Then he hides the deer in any place he fancies, but not among rocks or on the top of a ridge, because in one case many arrows would be broken, and in the other, lost.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Just now there is a plot here to get the Republican party to drop the word "male," and canvass only for the word "white."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Since the occurrences we are about to consider (as impartially as possible), he has found the utmost difficulty in writing, except from right to left across the paper with his left hand.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It tickled Marco to the marrow to hear about such an odd character; but it also prepared him for accidents; and in my experience when you travel with a king who is letting on to be something else and can’t remember it more than about half the time, you can’t take too many precautions.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

This is a poor home-coming.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But the guide-book does not speak of Babette's quiet life afterwards with her father, not at the mill—strangers dwell there now—but in a pretty house in a row near the station.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Thus he rewards you, with this bitter fate; Thus, till the Grecian vengeance is complete: Thus is atoned Patroclus' honour'd shade, And the short absence of Achilles paid.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When, at length, we were fully determined on the size and letter, and several sheets were already printed off, on some trifling alteration I made in a proof, he began the whole again; and at the end of six months we were in less forwardness than on the first day.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5 Possibly there is a pun here: dána , giving, also means cutting.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

"Byes," said Jem, who was troubled at the possible scandal he was about to give, "I promised not to dhrink in a public house; and shure this isn't a public house, glory be to God!"
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

She pretended great affection for him, and brought him to Edinburgh, and secured lodgings for him in a private house.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

Her religious life began in a Puritan home, and in a Congregational meeting-house.
— from Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary by Daniel Dulany Addison

"My dear Prince," she said, "I will take you to a hundred tables in Newport and—I was going to say ten thousand—a thousand in New York, where the food is better cooked than in any private house in Europe." Touched upon a spot peculiarly tender, Koltsoff all but exploded.
— from Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by Lawrence Perry

If you haven’t, he soon discovers it and pulls his backfield in.
— from Right Tackle Todd by Ralph Henry Barbour

The single hair shows the reason in a precise ham.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

Duly regulated, it conduces to the ethical welfare of the individual and promotes his efficiency as a social unit.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

After some recrimination between Pillow and Buckner whether the intention and plan had been to commence the retreat directly from the battlefield, or first to cut a way out and then return to the works, equip for a march and retreat by night, it was agreed to evacuate that night and march out by the ground which had been gained.
— from From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force