Toto jumped out of Dorothy's arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

My sight is clear and regular enough, but, at working, it is apt to dazzle; as I most manifestly find in poetry: I love it infinitely, and am able to give a tolerable judgment of other men’s works; but, in good earnest, when I apply myself to it, I play the child, and am not able to endure myself.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But, for my part, I abominate the scurvy churl for whom I am supposed to jump out of my skin, even though never a 'thank you' should I get from him for doing so.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Moreover, when the Sinaketans do it in Sanaroa, the proceedings are very much the same, with just one or two phases missed out.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

If still, beneath the skies, You turn, O Jeanne, on our mystery Soft, discontented eyes!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

I know, I said, that such was your position; but what I would further consider is, whether this power which is possessed by the superior state can exist or be exercised without justice or only with justice.
— from The Republic by Plato

Mr. Sedley's eyes twinkled in a manner indescribably roguish, and he looked at Amelia; and Amelia, hanging down her head, blushed as only young ladies of seventeen know how to blush, and as Miss Rebecca Sharp never blushed in her life—at least not since she was eight years old, and when she was caught stealing jam out of a cupboard by her godmother.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"May it please your majesty, your royal ancestor Mahomed Jelaul ul Deen Akbar, whose throne is now in heaven, conducted the affairs of this empire in equity and firm security for the space of fifty-two years, preserving every tribe of men in ease and happiness, whether they were followers of Jesus or of Moses, of David or Mahomed; were they Brahmins, were they of the sect of Dharians, which denies the eternity of matter, or of that which ascribes the existence of the world to chance, they all equally enjoyed his countenance and favour: insomuch that his people, in gratitude for the indiscriminate protection he afforded them, distinguished him by the appellation of Juggut Gooroo (Guardian of Mankind).
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great’s old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There is One who bringeth light out of darkness, joy out of sorrow, humility out of wrong.
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

Fair play in discussion is sustained by a cultivated respect, by a correction of natural instinct; men need to be trained to be jealous of obscurantism, of unfair argument, of authoritative interference with opinion when that opinion is against them.
— from New Worlds For Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

CHRIST speaking of the law, said: “One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled.”
— from Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Dwight Lyman Moody

This basin was surrounded by thick mangroves, and completely concealed from every thing without by [Pg 13] the jutting out of a point at its entrance.
— from Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. by Daniel Collins

They went about to kill Jesus, out of love to the law.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

Jim Hackley's house is just over on the other corner—why, you can see it from here.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

Whenever the waiter came near him he turned crimson—he might have been just out of prison and the waiter in the know. . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Oh! if she could but use it just once on an actual enemy instead of firing it at an indicated one!
— from The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War by O. W. (Oscar William) Coursey

Only under the great sycamore, from one of its long, pale branches that stretched across the road, hung that dead thing with the toes turned a little in, just out of our reach, turning and swaying a little in the night wind.
— from The Spectre In The Cart 1908 by Thomas Nelson Page

John (St.) of Jerusalem, order of, 61. 99.
— from Notes and Queries, Index to Eighth Volume, July-December 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various