinted appreciation kept my energies from flagging for a moment.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

At last a rain came, and upon a sudden all their Houses appeared of a flaming Fire; and the more Water there was poured on them, the more they did flame and burn; which struck such a Fright and Terror into all the Neighbouring Cities, Nations and Kingdoms, that for fear the like should happen to them, they and all the rest of the parts of that World, granted the Empress's desire, and submitted to the Monarch and sovereign of her Native Countrey, the King of Esfi; save one, which having seldom or never any rain, but onely dews, which would soon be spent in a great fire, slighted her Power: The Empress being desirous to make it stoop as well as the rest, knew that every year it was watered by a flowing Tide, which lasted some Weeks; and although their Houses stood high from the ground, yet they were built upon Supporters which were fixt into the ground.
— from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

I never caught one glimpse of his face, for all the time that he stood there it was in shadow.
— from Dead Men's Money by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

A wide future smiles before him, His heart will beat for fame, And he will learn to breathe with love The music of a name, Writ on the tablets of his heart
— from Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The hardships and dangers of the voyage and the reports of suffering from famine and disease kept most people from going to the New World.
— from Introductory American History by Henry Eldridge Bourne

Sir George, 353 Eugene of Savoy, 143 Euripides, his mother an herb-woman, 45 ; note; his lost plays, 45 ; quotation from, 50 51 ; attacked for the immorality of one of his verses, 51 ; note; his mythology, 75 Quintilian's admiration of him, 141 Milton's, 217 ; emendation of a passage of, 381 ; note; his characteristics, 352 Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, 135 ; want of union in, to arrest the designs of Lewis XIX., 35 ; the distractions of, suspended for a short time by the treaty of Nimeguen, 60 ; its progress during the last seven centuries, 307 Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimen of her style from, 315 310 Evelyn, 31 48 Evils, natural and national, 158 Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in closing it, 53 Exclusiveness of the Greeks, 411 412 ; of the Romans, 413 410 F. Fable (a), of Pilpay, 188 Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to terminate the civil war, 491 Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the bill of attainder against Strafford, 400 ; his character as a politician, 483 ; at the head of the constitutional Royalists, 474 Family Compact (the), between France and Spain, 138 29 Fanaticism, not altogether evil, 64 Faust, 303 Favorites, royal, always odious, 38 Female Quixote (the), 319 Fenelon, the nature of and standard of morality in his Telemachus, 359 Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catholicism, 329 Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, 488 Fictions, literary, 267 Fidelity, touching instance of, in the Sepoys towards Clive, 210 Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, 201 ; case from his "Amelia," analogous to Addison's treatment of Steele, 370 ; quotation from, illustrative of the effect of Garrick's acting, 332 Filieaja Vincenzio, 300 Finance, Southev's theory of, 150 - 155 Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., 450 ; tied to Holland, 409 Fine Arts (the), encouragement of, in Italy, in the 14 th century, 277 ; causes of their decline in England after the civil war, 157 ; government should promote them, 184 Fletcher, the dramatist, 350 308 352 Fletcher, of Saltona, 388 389 Fleury, 170 172 Florence, 63 64 ; difference between a soldier of, and one belonging to a standing army, 61 ; state of, in the 14 th century, 276 -277; its History, by Maehiavelli, 317 ; compared with Edinburgh, 340 Fluxions, 324 Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, 282 ; his mimicry, 305 ; his inferiority to Garrick, 306 Forde, Colonel, 256 259 Forms of government, 412 413 Fox, the family of, 414 415 Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, 224 229 415 ; directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 235 ; applied to by Bute to manage the House of Commons, 43 44 ; his private and public qualities, 45 ; became leader of the House of Commons, 46 ; obtains his promised peerage, 54 ; his unpopularity, 417 Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

1205 Burns, the poet, when in Edinburgh one day, recognized an old farmer friend, and courteously saluted him, and crossed the street to have a chat; some of his new Edinburgh friends gave him a gentle rebuke, to which he replied:—"It was not the old great-coat, the scone bonnet, that I spoke to, but the man that was in them."
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

Throughout the summer the entire length of our local streams where the water is fresh and not salt or brackish; the finest fish and greatest number between Cantley and Coldham Hall, on the Yare; large numbers also in the dyke leading from Oulton Broad.
— from The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by G. Christopher (George Christopher) Davies

The star where I had just witnessed four facts, analogous to four terrestrial facts, but inversely, did not appear to me to occupy its original position.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion