After filling his mouth with household bread, stale, he at once began: “How are you going down to Robin Hill?
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

—If the secret sorrows of every one could be read on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would become objects of pity!
— 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.

Mr. Andrews is honored in India for his many services to his adopted land. 29-2: "The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindus say, 'traveling the path of existence through thousands of births' . . .
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

[2] The Rana first attached the ligature round the arm of the youngest, apparently an oversight, though in fact from superior affection for his mother.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

(Your mother's ancestry was so distinguished, her personal beauty and nobility of character were such that it would be hard to find her match among women.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Everybody ran to see to what end these unusual preparations were made; when Ninachetuen, with a manly but displeased countenance, set forth how much he had obliged the Portuguese nation, and with how unspotted fidelity he had carried himself in his charge; that having so often, sword in hand, manifested in the behalf of others, that honour was much more dear to him than life, he was not to abandon the concern of it for himself: that fortune denying him all means of opposing the affront designed to be put upon him, his courage at least enjoined him to free himself from the sense of it, and not to serve for a fable to the people, nor for a triumph to men less deserving than himself; which having said he leaped into the fire.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace; and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Volumed and fast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland’s war, As down the hill they broke; Nor martial shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march; their tread alone At times one warning trumpet blown, At times a stifled hum, Told England, from his mountain-throne King James did rushing come.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I find her motionless, lying on her back like a person wrapped in profound and undisturbed slumber.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I forgot how many years.
— from Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough

"You know, my dear son," he wrote to Frederic, "that we are the only king in Europe that is sought for by friend and foe for his mediation.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He therefore, for himself, meant to demand that the Catholic religion should be restored to its complete and exclusive superiority, and certain towns in England were to be made over to be garrisoned by Spanish troops as securities for Elizabeth's good behaviour.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

It was this—in his second book, Diodorus, quoting from Hecatæus, mentions that in an island, not less in size than Sicily, and opposite to Celtica, there existed among the Hyperboreans a circular temple magnificently adorned.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

But that done, the Old Englander becomes the New Englander; starts from his matured vantage-ground on a fresh career, and displaces the American Red-man by the American White-Man, the free product of the great past and the great present.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

But when a being is thus the object of mixed and implicitly contradictory feelings, he may be said to occupy a position of unstable equilibrium.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

That evening when her husband, the Brahman's son, had finished his meal, too excited almost to eat, and had gone to the golden bed in the bed-chamber strewn with flowers, he said to himself: "To-night I shall surely know who this beautiful lady is in the palace with the seven wings.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

If she had been metamorphosed, she would have been taken from him more than a year ago.
— from Bad Memory by Patrick Fahy

"I forgot," he muttered.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand

" Peter was soe sure and confident upon himselfe, that yf all the world should haue forsaken Christ, he would not, and therefore because he [Pg 33] stoode soe much vpon himselfe it was expedient that suche a swollen bladder should be prickt, as he was till he denied and forswore his master; And even this withdrawing of grace was a kind of grace, that seing his owne weaknes he might possesse his soule in humility, with[out] which there is noe grace to be expected.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham