Wherefore, the King saying to him one day that he wished to make him the first man in Naples, Giotto answered, [Pg 83] "And for that end am I lodged at the Porta Reale, in order to be the first in Naples.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coast—a man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad—and I never gave a peep into Rochester church, or took notice of the dock of Chatham, or visited St. Thomas at Canterbury, though they all three laid in my way— —But mine, indeed, is a particular case— So without arguing the matter further with Thomas o'Becket, or any one else—I skip'd into the boat, and in five minutes we got under sail, and scudded away like the wind.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But as the officers were hauling him off, Æsop cried out, "Did I not give a proper reply?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

"She is not going at present—say for a year or so.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But I neglected going, and perhaps should never have gone, if chance had not discovered to me the treasure which lay concealed in that retired spot.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But a pencil-tip is no good at pointing at a single atom in your screen.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Here they talked of my Lord Hinchingbroke’s match with Lord Burlington’s daughter, which is now gone a pretty way forward, and to great content, which I am infinitely glad of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Hence the agreement of politics and morals is only possible in a federative union, a union which is necessarily given a priori , according to the principles of right.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

I, as I look’d towards the French coast—a man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad——and I never gave a peep into Rochester church, or took notice of the dock of Chatham, or visited St. Thomas at Canterbury, though they all three laid in my way—— —But mine, indeed, is a particular case—— So without arguing the matter further with Thomas o’Becket, or any one else—I skip’d into the boat, and in five minutes we got under sail, and scudded away like the wind.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

= strengð strēon I. (±) n. gain, acquisition, property, treasure , AO, WW ; Æ, CP:
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

And yet, with all these gratifying results, I never got a penny out of the American edition.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume II by Frank Frankfort Moore

I never get any peace."
— from A Change of Air by Anthony Hope

"It is not green and peaceful and smiling, but it is grand and strong and stern like Him who made it.
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is no grasping after power in the great Apostle of the Gentiles; no desire to keep everything in his own hands, that he might have the credit of all that was done.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

But this last is not a safe conclusion, for the blue birds and robins have been known to err in their choice of a wintering place, some stopping in northern Georgia and perishing there because of their blunder.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 4 [November 1901] by Various

The United States never guarantied to any patentee the receipt of any given sum for his invention, nor gave any pledge that his exclusive right should in no instance be violated.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

On the immediate foreshore, under a low cliff, there stood some score of houses, 190 trellised and verandahed, set in narrow gardens, and painted gaudily in green and white; the whole surrounded and shaded by a grove of cocoa-palms and fruit trees, springing (as by miracle) from the bare lava.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

It has displayed great energy and ingenuity in pestering and insulting naturalised Germans and people of German origin in Britain--below the rank of the Royal Family, that is--and in making enduring bad blood between them and the authentic British.
— from What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A righteous and upright man, consenting with a wicked man in sin, or, through fear of him, not daring to do his duty, turning to him and his way, or dallying and flattering him in his iniquity, is like “a troubled fountain,” is not good and profitable for edification nor correction, having troubled the purity of his soul through the mud of carnal respects and interests.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

At the end of this passage there is a drawbridge over what was formerly the moat, but which is now grassed and planted with shrubbery.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe