Each of the men still had a number of important things to say about prohibition, and now that each had a loyal listener in his dinner-partner he burst out: “I found a place where I can get all the hootch I want at eight a quart—” “Did you read about this fellow that went and paid a thousand dollars for ten cases of red-eye that proved to be nothing but water?
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

We have a notice of it in Sibbald's Canadian Magazine of January, 1833, in the following terms: "All the fashionable and well-disposed attended; the band of the gallant 79th played, at each table stood a lady; and in a very short time all the articles were sold to gentlemen,—who will keep 'as the apple of their eye' the things made and presented by such hands."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And Casaubon must have had a notion of it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

One might think from the look of you that you had been having a night of it.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He never goes outside of his palace, unless when he goes hunting, and no one is allowed to talk with him except through the speaking tube.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

You mean as Adam's fond o' Dinah.” “Aye! hast ever had any notion of it before?”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

"That is enough," said Dorothea, "for with friends we must not look too closely into trifles; and whether it be on the shoulder or on the backbone matters little; it is enough if there is a mole, be it where it may, for it is all the same flesh; no doubt my good father hit the truth in every particular, and I have made a lucky hit in commending myself to Don Quixote; for he is the one my father spoke of, as the features of his countenance correspond with those assigned to this knight by that wide fame he has acquired not only in Spain but in all La Mancha; for I had scarcely landed at Osuna when I heard such accounts of his achievements, that at once my heart told me he was the very one I had come in search of."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was in the top drawer with his handkerchiefs and neckties, or in the next with his shirts and pyjamas, or in the lowest of all with his suits.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Be the powers, an we'll have a night of it!
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

456 One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Very true.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He had a notion of illustrating every earlier reign in which his ancestors flourished,—different apartments in correspondence with different dates.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Even now he allows no one in Asben to be greater than himself.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

He held a number of important public offices and was governor of Massachusetts in 1810 and 1811.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

Sometimes, however, as near Oxford, it flows silently onwards with scarcely a dimple on its unruffled surface.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Various

Las Casas was a settler in the island of Cuba , and had assigned to him a number of Indians in repartimient
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

For a man may have assurance not only in himself, but also in another, according to 2 Cor.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The facts seem to justify us in considering that starting with a spot we may obtain, according to the development, either an ocellus, a stripe or bar, or a blotch, and that between, these may have any number of intermediate varieties.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor

And withal they learn also to be idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

The characteristics of ignorance, simplicity, and headlong impulsiveness attributed to him by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, are entirely foreign to his character as elsewhere represented; even in the Lanzelet they are [Pg 99] promptly discarded: but they are the very essence of Perceval's character, he, and no other, is the schöne tumbe of romance.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston