"Bridge" includes especially good players of all ages; "dances," young married people, young girls, and dancing men.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

'Being that night at my orisons, as I still use to be, I saw of a sudden a great light in my cell and ere I could turn me to see what it might be, I beheld over against me a very fair youth with a stout cudgel in his hand, who took me by the gown and dragging me to my feet, gave me such a drubbing that he broke every bone in my body.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

the Heb. way or manner of life, business, occupation, Ja. 1.11: from Πορεύομαι , (mid. of πορεύω, to convey, transport, fr. πόρος ) f. εύσομαι, a. ἐπορεύθην, to go, pass from one place to another, Mat. 17.27; 18.12; to go away, depart, Mat. 24.1; 25.41.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Not without reason does he, in the character of an inquirer into the reasons of these surprising things, give it to be understood that they are done by that race of spirits which he previously described as if quoting other people's opinions,—spirits who deceive not, as he said, by nature, but by their own corruption, and who simulate gods and dead men, but not, as he said, demons, for demons they really are.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The doctrine was not confined to a sphere so narrow as France alone; it still nourished in Germany, and drew many converts in England.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

May thy name be abhorred For thy conduct to ladies, From London to England, From Seville to Cadiz; May thy cards be unlucky, Thy hands contain ne'er a King, seven, or ace When thou playest primera; When thy corns are cut May it be to the quick; When thy grinders are drawn May the roots of them stick.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Unstät treiben die Gedanken / Auf dem Meer der Leidenschaft —Unsteady is the course of thought on the sea of passion. Schiller.
— 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.

Should a living skeleton crawl into an Andean hut announcing he had not tasted food for a fortnight, had seven species of tropical fever, and had been bitten by a baker’s dozen of venomous serpents, the greeting would be the same motionless, indifferent grunt and drowsily mumbled “Vaya!” with which this female acknowledged my presence.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Old Glories of Portugal— Pombal the Infamous— Portugal and Napoleon— English Influence— Dom Pedro— Maria da Gloria and Dom Miguel— The Revolution of 1833—
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

In Texas, limber pine may be found in the Guadalupe and Davis Mountains of West Texas.
— from Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them by C. B. (Cyril Bertram) Webster

Here, amid groaning and dying men, I found my friend stretched in a cot with a blanket over him, his handsome face was very pale, and his eyes were closed when I approached.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

I could have gone and drowned myself in the river.
— from The Pot Boiler: A Comedy in Four Acts by Upton Sinclair

They'll retire me as a colonel or courtesy general and dump me into an England which doesn't care a hang about me with the remains of malaria, no digestion and no temper.
— from A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George

She was no longer the gentle and doting mother of a minute ago, but a creature of a fixed purpose and an iron resolution.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Colonel de Frontignac was a grave and dignified man of forty-five.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various