But two Englishmen will probably go each to a different window, and remain in obstinate silence.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

They are great sailors, and are in the habit of giving escorts to any one who reaches their coasts.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

A well-regulated Commerce is not, like Law, Physick or Divinity, to be overstocked with Hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by Multitudes, and gives Employment to all its Professors.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress; to the harp they sung Soft amorous ditties, and in dance came on: The men, though grave, eyed them; and let their eyes Rove without rein; till, in the amorous net Fast caught, they liked; and each his liking chose; And now of love they treat, till the evening-star, Love's harbinger, appeared; then, all in heat They light the nuptial torch, and bid invoke Hymen, then first to marriage rites invoked: With feast and musick all the tents resound.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

She gave Edna the address, regretting that she would not consent to stay and spend the remainder of the afternoon, and pay a visit to Mademoiselle Reisz some other day.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the centre of the city grew ever taller and larger.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed, And shall become you well, to entreat your captain To soft and gentle speech.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Like the nature and divisions of dialectic, of which Glaucon impatiently demands to be informed, perhaps he would have said that the explanation could not be given except to a disciple of the previous sciences.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I was glad enough to agree.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Andresen points out that the reason for all popular explanations is the consciousness of language which struggles against allowing any name to be an empty sound, and still more, strives to give each term a separate meaning and an indubitable intelligibility.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He ran through the whole castle, searched every room, in the garden every tree and bush, but no trace of the toad.
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin

This indignity greatly enraged the animal.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

[061] That part of the account, that has been hitherto given, extends to all the Europeans and their colonists, who are concerned in this horrid practice.
— from An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Thomas Clarkson

"Nothing, Huzoor ," he replied glibly enough, though a quick observer might have seen the muscles of his brown throat labouring over the syllables.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel

“She came over here and got exposed to a duke, and she had never been vaccinated, and the first her father knew she caught the duke, and came; home, and he followed her.
— from Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

But the necessary means of giving effect to any policy failed them.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

In 1719, Geoffroy endeavoured to ascertain the relative attractive powers of bodies for each other, and to arrange them, under the form of a table, in an order in which these forces, which he named affinities, were expressed.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

The dead specimens give employment to a number of workers who are under the command of the man of learning.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

The studies also made by great artists for their own use, should be sought after with the greatest eagerness; they are often to be bought cheap; and in connection with the mechanical copies, would become very precious: tracings from frescos and other large works are also of great value; for though a tracing is liable to just as many mistakes as a copy, the mistakes in a tracing are of one kind only, which may be allowed for, but the mistakes of a common copyist are of all conceivable kinds: finally, engravings, in so far as they convey certain facts about the pictures, without pretending adequately to represent or give an idea of the pictures, are often serviceable and valuable.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

The pale sherry, carried in a pocket–flask, and sipped out of a little silver tumbler––there is apt to be a warm flatness about sherry taken out of pocket–flasks that is scarcely agreeable to the connoisseur––was like nectar newly brewed for the gods; even the anchovies in the sandwiches were like the enchanted fish in the Arabian story.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon