He may not tend a garden, or show himself in public, or enter the village or go on the street.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

To her, almost certainly, are due all those working traditions that cannot be found in books, especially those of education; it was she who first gave a child a stuffed stocking for being good or stood him in the corner for being naughty.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The only flaw was that the Glen Oriole sewers had insufficient outlet, so that waste remained in them, not very agreeably, while the Avonlea cesspool was a Waring septic tank.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Mrs. Bennet, all amazement, though flattered by having a guest of such high importance, received her with the utmost politeness.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He seated himself upon it, half his body in the dim and flickering light, and the other half in shadow; and so, with his craving eyes bent upon the slumbering boy, he kept his patient vigil there, heedless of the drift of time, and softly whetted his knife, and mumbled and chuckled; and in aspect and attitude he resembled nothing so much as a grizzly, monstrous spider, gloating over some hapless insect that lay bound and helpless in his web.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Let the princes shake off slumber, let shameless lethargy begone; let their spirits awake and warm to the work; each man's own right hand shall either give him to glory, or steep him in sluggard shame; and this night shall be either end or vengeance of our woes.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

And all replete I'd sit me down beside some guy in derby brown upon a lobby chair of plush, and murmur to him in a rush, “Hello, Bill, tell me, good old scout, how is your stock a-holdin' out?”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Mrs. Bennet all amazement, though flattered by having a guest of such high importance, received her with the utmost politeness.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

We may therefore reduce every military activity in the province of Strategy to the unit of single combats, and occupy ourselves with the object of these only; we shall get acquainted with these special objects by degrees as we come to speak of the causes which produce them; here we content ourselves with saying that every combat, great or small, has its own peculiar object in subordination to the main object.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Whether I go or stay here in hiding, the result will be the same for the city, but if I do not go I am dishonored for life.
— from The Island of Enchantment by Justus Miles Forman

Soon after Bahádur Sháh visited Cambay, and found that Malik Is-hák the governor of Sorath had, in the interests of the Portuguese, attempted to seize Diu but had been repulsed by the Gujarát admiral Mahmúd Áka.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

Plan of group of stone houses in Pangnirtung, Cumberland Sound.
— from The Central Eskimo Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670 by Franz Boas

"Mate, the perwisions is givin' out," says he, in a hoarse voice.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

“But,” added Sir Philip Tempest, “you may easily hear what particulars you wish to know respecting Mary Fitzgerald from the Englishman himself, if, as I suspect, he is no other than my neighbour and former acquaintance, Mr. Gisborne, of Skipford Hall, in the West Riding.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It is very true that their landed property, where they have managed to retain it from the iron grasp of speculation, has increased in value almost beyond calculation by the change; but they now refuse to 167 profit by selling.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet