"Oh, go on, go on; let's see, there's Clémence and Marie Tellec and Cosette and Fifine, Colette, Marie Verdier—" "All of whom are charming, most charming, but I never was serious—" "So help me, Moses," said Elliott, solemnly, "each and every one of those named have separately and in turn torn your heart with anguish and have also made me lose my place at Julian's in this same manner; each and every one, separately and in turn.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But no one who makes the least pretence of being a person of education says: kep for kept, genelmun or gempmun or laydee, vawde-vil, or eye-talian.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Corinth, i. 326 ; ii. 5 , 21 , 38 , 53 , 58 -61, 63 -66, 77 , 129 , 208 , 209 , 309 , 347 ; iii. 287 . ——, isthmus of, i. 85 , 256 , 406 , 497 ; ii. 49 , 79 , 80 . ——, Gulf of ( Gulf of Lepanto ), i. 85 , 186 , 187 , 496 ; ii. 2 , 4 -6, 25 , 63 , 79 , 105 , 158 , 159 , 192 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The barrel of the firearm glittered, giving out gleams of light. Renardet gazed at it for some time with the uneasy glance of a drunken man.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But grant, oh grant, our loss we may retrieve; A favour you, and you alone can give.'
— from The Odyssey by Homer

It is marvellous that he can produce such effects by such simple means: a mere enumeration of particulars will often do it, as here: ­ No gray old grange or lonely fold, Or low morass and whispering reed, Or simple style from mead to mead, Or sheep walk up the windy wold.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

His tools, however, being books, it is called Saraswati pūja, or worship to the goddess or god of learning, who is either Saraswati or Hayagriva.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

"If you assist us at this crisis," said the "Appeal," "I hereby pledge my honor, my life, my property and all I possess as the representative of this (the Mormon) people to stand ready at your call, and that the whole body of the people will act as one man in the land to which we are going, and should our territory be invaded we hold ourselves ready to enter the field of battle, and then like our patriot fathers * * * make the battlefield our grave or gain our liberty."
— from The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

G o g o láre, as G o ng o láre.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Thou knowest whether I seek my welfare or Thy glory, O God of liberty!
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

At certain stages these are changed, and another escort is given, of greater or less numerical strength according to the state of the country to be traversed.
— from Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

[446] in nuggets or grains of greater or less magnitude.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Besides the last verses of the Gospel of St. Mark already alluded to, and no less than three hundred and sixty-four other omissions in the same Gospel of greater or less moment, the doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer, in Matthew vi. 13, is wanting; as also the description of the agony of the Saviour and the help of the angel in Luke xxii.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

King Charles I was engaged in the game of Golf on Leith links when, in November, 1641, a letter was handed to him which gave the first news of the Rebellion in Ireland.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

“All this solemnity, as I have told, began to the glory of God our Lord, the Virgin Mary, and All Saints, for the promotion of the said work.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

Bemis , with perfectly recovered gaiety: ‘Go on, go on, Lawton.
— from The Garotters by William Dean Howells