The bridegroom here thus addresses the bride:— I grasp thy hand that I may gain good fortune, That thou may’st reach old age with me thy husband.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[Pg 31] Chapter V THE BEGINNINGS OF COFFEE IN FRANCE What French travelers did for coffee—The introduction of coffee by P. de la Roque into Marseilles in 1644—The first commercial importation of coffee from Egypt—The first French coffee house—Failure of the attempt by physicians of Marseilles to discredit coffee—Soliman Aga introduces coffee into Paris—Cabarets à caffè—Celebrated works on coffee by French writers W e are indebted to three great French travelers for much valuable knowledge about coffee; and these gallant gentlemen first fired the imagination of the French people in regard to the beverage that was destined to play so important a part in the French revolution.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“We cannot prove to the contrary, to be sure; but I wish you a better fate, Miss Price, than to be the wife of a man whose amiableness depends upon his own sermons; for though he may preach himself into a good-humour every Sunday, it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green geese from Monday morning till Saturday night.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“Good God!” from Babbitt, and from his wife a long wailing, “You've gone and—” “We got married last evening.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

[‘ gavelock ’] gaffetung f. scoffing, mocking , Æ. gafol (æ, ea 1 ; e, u 2 )
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I'll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

ye’ll live to see yer husband sold, or mebbe be sold yerself; and these yer boys, they’s to be sold, I s’pose, too, jest like as not, when dey gets good for somethin’; an’t no use in niggers havin’ nothin’!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

grimet- = grymet- grimful fierce, violent , ES 39·348.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, snigger, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle[obs3], gleek|!, gird, flout, fleer[obs3]; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque &c. 856; laugh to scorn &c. (contempt) 930; smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of[obs3]; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

An immense white mass could be seen covering the city-walls from the Blachernæ to the Golden Gate, from which four shining bands were seen to detach themselves and advance between the houses like four torrents of lava, increasing in volume and noise and leaving behind them a track of smoke and flame.
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

Under the allegory of the games which he proposed to celebrate, and the marble temple which he proposed to raise on the banks of the Mincio, he associates the thought of his early home with his ambition to rival the great works of Greek genius (for this seems to be the meaning of the lines Cuncta mihi, Alpheum linquens lucosque Molorchi, Cursibus et crudo decernet Graecia cestu) 345 ,— and to spread the fame of Caesar through distant ages.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

Women were always considered sufficiently clean to beg, work and give generously for the building and decoration of churches, and the support of the priesthood.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is in his chameleonship that his greatest good fortune lies.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

"I will tell you," said Gitchee Gauzinee, for that was his name, "our fathers have been wrong; they have buried too many things with the dead.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

Again a blush of wounded pride mounted to Herminie's brow, but it is impossible to describe the perfect courtesy and proud simplicity with which the girl replied: "Will you, madame, kindly reserve this generous gift for the many persons who must appeal to you for charity."
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

Therefore depict passion; you have one great resource open to you, foregone by the great genius for the sake of providing family reading for prudish England.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

"Let degenerate Irishmen, suborned by bargain with a Saxon Government, go forth to save it in the Division Lobby." (Mr. William O'Brien. )
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 by Various