[34] thy sister, whose breast I first sucked, Jocasta I mean, deprived of my mother, and reft from her, an orphan, I will depart and save my life.
— from The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

He, therefore, made no scruple to repeat the same jests in many dialogues, or to entangle different plots by the same knot of perplexity; which may be at least forgiven him, by those who recollect that of Congreve's four comedies, two are concluded by a marriage in a mask, by a deception, which, perhaps, never happened, and which, whether likely or not, he did not invent.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

The colony of Lystra—for Lystra was a Roman colony [118] —was devoted to the worship of Jupiter, in memory doubtless of this celebrated visit.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

"That is just it, my dear old aunty, so you have found out how selfish I am, after all.
— from May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

As he also, unfortunately, did not keep a journal, I must depend on the testimony of others, and on his own recollections in later years for a chronicle of his struggles.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

“This,” said Johnny, “is my day off.
— from Sign of the Green Arrow A Mystery Story by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell