And see to what a length the malice and spite they bear me go, when they seek to deprive me of the happiness it would give me to see my lady in her own proper form.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In fine weather he generally manages to get through the time pretty well, but on rainy days, of which we have had a good many of late, it is quite painful to witness his ennui.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Tertullian records that this was done by his fellow-Christians at Carthage in the second century; the disciples of St. Columba worshipped him as an embodiment of Christ; and in the eighth century Elipandus of Toledo spoke of Christ as “a god among gods,” meaning that all believers were gods just as truly as Jesus himself.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Ay, ay; money's a good egg; and if you 've got money to leave behind you, lay it in a warm nest.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"They gave me two," replied the page; "but just as when one quits a religious community before making profession, they strip him of the dress of the order and give him back his own clothes, so did my masters return me mine; for as soon as the business on which they came to court was finished, they went home and took back the liveries they had given merely for show."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respectable, and upon several occasions, gained very considerable advantages over the Roman armies.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

} See, where on high the moving masses, piled By the wind, break in groups grotesque and wild, Present strange shapes to view; Oft flares a pallid flash from out their shrouds, As though some air-born giant 'mid the clouds Sudden his falchion drew.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

gusto m taste; pleasure;
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

AND then Sir Marhaus rode unto his shield, and saw how it was defouled, and said, Of this despite I am a part avenged, but for her love that gave me this white shield I shall wear thee, and hang mine where thou wast; and so he hanged it about his neck.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Simon the witch was of this religion too; for he would have had the Holy Ghost, that he might have got money therewith; and his sentence from Peter's mouth was according.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

It grieves me to the heart that his attack is so severe that I fear all within the reach of human skill is vain."
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

An extensive Compendium of Manufacturers' Announcements is also given, in which the most reliable and approved Building Materials, Goods, Machines, Tools, and Appliances are described and illustrated, with addresses of the makers, etc.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

M. D. I give medicine to living creatures within my reach, and can see the effects, though no cure follows; you pretend to charm the clouds, which are so far above us that your medicines never reach them.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Then applying himself to the eunuch, My good friend, continued he, pray do not himder this young lord to grant me the favour I ask; do not put that piece of mortification on me; rather do me the honour to walk in along with him; and, by so doing, you will give the world to know, that, though your outside is brown like a chesnut, your inside is as white as his.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

A pleasant-looking man, with an appearance which the vulgar characterise as “jolly,” and with hearty manners, gave me the following account as to the character of his customers.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

I asked him to get me tea.
— from A Traveller in Little Things by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Grant me to receive them as I ought!
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In short, these aggravating lads They tickle my tastes, they feed my fads, They give me this and they give me that,
— from Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

The English did not torture their foes, but they generally massacred them without mercy.
— from King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott