Played a little at cards with him and his daughter, who is grown every day a finer and finer lady, and so home to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When Zeno learned that the only ship he had left was with all its freight lost at sea, he said, "Fortune, you deal kindly with me, confining me to my threadbare cloak and the life of a philosopher."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

A little Spite is natural to a great Beauty: and it is ordinary to snap up a disagreeable Fellow lest another should have him.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

His house, his home, his heritage, his lands, The laughing dames in whom he did delight, Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands, Might shake the saintship of an anchorite, And long had fed his youthful appetite; His goblets brimmed with every costly wine, And all that mote to luxury invite, Without a sigh he left to cross the brine, And traverse Paynim shores, and pass earth's central line.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In 1708 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel, a seat he exchanged in 1710 for Malmesbury, which place he continued to represent till his death.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

He seizes the nearest sleeper, crushes his "bone case" with a bite, tears him limb from limb, and swallows him.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Pray as for your life.” Arthur stopped—from exhaustion, Tom thought; but what between his fear lest Arthur should hurt himself, his awe, and his longing for him to go on, he couldn't ask, or stir to help him.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Scorned by which tribute the Ciconian dames, Amid their awful Bacchanalian rites And midnight revellings, tore him limb from limb, And strewed his fragments over the wide fields.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

At the office all the morning, and there pleased with the little pretty Deptford woman I have wished for long, and she hath occasion given her to come again to me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She quite understood the difficulties of that forest land, and she had no desire for the men-folk to spend the night roaming the wilderness.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

Florence laughed and stroked her sister’s hair.
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

We waited under arms, looking as we stood there under the star-light drawn up over the whole field, like a spectral host.
— from Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 by John Lockwood

No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him.
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

My trusty Gulam comes, however, at length with fire, 269 for Lobsang and Sedik have found some brushwood.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

There is none of the wild glamour of conquest about him, but there is a more abiding reputation for a far more intricate work; for, like another statesman, he could make a small town a great city—and with the minimum of expense.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

She seemed to me to see her way clearly, and to have as few troubling doubts in respect to the future life as she had to the imminent end of the present.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This fog makes me feel like a smoky house.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

" This, I believe, is the entire quotation from Charleston speech, as Judge Douglas made it his comments are as follows: "Yes, here you find men who hurrah for Lincoln, and say he is right when he discards all distinction between races, or when he declares that he discards the doctrine that there is such a thing as a superior and inferior race; and Abolitionists are required and expected to vote for Mr. Lincoln because he goes for the equality of races, holding that in the Declaration of Independence the white man and negro were declared equal, and endowed by divine law with equality.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln