With his father's might Pyrrhus presses on; nor guards nor barriers can hold out.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

What, hath your grace no better company? EDGAR.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Five weeks ago, when they kissed the hand of Majesty, the mode he took got nothing but censure; and then his 'sincere attachment,' how was it scornfully whiffed aside!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I grudge nothing but care and trouble, and endeavour nothing so much, as to be careless and at ease.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

198 “We may admire ourselves, conscript fathers, as much as we please; still, neither by numbers did we vanquish the Spaniards, nor by bodily strength the Gauls, nor by cunning the Carthaginians, nor through the arts the Greeks, nor, in fine, by the inborn and native good sense of this our nation, and this our race and soil, the Italians and Latins themselves; but through our devotion and our religious feeling, and this, the sole true wisdom, the having perceived that all things are regulated and governed by the providence of the immortal Gods, have we subdued all races and nations.”—
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

If you should go near Barnard Castle, there is good ale at the King’s Head.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

So the best food was cooked for poor Hansel, but Grettel got nothing but crab-shells.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Not questioning but these Particulars will be very welcome to you, I congratulate you upon them, and am your most dutiful Son, &c.' The Father of the young Gentleman upon the Perusal of the Letter found it contained great News, but could not guess what it was.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She would have liked to tell Miss Remson the good news but courtesy forbade the doing.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Junior by Josephine Chase

That she was of a most noble and royal extract by her father will not fall into question, for on that side was disembogued into her veins, by a confluency of blood, the very abstract of all the greatest houses in Christendom: and remarkable it is, considering that violent desertion of the Royal House of the Britons by the intrusion of the Saxons, and afterwards by the conquest of the Normans, that, through vicissitude of times, and after a discontinuance almost of a thousand years, the sceptre should fall again and be brought back into the old regal line and true current of the British blood, in the person of her renowned grandfather, King Henry VII., together with whatsoever the German, Norman, Burgundian, Castilian, and French achievements, with their intermarriages, which eight hundred years had acquired, could add of glory thereunto.
— from Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta Regalia; Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favourites by Paul Hentzner

[1] (202) 745-1908 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, Providence, San Francisco Guernsey none (British crown dependency)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But can it be imagined, had the Gentiles now been concerned with this sabbath by law divine, that so holy a man as Nehemiah would have let them escape without a rebuke for so notorious a transgression thereof; especially considering, that now also they were upon God's ground, to wit, within and without the walls of Jerusalem.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

When I was goin' to bed he'd say, ‘McHenry, Your Dog is goin' now, but can't Your Dog sleep here?’
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

This feeling assures my mind that I ought not to shrink from any avowal of truth which I may in justice to this generous nation be called upon to make, and nothing less than my child's safety shall keep me from making a disclosure of the unmerited and most incomparable wicked conduct manifested towards me.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 1 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

'A blind old man like you,' says I, 'ain't got no business chasin' around alone.
— from Flower of the Dusk by Myrtle Reed