Some half-dozen of the smartest club members chanced to be together at early dawn in the Jolly Peasant, and forthwith formed the nucleus of a gambling club, which was reinforced during the day by recruits coming back from the town.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

This is a harsh judgment to form of ‘dear, noble-minded, generous-hearted Walter,’ but I fear it is too just.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

To others how express at all My worship in that joyful shrine?
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Coming to England early in the sixties of the nineteenth century he was induced by a friend to attend the lectures and classes of Dr. Ewald, and after due instruction was baptized in the Jews' Chapel, Palestine Place.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He too, as he protested, had an unbounded confidence in Tuan Jim’s wisdom.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

When Odin reached Asgard, he spewed the mead up into the jars.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

But in the judgments they exercise they are most accurate and just, nor do they pass sentence by the votes of a court that is fewer than a hundred.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Socrates is confident that before he could have undertaken the responsibility of such a prosecution, he must have been perfectly informed of the nature of piety and impiety; and as he is going to be tried for impiety himself, he thinks that he cannot do better than learn of Euthyphro (who will be admitted by everybody, including the judges, to be an unimpeachable authority) what piety is, and what is impiety.
— from Euthyphro by Plato

How I used to long for the nice bran mash with niter in it that Jerry used to give us on Saturday nights in hot weather, that used to cool us down and make us so comfortable.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

25:33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

The date of the death of Gaius (Shebat 22) was appointed as a day of memorial in the Jewish calendar; and for a little time the Jews had a respite from tyranny.
— from Josephus by Norman Bentwich

Do not forget me! Tell them in the jungle never to forget me!"
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The German of Heine, when once you are in the joke of his capricious genius, is very simple, and in his poetry it is simple from the first, so that he was, perhaps, the best author I could have fallen in with if I wanted to go fast rather than far.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

And, when she saw him, she would tell him, in the jolliest and sweetest way, that he must make his plans to have their engagement announced at once.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Uncle, what is the joke?
— from Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey

64 The Naides, the beautiful water-nymphs who dwelt in the clear depths of the fountains, did not come out of their quiet haunts to take part in the merriment; nor did the shy Hamadryads leave the safe shelter of their trees to mingle in the joyous dance.
— from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

Invited to join in the meal, Sue declined, saying that his valet and his servant were shortly to bring him his dinner.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

The men who are stabbing their country in their madness and folly; who are crowding our graves and darkening our homes; who are dragging our young men, men like you, who should be the pride and hope of our country, into the jaws of ruin and death."
— from Minnie's Sacrifice by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

After resting here they sailed up the river and named it the James, after James I., King of England.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy