He, Hawberk, had negotiated for and secured the greave, and now the suit was complete.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But it is all for your own good, and not to spite my lady, though, to speak truth, I have little reason to love her; but—' 'You are not speaking thus of my aunt, I hope, Annette?' said Emily, gravely.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

[“For the arts of soldiery and generalship are not the same.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

i 3 n letter E. í 1 teasing exclamation over s.t. one might envy a person for. Í, bag-u man lagi tag tíbi, Hey, you’ve got a new TV set.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If he sells his goods at nearly the same price, he cannot have the same profit; and poverty and beggary at least, if not bankruptcy and ruin, will infallibly be his lot.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

My hero, thou wilt go; and none The stern commands of Fate may shun.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then Egil Ulserk set up the ten banners he had with him, and placed the men who carried them so that they should go as near the summit of the ridge as possible, and leaving a space between each of them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

If I choose, I won't go anywhere now to see any one.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

These winter streets, so gay at nights, ’tis said, Have ’ticed the wanton out.
— from Songs of the Army of the Night by Francis William Lauderdale Adams

If its little eyes fail to open and the batter takes on a greasy aspect, with a tendency to crawl and glide about, no time should be lost.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

as so many modern children do, but "How do you do, Mrs. Lessing," or "How do you do, Mrs. Green," and not to stare and fidget or be awkward.
— from We Three by Gouverneur Morris

At other times, when the descent is more gradual, and not too steep, and when there is not a sufficient quantity to pay the expense of a sluice-way, we fell a large tree, sometimes the Hemlock, trim out the top, and cut the largest limbs off a foot, more or less, from the trunk.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

The most different diseases, such as angina pectoris, stone in the bladder, and various affections of the skin, have appeared in successive generations at nearly the same age.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

“On page 234 he says of Mr. Sumner: ‘It seems to me, that, if he wished to write poetry, he would get a negro to sit for him.’
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

He may be so far gentle as not to scare; but he will have too much go-ahead in him to be safe with everybody.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

The present limits of the goviernos are not the same as those of the bishoprics.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt