[275] Sad dog , a merry fellow, a joker, a “gay” or “fast” man.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He stood before the covered laundry tubs, eating a chicken leg and half a saucer of raspberry jelly, and grumbling over a clammy cold boiled potato.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

This is the reason why a stranger, like [Pg 74] myself, instead of feeling envy or humiliation before these manifestations of beauty, these creations of love, feels a readiness to participate in the joy and glory of such revealment of the human heart.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Then you will soon observe whether a man is just and gentle, or rude and unsociable; these are the signs which distinguish even in youth the philosophical nature from the unphilosophical.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Betimes at my office with the joyners, and giving order for other things about it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Jehu also gave orders to Bidkar, the captain of the third part of his army, to cast the dead body of Joram into the field of Naboth, putting him in mind of the prophecy which Elijah prophesied to Ahab his father, when he had slain Naboth, that both he and his family should perish in that place; for that as they sat behind Ahab's chariot, they heard the prophet say so, and that it was now come to pass according to his prophecy.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The opportunities are just as great on the social side, whether we look at the life of collective humanity in its past or in its future.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And now Cestius himself marched from Ptolemais, and came to Cesarea; but he sent part of his army before him to Joppa, and gave order, that if they could take that city [by surprise] they should keep it; but that in case the citizens should perceive they were coming to attack them, that they then should stay for him, and for the rest of the army.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

which is partly owing to the justice and goodness of the princes themselves, and partly to the reverence they pay to the popes, who, as they are the most religious observers of their own promises, so they exhort all other princes to perform theirs, and, when fainter methods do not prevail, they compel them to it by the severity of the pastoral censure, and think that it would be the most indecent thing possible if men who are particularly distinguished by the title of ‘The Faithful’ should not religiously keep the faith of their treaties.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

B. I teach extinction, noble general, Of hatred, greed, and lust, but I insist On doing what is right and just and good; On doing resolutely what we do, On searching for the truth, on setting up Its lamp and following its holy light.
— from The Buddha: A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Paul Carus

Accounts corresponding in temper and vividness with that of the journey are given of Dawson, the miners and mining, the history of the Klondyke mining enterprise, Klondyke types of character and adventure, the toils and trials and profit and losses of the "Pilgrims," the workings of the Government, and the return home to civilization—which does not appear, after all, to have offered transcendentally superior attractions to those who had experienced the pleasure of adventure.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 by Various

All she caught was just a glimpse of me in Dad's dust coat, and that came to my ankles.
— from The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston

He was himself a Tory, not from rational conviction—for his serious opinion was that one form of government was just as good or as bad as another—but from mere passion, such as inflamed the Capulets against the Montagues, or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I stood for it three days, trying to jolly a grin on to him or rattle a word loose, but he just wouldn't jolt.
— from Pardners by Rex Beach

"When are you going to make your fortune, John, and get out of that disagreeable hardware concern?" demanded Di, pausing after an exciting "round," and looking almost as much exhausted as if it had been a veritable pugilistic encounter.
— from A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

It is obvious that just as Germany offered to respect French territory in Europe at the expense of the French colonial empire, so the Allies, if victorious, might divide the German colonies between them.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson