Thou gettest none other grace, said Sir Phelot, and therefore help thyself an thou canst.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

aut enim nēmō, aut sī quisquam, ille sapiēns fuit , L. 9, for either nobody or, if anybody, that was a wise man . sī ēveniet, gaudēbimus: sīn secus, patiēmur , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Orata , Gaius Sergius Silus, praetor (97), iii , 67 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The wretched field-slaves, after toiling all the day for an unfeeling owner, who gives them but little victuals, steal sometimes a few moments from rest or refreshment to gather some small portion of grass, according as their time will admit.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

“You aren't to see what we're going to do till it's done; it's a glorious surprise,” said Phyllis.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"The hour draws on; the destinies ordain, 245 My godlike son shall press the Phrygian plain: Already on the verge of death he stands, His life is owed to fierce Patroclus' hands, What passions in a parent's breast debate!
— from The Iliad by Homer

A record of prisoners entered in its secret prison, during six months of 1593, shows thirteen belonging to the German ship San Pedro, seventeen to the Flemish ship La Rosa, and fifteen to the Flemish ship El Leon Colorado, besides a dozen English sailors whose vessel is not specified.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

In the hill-country of Berkshire, Massachusetts, where I generally spend some part of the summer among my friends the Sedgwicks, there is a line of scenery, forming part of the Gr
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[doubtfully] to the crows of Weymar, where we have certainly no Chanceaux, but pretty well of gens sots [stupid people]
— from Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Franz Liszt