His favour sent on great and small Should ever save and prosper all.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

"Now, I give you fair warning," shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke, "either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

These glorious achievements were carefully recorded in the public acts of the empire; and that he might omit no circumstance of infamy, he received from the common fund of gladiators a stipend so exorbitant that it became a new and most ignominious tax upon the Roman people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

That any annual addition which, it can reasonably be supposed, is made either to the plate or to the coin of the kingdom, could require but a very small annual importation of gold and silver, seems evident enough; and though we had no direct trade with Portugal,
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“Then he had better go and sleep somewhere else; I am not going to put myself out for him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Chapter 10 There was no way of getting into or out of the top garden at San Salvatore except through the two glass doors, unfortunately side by side, of the dining-room and the hall.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The sight of them set Jurgis to thinking again of the man's sarcastic remark; and half involuntarily he found himself watching the cars—with the result that he gave a sudden startled exclamation, and stopped short in his tracks.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I cannot too much muse Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing, Although they want the use of tongue, a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Well then, senor,” returned Sancho, “I say that for some days past I have been considering how little is got or gained by going in search of these adventures that your worship seeks in these wilds and cross-roads, where, even if the most perilous are victoriously achieved, there is no one to see or know of them, and so they must be left untold for ever, to the loss of your worship’s object and the credit they deserve; therefore it seems to me it would be better (saving your worship’s better judgment) if we were to go and serve some emperor or other great prince who may have some war on hand, in whose service your worship may prove the worth of your person, your great might, and greater understanding, on perceiving which the lord in whose service we may be will perforce have to reward us, each according to his merits; and there you will not be at a loss for some one to set down your achievements in writing so as to preserve their memory for ever.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Pemberton retreated towards Vicksburg, closely followed by Grant, and several short engagements between the two armies took place on the road to Vicksburg.
— from Battles of the Civil War by Thomas Elbert Vineyard

I think she has not chosen badly as regards Miss Beatrice Gresham; and should she even add Frank Gresham to the number—" "Friends!
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Mr. O'Brallaghan replies that he does, and that if Mr. Jinks were present, he would exterminate that gentleman, as some small exhibition of the state of his feelings at being thus insulted by the worst and most hard-hearted of her sex.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Tyrol, meanwhile, was parcelled out between Bavaria, Illyria, and the Kingdom of Italy; but bullets and partitions were of no avail against the staunch patriotism of her people, and the Tyrolese campaign boded ill for Napoleon if monarchs, generals, and statesmen should ever be inspired by the sturdy faith and hardihood of that noble peasantry.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

“But I will be as obstinate as she can be,” thought the glover, “and she shall either marry Henry Smith without farther delay or old Simon Glover will know an excellent reason to the contrary.”
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

She, like the other women, had a glance, and shy, sweet expression in the eye; the men have a steady gaze.
— from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

"Gee, I was afraid you were going to say he couldn't go, and so spoil everything.
— from Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance; Or, The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler

Her shape was good, a slender shape, endued with nervous strength.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

Like Bishop Barnes in England wanting to analyse the Consecrated Host, Edison was reported in America as having said that he would find out if there was a soul by some scientific test: Any philosophic Chinaman would know what to think of a man who said, "I have got a new gun that will shoot a hole through your memory of last Monday," or "I have got a saw sharp enough to cut up the cube root of 666," or "I will boil your affection for Aunt Susan until it is quite liquid."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward