“Very well, then, go and get a sunstroke,” Monsieur de Cadour said; and he went back to the Hotel des Bains to lie down for an hour or two.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Not much use as far as the other world is concerned, but much, very much use, as concerns this; because there, if a man be rich, he is very greatly honored, and can become a legislator, a governor, a general, a senator, no matter how ignorant an ass he is--just as in our beloved Italy the nobles hold all the great places, even though sometimes they are born noble idiots.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Rosalie wore one of her purple robes, and I can see her now as I shut my eyes, as glowing and gorgeous as some of those unrivaled masterpieces in the Pitti Palace.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

If there are times when we are awed and charmed by "All the beauty of the world" let us remember that what we see is only a type of the grandeur and glory and splendor He will put in our spirit-nature if we but permit Him to sanctify us and cast out the storms and tempests.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

This gives a great Author something like a Prospect of Eternity, but at the same time deprives him of those other Advantages which Artists meet with.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And since Mrs. Jervis is so good a gentlewoman, and so kind to you, I am the easier a great deal, and so is your mother; and we hope you will hide nothing from her, and take her counsel in every thing.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He glides and goes; and still the dudgeon sticks from his left lapelle.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There he growled and groaned and shot forth flame in impotent fury; for though he remembered the gladness of those playfellows, and sought to harm them by tossing red-hot rocks upon the shore, yet the light sea ever laughed, and the radiant river found its way down from the copsewood to the waves.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

The woods have now retreated far back from the road, and at this season the grass and grain are so high that the stumps are all concealed.
— from Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony by Beavan, F. (Frederick), Mrs.

Ing o rgamént o , a gurgling, a gargarizing, a gulching, a swallowing.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

"But you will not care when those girls are gone away," said Margaret; "you are merely vexed because they are so rude."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

However, we helped him now and then, especially through the gaps and gateways; and so after a deal of floundering, some laughter, and a little swearing, we came all safe to the lower meadow, where most of our flock was hurdled.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Well, I should get a gun and shoot him."
— from Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

"Perfessor done say," he began, "dat if eber I seed him senselike, when he done gone and got a shock from de 'lectrisititeness, I was to gib him two spoons full ob dis."
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

I rose to leave,—it was a splendid night, The rising moon shone beautifully bright, And pleased I dwelt upon my homeward walk, Which formed the subject of our passing talk; But as we parted at the garden-gate A groom appearing said, "The horses wait."
— from The Anglican Friar, and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook A Comic Legend by active 19th century Novice

Beside, you ought to think that you are not worthy of so great a good, and so you need not fear.
— from Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

How was it that superior men, like Aristeidês and Periklês, [703] acquired the eminent qualities essential for guiding and governing Athens, since they neither learned them under any known master, as they had studied music and gymnastics, nor could insure the same excellences to their sons, either through their own agency or through that of any master?
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote