O cunning love, with tears thou keep’st me blind, Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The prisoners had each been informed that in the eyes of the different authorities whom they would meet on the road they would pass for foreigners, Swiss or Belgians, expelled on account of their political opinions, and that the police agents would keep their title of police agents, and would represent themselves as charged with reconducting these foreigners to the frontier.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

"What did you run for, fellow?" said Sancho.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[Clark, April 11, 1805] 11th of April Thursday 1805 Set out verry early I walked on Shore, Saw fresh bear tracks, one deer & 2 beaver killed this morning in the after part of the day killed two gees; Saw great numbers of Gees Brant & Mallard Some White Cranes Swan & guls, the plains begin to have a green appearance, the hills on either side are from 5 to 7 miles asunder and in maney places have been burnt, appearing at a distance of a redish brown choler, containing Pumic Stone & lava, Some of which rolin down to the base of those hills—In maney of those hills forming bluffs to the river we procieve Several Stratums of bituminious Substance which resembles Coal; thong Some of the pieces appear to be excellent Coal it resists the fire for Some time, and consumes without emiting much flaim.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The non-application of proper means, which we see in the brute creation, is caused by their being unrestrained, and by the females among them only being fit for sexual intercourse at certain seasons and no more, and by their intercourse not being preceded by thought of any kind.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

This was so successful that he rashly plunged into a second in the same breath, after a few false starts:— I sow′-ed th′-e … I sow′-ed … I sow′-ed th′-e seeds′ of′ love′, I-it was′ all′ i′-in the′-e spring′, I-in A′-pril′, Ma′-ay, a′-nd sun′-ny′ June′,
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

At one time there was a sudden pressure from behind, and then Mr. Pickwick was jerked forward for several yards, with a degree of speed and elasticity highly inconsistent with the general gravity of his demeanour; at another moment there was a request to ‘keep back’ from the front, and then the butt-end of a musket was either dropped upon Mr. Pickwick’s toe, to remind him of the demand, or thrust into his chest, to insure its being complied with.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The relation between a medical man and his patient is one in which the probability of undue influence is inferred; |139| and so in dealings with their patients the acts of physicians are watched with great jealousy; not because the Court blames and discountenances the influence flowing from such relation, but because it holds that this influence should be exerted for the benefit of the person subject to it, and not for the advantage of the person possessing it ( 370 ).
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

He has one adopted daughter, a foundling, found somewhere near Stratford-on-Avon.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

The vulgar, the street boy, have evolved one of those strange sayings that have the air of being fragments from some lost and forgotten chant: "She's the Army Contractor's Only Daughter, Spending it now."
— from What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In a tone not wholly free from superciliousness, Miss Cutler said: “Can you play a waltz or polka, Miss Clyde?
— from Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes

Violet came in free, for she had picked out a good hiding-place.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's by Laura Lee Hope

In December, 1779, he embarked with a large force for South Carolina, and, after overcoming numerous difficulties, he captured Charlestown, for which he received the thanks of parliament.
— from Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars Containing an Account of the Origin of the Regiment in 1690, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1842 by Richard Cannon