» Escrita la precedente carta, [83-5] el insigne jurisconsulto pasó a la cocina, donde su mujer estaba haciendo calceta y cuidando el puchero, y díjole las siguientes expresiones en tono muy áspero 15 y desabrido, después de echarle en la falda las ocho monedas de a cuatro duros que ya conocemos: —Encarnación, [83-6] ahí tienes: compra más trigo, que va a subir en los meses mayores, [83-7] y procura que lo midan bien.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

And if he is supposed to act from contentiousness, the court shall fix a time during which he shall not be allowed to institute or plead a cause; and if he is supposed to act as he does from love of money, in case he be a stranger, he shall leave the country, and never return under penalty of death; but if he be a citizen, he shall die, because he is a lover of money, in whatever manner gained; and equally, if he be judged to have acted more than once from contentiousness, he shall die.
— from Laws by Plato

Whoso, then, having the power, doth that which pertaineth unto him, doth well; but folk should not so much marvel thereat nor exalt him to such a height with supreme praise as it would behove them do with another, of whom, for lack of means, less were required.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

At Olympia and elsewhere he was worshipped under the surname of Thunderbolt; and at Athens there was a sacrificial hearth of Lightning Zeus on the city wall, where some priestly officials watched for lightning over Mount Parnes at certain seasons of the year.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

284 Such were the witching words that came From lips of many a peerless dame Crowding the palace roofs to greet The hero as he gained the street.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Come; can't I tempt you?” Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough to try it on, for love or money.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Notwithstanding, it is added in the said description, that by conjectural symetry of those parts the body to be twenty-eight feet long, or more.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

"That fine shepherd and scholar Chrysostome died this morning," answered the other; "and they say it was for love of Marcella, daughter of William the rich, that goes up and down the country in the habit of a shepherdess."
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

when his young ones cry unto God, wandering for lack of meat.'
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Caucasum, vel quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes.' I was in some degree like a French lady of my acquaintance, who had so general a notion of the East, that upon taking leave of her, she enjoined me to get acquainted with a friend of hers, living, as she said, quelque part dans les Indes , and whom, to my astonishment, I found residing at the Cape of Good Hope!
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

II Comes Reverence, her features Amazed to see high Wisdom hear, With glimmer of a faunish leer, One mock her pride of creatures.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

But I will go and see him, and make him a wig for love or money that will take twenty years off his age."
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

Nel qual il padre previsto il suo fatalcorso gia molti anni avanti infinito tesoro posto havea, et quello per il carico fracassato, la occulta moneta scoperse."
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

"Yes, but not for lack of money," Hollister replied.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair