Parties in religion and politics make sufficient discoveries concerning each other, to give a sober man a proper caution against them all.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Everything being settled at the inn, the ladies discharged their former guides, and Sophia made a present to the landlord, partly to repair the bruise which he had received under herself, and partly on account of what he had suffered under the hands of her enraged waiting-woman.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Women disbelieve that Pasiphäe, a king's wife, 72 was enamoured of a bull, although they see some of their sex despising grave and sober men, and preferring to associate with men who are the slaves of intemperance and pleasure, and like dogs and he-goats.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

They were about to leave her, Sybil in infinite distress, when a lady driving herself in a pony carriage, with a couple of grooms behind her mounted also on ponies of the same form and colour, came up from the direction of the Moor, and observing the group and Sybil much agitated, pulled up and enquired the cause.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The impaled man wriggled awkwardly to his feet,—for I was giving him time,—and with a grin and shrug made a pitiful attempt to treat the arrest as a pleasantry.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

And there seems reason in the idea, because when the priest of Taufers, who has an Olm there, goes and says mass and prays for the cattle, or when the Sterniwitz (landlord of the Stern), who has acres of pasturage and many heads of cattle at Jagdhaus, pays a Capuchin to go thither and pray, the murrain ceases."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

“My father was a guide,” the girl answered, slowly, making a pause at each word, and picking her way with difficulty through the insidious pit-falls of British pronunciation.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

Each man was given a straw mattress, a pillow and two blankets.
— from Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly by Russell Anthony Kelly

The parson took me up into the gallery and showed me a picture of John the Baptist's head, just off, with Herodias trying to pull out its tongue.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

In my youth I had sat many a quiet hour there in the darkening gloom and shot many a pigeon, therefore I knew the wood well, and was able to watch the tenant of Rannoch from points where he least suspected the presence of another.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

Schaaf, who entered the hallway in advance of the professor, responded to my greeting in his customary gruff, almost suspicious manner, and passed on, turning down the collar of his overcoat.
— from Tales from Bohemia by Robert Neilson Stephens

It is all very well for you to go about shrieking menace and pretending you're going to exterminate the human race.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

I was in another room, my friend's wife was sobbing hysterically on a lounge, and he was gripping and shaking me and pointing a pistol at my head.
— from Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly