If there we cherish love or hate, Or, in the spheres we dream of yonder, A High and Low our souls await.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Auntie felt that after that shout the box struck against something hard and left off swaying.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yes, said Aristophanes, who followed, the hiccough is gone; not, however, until I applied the sneezing; and I wonder whether the harmony of the body has a love of such noises and ticklings, for I no sooner applied the sneezing than I was cured.
— from Symposium by Plato

It comforts me for not being able to hire a lot of stupid undertaker's things for my poor child, and seeming as if I was trying to smuggle 'em out of this world with him, when of course I must break down in the attempt, and bring 'em all back again.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Blast , too, although in general vulgar use, may have had a like origin; so may the phrase, “I wish I may be SHOT , if,” &c. Blow me tight , is a very windy and common exclamation.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Cardan professeth he wrote his book, De Consolatione after his son's death, to comfort himself; so did Tully write of the same subject with like intent after his daughter's departure, if it be his at least, or some impostor's put out in his name, which Lipsius probably suspects.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The earth lay dark under a muffled sky and the air was so still that now and then he heard a lump of snow come thumping down from a tree far off on the edge of the wood-lot.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

This little circumstance affected me more than I can express; yet I endeavoured to rejoice at it, since neglect and indifference from him may be my best friends.-But, alas!-so suddenly, so abruptly to forfeit his attention!-to lose his friendship!-Oh, Sir, these thoughts pierced my soul!-scarce could I keep my seat; for not all my efforts could restrain the tears from trickling down my cheeks: however, as Lord Orville saw them not, for Sir Clement’s head was constantly between us, I tried to collect my spirits, and succeeded so far as to keep my place with decency, till Sir Clement took leave; and then, not daring to trust my eyes to meet those of Lord Orville, I retired.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

In the time of Baron Stott-Wartenheim we had a lot of soft-headed people running this Embassy.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

I'm not going to have a lot of society women find me on the door-step!" said Doré, for the benefit of the prop.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

Spotts had assumed an unconventional attitude at her feet, while the Quaker, face down, with hands and legs outspread, seemed to be trying to swim due north.
— from His Lordship's Leopard: A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells

He's trying to scare you with threats of the penitentiary into telling him a lot of stuff about the family.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

But civilisation possesses—and in that possession, indeed, civilisation largely consists—the precious traditions of past ages that can never live again, embodied in part in exquisite productions of varied beauty which are a continual joy and inspiration to mankind, and in part in slowly evolved habits and laws of social amenity, and reasonable freedom, and mutual independence, which under civilised conditions war, whether between nations or between classes, tends to destroy, and in so destroying to inflict a permanent loss in the material heirlooms of Mankind and a serious injury to the spiritual traditions of civilisation.
— from Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

They had a lot of singings They had a lots to eat and a big time.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by United States. Work Projects Administration

An East Indiaman—the Mountjoy —was lost somewhere on the Kent Group about sixty years ago; and I have read that she had a lot of specie on board.
— from A Memory of the Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke

One of the students was himself a local of sorts, Robert J. Bertini, Jr., controller of the East Hartford research center.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

all at once apparently rendered impatient by his impassive attitude, she came coaxingly toward him, and laid one soft hand on his shoulder.
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

As he did so he cast a shy look on him and, leaning over, said hesitatingly, in a lower voice: “I don't think you will be able to get in at the Springs Hotel.
— from A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte