Great men have always scorn'd great recompenses: Epaminondas saved his Thebes, and died, Not leaving even his funeral expenses: George Washington had thanks and nought beside,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

She goes round everywhere; she has made a great number of acquaintances.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

Dr. Johnson’s ‘general remark ,’ etc. See his Life of Milton ( Works , Oxford ed., vii.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

Great men have always scorned great recompenses: Epaminondas saved his Thebes, and died, Not leaving even his funeral expenses:
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The girl rose erect, set her teeth, and turned her face aside, and looked out at the little window on the decaying light.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

When the lady of the house's husband gets rich enough she hires a house-keeper to engage, discharge, train, and manage the housemaids.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The strange thing was that out of the work which seemed both to myself and others to mark the abandonment of any foolish hopes of novel-writing I might have cherished as a girl, Robert Elsmere should have arisen.
— from A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

We, too, pushed on, and, ascending the rock on one side of the pass with difficulty, saw our game resting evidently sick, having made his way across a ravine.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

He was not without much difficulty dissuaded from this by his nobles, who represented the temerity of the enterprise, and its incompetency to any good result, even should he succeed, with the small force of which he was master.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott