“They wanted my gold pieces.” “Rascals!” said the Fox.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

± cynd (usu.+) nf. nature , ‘ kind ,’ (‘ i-cunde ’) property, quality , Bl, Gu, Met : character , Bo : gender , Ph : (+) race, species , Bl, Bo, El : (+) 70 origin, generation, birth , + Hy : (+) offspring : (+) ‘ genitalia ,’ Æ. + cyndbōc f. book of Genesis .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Mrs. Sparsit gave him a look of the darkest scorn, and said with great politeness, ‘Really, sir?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

There was a general burst of laughter, plentifully accented with whistlings and cat-calls, but the energetic use of the gavel presently restored something like order.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The girl Prudent (Rosalie), servant at the Varambots', of Nantes, having become enceinte without the knowledge of her masters, had, during the night, killed and buried her child in the garden.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The mistake of empiricists—among which Kant is in this respect to be numbered—which enabled them to disregard this difficulty, was that they admitted, beside rational thinking, another instinctive kind of wisdom by which men could live, a wisdom the Englishmen called experience and the Germans practical reason, spirit, or will.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But at Argos Nicostratus and Phayllus were great political rivals: so when King Philip visited that city, Phayllus thought if he prostituted his wife, who was very handsome, to the King, he would get from him some important office or place.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

They who, while making great promises, refuse small favours, show that they are very tenacious of giving.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

He was an excellent linguist, and there were French papers and German papers, Russian, Scandinavian—all kinds of strange languages and strange little broadsheets, badly printed, black with excessive ink, or pale with imperfect impression, on the floor and the table.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Governor Post returned, saying to his wife: “Come, my dear, I have found Miss Stuart and a friend.
— from The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane

"Do you know, I'm going to get pretty rich, so that I can do what I want for a bit.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The General politely requested shelter for the night, and a bedroom and the parlour were placed at his disposal; not very enthusiastically, indeed, but that was only natural.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

"If look good, pick," Redbird said, using the little English White Bear had taught her.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

He found a great projecting rock, shaped like a chair, and took his seat here.
— from Sweet Rocket by Mary Johnston

And still, on grounds political, religious, social, trivial, the disaffection grew.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins