BRABANTIO The worser welcome: I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors; In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness, Being full of supper and distempering draughts, Upon malicious bravery dost thou come To start my quiet.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

763 The Church has had as much difficulty in showing that Jesus Christ was man, against those who denied it, as in showing that he was God; and the probabilities were equally great.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I only hope you will give me one as long, and have as much delicious intelligence for me.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Then another cart came by at the same pace, but the occupant of the throne was not old like the others, but a man stalwart and robust, and of a forbidding countenance, who as he came up said in a voice far hoarser and more devilish, "I am the enchanter Archelaus, the mortal enemy of Amadis of Gaul and all his kindred," and then passed on.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

‘As you lie here alone, my dear, in the melancholy night, so you must lie somewhere one night, when even I, if I am living then, shall have left you.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Leave him here at my disposal, in case I want him—and allow me to wish you good morning.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“Madam, give me leave to consider you hereafter as my daughter, in which capacity I insist upon your accepting this first instance of my paternal duty and affection.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But she felt always that he remembered her old hostility, and that he still considered her a mere disaffected Indian of his flock.
— from The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase

Lynching has also much diminished in the West, so that it is becoming more and more a Southern crime.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

Joseph went to work; yet every day he appeared more deeply in love with the pretty Nanny; and the damsel herself looked with very evident favor on the dark though handsome youth.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

The ladies to be propitiated are—” “Nine Muses, to whom you will have to act Apollo,” said Dr. May, who, having put his friend into the situation, had a mischievous delight in laughing at him, and watching what he would do.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"No time for deliberation and dignity and such rot, you know." "An advance cash payment of half a million dollars is so full of dignity that its shoes squeak," announced Johnny.
— from Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress by George Randolph Chester

There are a variety of nettings for the hoop and much diversity in the style of arrows, darts and javelins used in the game.
— from Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

I frankly acknowledge that on this occasion I ought to have arranged matters differently; I did not wish to be in fault.
— from My Own Affairs by Princess of Belgium Louise

" "Do you mean you will sleep here?" asked Mr. Damon, indicating the shack where the wireless apparatus was contained.
— from Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

He was kept very busy, and was as yet unable to send him any more detailed information.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair