The lord settled the disputes of the peasants, or good humouredly told various curious stories to his guests, or found amusement in their tales and jests.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It was particularly devoted to the God of fire; and is hence styled Vulcania by the Poet: [79] Sumnmis Vulcania surgit Lemnos aquis.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

You’ve gone on far ahead, I won’t catch up with you.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Also, in another series of rites and spells, he magically assists the plant in sprouting, in budding, in bursting into leaf, in climbing, in forming the rich garlands of foliage, and in producing the edible tubers.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.
— 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.

“You going out for anything?” inquired Amory of the elder brother.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

And look on these thy brethren, how goodly and great are they, Wouldst thou have the maidens mock them, when this pain hath passed away And they sit at the feast hereafter, that they feared the deadly stroke? Let us do our day’s work deftly for the praise and glory of folk; And if the Norns will have it that the Volsung kin shall fail, Yet I know of the deed that dies not, and the name that shall ever avail.’”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

“You are welcome to the ride,” said the good fellow, “but I would advise you not to get on the mule till we are outside the city, and to pass through the gate on foot as if you were one of the drivers.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Yes, you know, Anisim, I made a wager, you know, like an Englishman, that I would go on foot and I …” The perspiration came out on his forehead.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

complete the gallery of five, and it may well be said of them that if they had played more often in the test matches of last season no one would have been surprised.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

They can be traced or paralleled in the trees, the bushes, grasses, or flowers, as if extracted from them by a secret alchemy.
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

Albinia, who, among the girlhood of Fairmead and its neighbourhood, had been so acceptable a playmate, that her marriage had caused the outcry that ‘there would never be any fun again without Miss Ferrars,’ came out on the lawn with the girls, in hopes of setting them to enjoy themselves.
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And the old weather-beaten capital, which remains full of majesties, which still flutters with pennants, which in the evening is one yellow flame and red glow of fireworks and illumination, seems all the same, without the newly-married couple, to have lost the attraction which turned it into a centre of festivity and splendour and imperial ceremony; and in the evening, despite the illuminations and fireworks and gala-performances, the Central Station is besieged by thousands who are leaving....
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS Or First Appearance in Photo Dramas.
— from Wyn's Camping Days; Or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe

The heir to the Spanish throne, Charles, grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, would be emperor of Germany, ruler of the Netherlands, King of Aragon, Castile, Granada and Andalusia, and sovereign of all the Spanish discoveries in the West; and no one knew how far they might extend.
— from Days of the Discoverers by Louise Lamprey

So considering with myself that my executors might possibly not carry out my instructions if I gave orders for an inscription over my body, in opposition to that of my lamented wife, I therefore caused these words to be cut in my lifetime, beneath my wife’s inscription, over the place where my body will in due time be laid: Enjoy the present, For when the spirit has left the body, Descending to Lethe, It will never again look on the world above.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

but, seeing arrangements going on for attack in our rear, he continued his work of preparation to receive it.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet