Ariel, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell; Exit ARIEL I will discase me, and myself present As I was sometime Milan.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

ANOTHER: I have a ringing in my ears.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The rites performed in India on the completion of a house are represented in modern Europe by the familiar “house-warming.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

From the first moment of his having heard that such a preparation was attainable, he evinced a solicitude to procure it, and on every occasion never forgot to remind us of his anxiety respecting it; more especially on our departure on the mission his injunctions were particularly directed to this object.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick, so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl, and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o’ these days; and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones that unless a man were curs’d
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

His father did not take the trouble to scold him at length, but said with more severity than I should have expected, “When you want to go out by yourself, you can do so, but I will not have a rebel in my house, so when you go, take good care that you never come back.”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I was constantly reminded by the ladies of the house that gentlemen should not come to this country without they were able to put up with a little inconvenience; that I should make as good a settler as a butterfly in a beehive; that it was impossible to be nice about food and dress in the Bush ; that people must learn to eat what they could get, and be content to be shabby and dirty, like their neighbours in the Bush ,—until that horrid word Bush became synonymous with all that was hateful and revolting in my mind.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Yet the image of Christ remained in men's hearts and retained its marvellous authority, so that even now, when so many who call themselves Christians, being pure children of nature, are without the least understanding of what Christianity came to do in the world, they still offer his person and words a sincere if inarticulate worship, trying to transform that sacrificial and crucified spirit, as much as their bungling fancy can, into a patron of Philistia Felix.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

country with his family, which would have been the greatest happiness for him; and remaining in Moscow, he came down to the country from time to time for a day or two.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I am no longer afraid of having a rival in my child, as my wife loves and trusts me now, and my lot is as perfectly happy a one as any mortal can hope for.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

But Barbara annoyed him, for not only had she shown herself a renegade in marrying a man who was not “one of us,” but with all the advantages she had enjoyed since birth of knowing what “we” were, she gloried in her new relations, saying, without any proper reticence about the matter, that they were Real People, whose character and wits vastly transcended anything that Combers had to show.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Suspicion against Madame Lafarge had always rankled in Madame de Leautaud’s mind, and it was soon strengthened by her strange antics with regard to the jewels.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

The two men were only six years distant in age, but so strong is old association, that Robert’s feeling toward his friend had always remained in many respects the feeling of the undergraduate toward the don.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

All had a reef in mainsails, and topmasts were housed when anchors were broken out, but 'Satanita's' was very unwisely got on end, and she subsequently set a jibheader.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

Alexandria being a port of entry, and having a railroad, is more a strategic point for the invasion of Virginia than are Arlington Heights.
— from Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

2 The Sānsias say that their ancestors have always resided in Mārwār and Ajmer.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

I offered him a room in my house, but he declined it.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

This psychological history is made out by a study of the literature products left behind in the ascent from the lower levels of development to the higher, as represented in modern civilization.
— from The Story in Primary Instruction: Sixteen Stories and How to Use Them by H. Avis (Hannah Avis) Perdue