' For some time after this day I did not see him very often, and of the conversation which I did enjoy, I am sorry to find I have preserved but little.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

But I durſt eate, I aſſure you.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

ANT: Insist, demand, exact, intimidate, command, coerce.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

What I do expect is to get up what rations of hard bread, coffee and salt we can, and make the country furnish the balance."
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Insurrection is difficult: each individual uncertain even of his next neighbour; totally uncertain of his distant neighbours, what strength is with him, what strength is against him; certain only that, in case of failure, his individual portion is the gallows!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I am sorry that such sorrow I procure; And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart That I crave death more willingly than mercy; 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Hence there must be a division of labour into different employments; into wholesale and retail trade; into workers, and makers of workmen’s xxxiii tools; into shepherds and husbandmen.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They were no sooner arranged, than the little girl exclaimed, "I declare, Ellen, I believe you are right."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Evenly even number is that which is divided equally into even number, until it comes to indivisible unity, as for example, LXIV has a half XXXII, this again XVI; XVI, VIII; VIII, IV; IV, II; II, I, which is single and indivisible.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

Of course the poet was in dead earnest in writing thus; but the two last lines give us pause.
— from Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer

Spencer takes his leading terms from the material world in defining evolution (in the simplest form) as integration of matter and dissipation of movement; but as he—not always quite consistently (Cf.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

In Darkest England is an obvious plagiarism on Stanley, and The Way Out is suggested by his long travel through the awful Central African forest.
— from Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by G. W. (George William) Foote

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— from The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare

I devoured everything in the shape of a book that fell into my hands.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

This, in fact, is distinctly expressed in the last line, and in this sense alone can the words he regarded as at all touching or impressive.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown