Warner and some others welcomed Gerard and Morley, and ushered them, totally unprepared for such a reception, to an open carriage drawn by four white horses that was awaiting them.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of his behaviour to Wickham; and therefore gave them to understand, in as guarded a manner as she could, that by what she had heard from his relations in Kent, his actions were capable of a very different construction; and that his character was by no means so faulty, nor Wickham's so amiable, as they had been considered in Hertfordshire.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If he is given a microphone, and the feeling of having an audience (one that cannot write adverse fan mail), it will be easy for the average man to overestimate the effect of his own talk.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In the year thirty and six, buying a Dutch curtail, which was a middle-sized horse, both high and short, of a wool good enough and dyed in grain, as the goldsmiths assured me, although the notary put an &c. in it, I told really that I was not a clerk of so much learning as to snatch at the moon with my teeth; but, as for the butter-firkin where Vulcanian deeds and evidences were sealed, the rumour was, and the report thereof went current, that salt-beef will make one find the way to the wine without a candle, though it were hid in the bottom of a collier’s sack, and that with his drawers on he were mounted on a barbed horse furnished with a fronstal, and such arms, thighs, and leg-pieces as are requisite for the well frying and broiling of a swaggering sauciness.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

To-night her father gives a masquerade, and I will pretend I am Claudio, and tell her how Claudio loves her, and if she be pleased, I will go to her father and ask his consent to your union.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There's no great hurry, and I want to get as much as possible out of my studies.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

At-gangen , v. to go away, MD; atgo , MD, NED.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

She had something of her father’s jauntiness of gait and manner; and any female observer might detect a slight difference in the attire of the two sisters—that of Miss Jessie being about two pounds per annum more expensive than Miss Brown’s.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I started the game and made a few carroms.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

* * There was pity in her glance at me, and a fiery indignation at Aunt Katy at the same time; * *
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

After the Committee up, I and Sir W. Coventry walked an hour in the gallery, talking over many businesses, and he tells me that there are so many things concur to make him and his Fellow Commissioners unable to go through the King's work that he do despair of it, every body becoming an enemy to them in their retrenchments, and the King unstable, the debts great and the King's present occasions for money great and many and pressing, the bankers broke and every body keeping in their money, while the times are doubtful what will stand.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Ultimately these neolithics became owners of flocks and herds, usually of sheep and goats, and moved about from place to place in search of fresh pastures.
— from Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients by Charles Martyn

In the sacrifice, too, God and man are identified.
— from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews

In the fastness of 'Ain Qadîs the forces of Israel grew and matured, and a long series of legislative enactments organised it into a homogeneous whole.
— from Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

If he has a good ear he will say it gracefully, and musically; and I would by no means have him aim to say it barely or sparely.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

" On March 20th, 1782, to Mrs. Grastrell and Mrs. Aston: "When Dr. Falconer saw me, I was at home only by accident, for I lived much with Mrs. Thrale, and had all the care from her that she could take or could be taken.
— from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi

He dragged me out of the gutter and made a doctor of me.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

When the Capitol was burned in the Marsic war, eighty-two years before Christ, they perished in the flames: but so seriously was the loss regarded that ambassadors were sent to Greece, Asia Minor, and Cumæ, wherever Sibylline inspiration was supposed to exist, to collect the prophetic oracles, and thus make up as far as possible for what had been lost.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

I believe our mother laboured under a perpetual fear of spoiling Griff as the eldest, Clarence as the beauty, me as the invalid, Emily (two years younger) as the only girl, and Martyn as the after-thought, six years below our sister.
— from Chantry House by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge