Cherokee gûnĭ , “arrow”), while the name of the great eagle, Shadaʼgea, may, according to the same authority, be rendered “Cloud-dweller.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Pr. {pg 124} Glänzendes Elend —Shining misery.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

G. Elliot Smith , M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy, University of London.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Only everything in the world will seem to be going ever so many thousand times slower than it ever went before.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Another pause, during which Maggie looked steadily out of the window, till by a great effort she moved her head to look down at Minny's back again, and said,– "I wish Lucy had not been obliged to go out.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

You grow exceeding strange; must it be so?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Here was a grove, equally sacred, mentioned by [573] Livy, and others; where the antient Latines used to hold their chief assemblies.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

“Good exercise,” said Mr Halgrove.
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

"Do mention his kind grey eyes," says my wife.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

Either tennis or cricket may be good for both soul and body, though the latter game exacts so much time that it is only exceptionally within the priest's reach.
— from The Priestly Vocation A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy by Bernard Ward

Dean Swift, the greatest English satirist, may be taken up first, his life, his work and his influence.
— from The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. by Caroline French Benton

“Good enough,” said Matthews.
— from The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones

After practising for several years as a country doctor, our great embryo surgeon moved to the city of Montgomery and began to devote himself more exclusively to operative surgery, the branch in which his talents so palpably ran.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

"Four millions are a good excuse," said Mrs. Meeker, with a sigh.
— from The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton