Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis —Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest.
— 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.

All my fastidiousness would suddenly, for no rhyme or reason, vanish.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As I walked to the station, and as I sat in the train, I laughed for no reason and people thought me drunk.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He gone, I to the office, and there late, very busy doing much business, and then home to supper and talk, and then scold with my wife for not reckoning well the times that her musique master hath been with her, but setting down more than I am sure, and did convince her, they had been with her, and in an ill humour of anger with her to bed. 6th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Run here or there, thou wilt find no rest, but in humble subjection to the government of a superior.
— 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.

She went to a baker's shop and asked for Nicolas Ravolati.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A good heart is open to this impression, and feels no reluctance, but on the contrary a pleasure, in thinking man the subject of his government, and the object of his care.
— from Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies. by John Robison

There were fighter pilots, the pilots, gunners and observers of torpedo and scout dive bombers, and the squadron leaders of each group, accompanied by the particular vice-admiral in command of the force now racing across the Pacific.
— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

The reader to whom religious utterance makes little appeal will not suppose that his imaginative words stand for no real experience.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

It appeared that the Allies had landed enormous masses of stores at this port in far Northern Russia; and now that the Russians had dropped out of the war, the Germans were threatening to take possession.
— from Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

Between her and Silence Withers, Myrtle Hazard found no rest for her soul.
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In addition to this, I had a severe headache from the weight of the coronet I wore, and, feeling nearly ready to faint, I went to one of the balconies, when, perceiving some steps leading to a vast loggia , I hastily descended, and almost ran to seat myself on a stone bench at the end of the terrace which overlooked a part of the garden more retired and obscure
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

[14] The Earl of Sussex, after inspecting the preparations for defence in Hampshire towards the end of 1587, writes to the Council that he had found nothing ready.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

Her father never read anything except the "Perfect Cook," and could not guide her in the choice of books, and Masha, after having dipped into works of various kinds, had naturally given her preference to romances.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

For no religious house would admit this unfriended and suspicious creature into its pure community.
— from The End of the Middle Ages: Essays and Questions in History by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

Not beneath the cypress shade of disappointment, but to enjoy in her own land, and under her own vine, the sweet of her labors, and the reward of her toil.—In this situation, may she never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine