Thus, his Ganges bath in the early morning gives him an appetite; he kisses the cow-tails, and that removes it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But I do not see that he hath any command over the seamen, he being affronted by three or four seamen before my very face, which he took sillily, methought; and is not able to do so much good as a good boatswain in this business.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

{29} It is to the development, identification, and general prevalence of that fervid comradeship, (the adhesive love, at least rivaling the amative love hitherto possessing imaginative literature, if not going beyond it,) that I look for the counterbalance and offset of our materialistic and vulgar American democracy, and for the spiritualization thereof.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The glass blew in, the fire blew out, The blast was hard and harder.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Instead of keeping close to me and trying to oust me from the slit, the curate had gone back into the scullery.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I didn't want to go back there—it would seem like going back into the chill and dreariness of the old life again.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Stones were made to be hewn, and to construct castles—therefore my lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged.
— from Candide by Voltaire

[199] record this fact; and these statements are further borne out by the data given below in the discussion of the physiological effects of caffein, to which the majority of the stimulating effects of coffee may be attributed.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I had never been deceived before; and I felt not only grieved at parting—as I supposed forever—with my grandmother, but indignant that a trick had been played upon me in a matter so serious.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

but he don't show till 2 a.m. and he was all lit up like the City of Benton Harbor and of course the guard nailed him and he got called up before his captain and he busted him and I don't mean he cracked him in the jaw but when a man gets busted in the army it means you get reduced to a private.
— from Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer by Ring Lardner

John Burns, president of the Local Government Board in the Liberal Cabinet of Premier Campbell-Bannerman, has been for many years the principal representative of labor unionism in the British House of Commons.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

I should as much think of setting up the painted likeness of a deceased friend or dearer relative as a sign to a pot-house for the Saracen's head, as I would give his suit of clothes, at least in the shape in which he left them, to a mumper that should go begging in them.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

“‘I will do so,’ said Glam; ‘but is there any trouble at your place?’
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

I love it—selfishly, if you like—for the joy of giving, but I think that my fortune is not very badly placed in my hands.
— from L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 3 by Ludovic Halévy

And when he was come to Rome, all his relations revolted to him; not out of their good-will to him, but out of their hatred to Archelaus; though indeed they were most of all desirous of gaining their liberty, and to be put under a Roman governor; but if there were too great an opposition made to that, they thought Antipas preferable to Archelaus, and so joined with him, in order to procure the kingdom for him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Wall, their extra good meal had sot up Josiah and Bizer to a wonderful extent (they had drunk coffee too strong for 'em by half, and I knew it), and them two men wanted to go back into the Cairo Street.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

Walking through the palace with Jason he noted a great beam in the roof.
— from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

Fussed me so I turned around and was going back into the store.
— from Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd by Samuel Merwin