The flatterer lives at the expense of those who will listen to him.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Tales of sights and sounds, strange and terrible, connected with the huge black tombs, were a very great security to the grounds about them, for few of the slaves felt like approaching them even in the day time.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Mightily pleased with this happy day’s newes, and the more, because confirmed by Sir Daniel Harvy, who was in the whole fight with the Generall, and tells me that there appear but thirty-six in all of the Dutch fleete left at the end of the voyage when they run home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And he loved her again, for she was a passing fair lady, and that espied Sir Tristram well.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But here the cord was not more than ten fathoms long, and the extremity was attached to a small barrel which, by floating, was to show the course the dugong took under the water.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

When I hear that the freedom of the will, the hope of a future life, and the existence of God have been overthrown by the arguments of some able writer, I feel a strong desire to read his book; for I expect that he will add to my knowledge and impart greater clearness and distinctness to my views by the argumentative power shown in his writings.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Swet and Basanta grew up fine lads, and the elder was in due time married.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Thou Sun, said I, faire Light, And thou enlight’nd Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye Hills and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and Plaines,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

You have a thorough knowledge of the law, you are very honest and just, you respect marriage and family life, and the effect of all that is that all your life you have not done one kind action, that every one hates you, that you are on bad terms with every one, and the seven years that you have been married you’ve only lived seven months with your wife.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

she replied, "Nothing is far to God; nor was it to be feared lest at the end of the world, He should not recognise whence He were to raise me up."
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

What is certain is that he has come to stand for literature and to embody New York in it as no one else does.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

They ruled a belt of fertile land around the equator of their world—the rest was icy waste.
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson

—From long association, this epithet strikes me as conveying a semi-ludicrous idea.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

To have persisted in so gross a falsehood, after it was known to them, was not only to encounter, for life, all the evils which man could inflict, from without, but to endure also the pangs of inward and conscious guilt, with no hope of future peace, no testimony of a good conscience, no expectation of honour or esteem among men, no hope of happiness in this life, or in the world to come. § 31.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

The founder lived about the end of the sixteenth century.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

[AT] They do not find in inorganic matter sufficient cause to account for life, and their expectations are restricted accordingly.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

You must live of course, my dear Hals," he continued, "because you are a genius and help to fill this ugly grey world with your magnificent works, but why should your wife and family live at the expense of your manhood."
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Nail these firmly on each end an inch below the top of the box, and to them fasten the platform, which is made of planed stuff ten feet long, and to each end of which a batten is nailed as well as a short additional carling in the middle, projecting from the side of the box.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

The Chinaman, however, although less agile, was of heavier build, and by sheer strength and weight he began to haul Forrester along the bridge towards the further ledge, at the end of which his colleague and the negrito guards were already massing.
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

But between Roger and her there was little in common: he was not, and never had been, accessible to her influence; he regarded her, indeed, with all the open-hearted affection of cousinly intercourse, but for the rest, thought her much too clever for him, and far less attractive than either Henrietta or Jessie.
— from Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge