[ Shakes hands with mabel chiltern , takes up his hat and stick , and goes out , with a parting glare of indignation at lord goring .]
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Nay more, 'tis justly to be feared, which [4626] Josephus once said of his countrymen Jews, if the Romans had not come when they did to sack their city, surely it had been swallowed up with some earthquake, deluge, or fired from heaven as Sodom and Gomorrah: their desperate malice, wickedness and peevishness was such.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Last of all he caught and slew Cheldric himself, and slaughtering a great multitude took hostages for the surrender of the rest.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Gayelette made up her mind that when he grew to be a man she would make him her husband, so she took him to her ruby palace and used all her magic powers to make him as strong and good and lovely as any woman could wish.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Garrick, for instance, observed in his sprightly manner, with more vivacity than regard to just discrimination, as is usual with wits: 'When Johnson lived much with the Herveys, and saw a good deal of what was passing in life, he wrote his London, which is lively and easy.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Both,” replied Elizabeth archly; “for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure, and got very drunk.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"On this Jove was stung to the very quick, and in his rage he caught Folly by the hair, and swore a great oath that never should she again invade starry heaven and Olympus, for she was the bane of all.
— from The Iliad by Homer

One turns back to the still old house, and sees a grey and lichenous facade with a very finely arched entrance.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He has never said so—it may be only my fancy—but my heart holds always such a great, unutterable tenderness for him, and a sort of sacred reverence, as for some unspoken grief of his.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"I sprang to him and seeing a gush of blood pouring from his mouth, remarked, 'this is the last of the general;' I supported his forehead on my hand, while death speedily closed the scene.
— from Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I waved my hand and shouted a greeting.
— from A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon

Just as we had finished talking about skeletons and were drifting into the subject of fossils, Harris and I heard a shout, and glanced up the steep hillside.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 04 by Mark Twain

But the girl turned back on him a smile as glowing as a tiny nova.
— from Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara

The Celt has always shown a great tendency to cast aside his native language in Gaul, in Spain, and in Ireland; and the isolation of the English townships must have had the effect of greatly accelerating the process.
— from Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

But to think of himself as sick, and gasping to his end, like his father, was to put himself back in his old relation to his wife, when they were first married.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.