Lorenzo followed him; they mounted their horses and rode off, leaving Don Juan and Don Antonio even more astonished and dismayed than himself.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

My life has been every bit as objective--I have a round of little duties--teas and balls and parties, and all that sort of thing, of course.
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

Some of us find our relief in action, in the actual sweat of our bodies; some find it in set hours and rows of little devotional books—the technique of the thing, so to speak.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

Whoever wants to make his children older than any wholesome grandfather ought to be, has only to strip the world stark naked before their faces; bare all its exquisite mystery that keeps one pair of burnished interrogation-points for ever dancing in another pair of eyes, resolve the thrones and paradises and angels they see in the plighted clouds, into a heavy and delusive fog; and, by-and-by, for the quicksilverish atoms of humanity that hunt out every grain of true gold in the rubbish of life, full of marvel and fancy and poetry as any old ballad, he will have a row of little desiccated, unspeculative, philosophical donkeys all draped in wet blankets.
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

On the seal, an impress of which is given on p. 233 of this volume, we see above, on the left, a woman kneeling and crushing the corn, and before her a row of little disks, representing, no doubt, the loaves prepared for baking.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

And, finally, we have a representation of Luca della Robbia, of the fifteenth century, who used earthenware medallions, admirably modelled and fired with white glaze, which were fixed on the outside of buildings, and may be seen to-day on the Foundling Hospital and several churches at Florence.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

Each man, to keep him alive, requires one loaf daily; but to eat two would be a comfort to him, and to eat three would be luxury.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock