What joy would they have to bring hanging to the likes of me? PEGEEN.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

He gives us all the most cordial invitation to his house in the country, saying just what the Williams ought to say to make us welcome.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

In answer to this application, Dr. Johnson wrote the following letter, of which (to use Dr. Burney's own words) 'if it be remembered that it was written to an obscure young man, who at this time had not much distinguished himself even in his own profession, but whose name could never have reached the authour of The Rambler, the politeness and urbanity may be opposed to some of the stories which have been lately circulated of Dr. Johnson's natural rudeness and ferocity.' 'TO MR.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

So I said I would, and left, and Jim was to hide in the woods when he see the doctor coming till he was gone again.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

After much serious consideration the two widows went shopping together—they purchased a hat adorned with ostrich feathers and a cap at the Palais Royal, and the Countess took her friend to the Magasin de la Petite Jeannette, where they chose a dress and a scarf.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

And now, the sun had just wanted to bring it to light, and had gleamed and made circles on the wall, but had not been able to do it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

J. J. was telling us there was an ancient Hebrew Zaretsky or something weeping in the witnessbox with his hat on him, swearing by the holy Moses he was stuck for two quid.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

We were taken to the owner of the house, who questioned us courteously; without telling him the object of our journey, we told him why we had left our path.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A special commission was appointed to try the case, and the first two names on the list of his judges were those of the Comte de Dammartin, president, and Otto Castellani!
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 07, July 1900 House of Jacques Coeur: Bourges; Gothic Carved Woodwork by Various

The Russians offered a steady resistance, and it was not until three that, seeing the heavy masses coming into line, and knowing that Junot was threatening his left, Tuchkov decided to withdraw behind the Stragan rivulet, some 2 miles to his rear, and about the same distance from Lubino.
— from Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 by Edward (Edward A.) Foord

The inference I venture to make is that these 42 judges were the gods of the 42 nomes who, with Osiris, the chief god and the “President,” formed the council of gods, which judged and ordered the affairs of men.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

A place where each one would be at liberty to utter his own crude unrealities, to bring forth his delusions, mistakes, half-formed, hasty judgements; where the depraved ear would reckon discord harmony, and the depraved eye mistake colour; the depraved moral taste take Herod or Tiberius for a king, and shout beneath the Redeemer’s cross, ‘Himself He cannot save!’
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

It therefore cometh not with observation; the Scriptures are clear on the point, and show to the last that when God's kingdom shall be more fully established on the earth, the inhabitants of the earth will be as ignorant of it as the Jews were, that Jesus was the Messiah; for the nations of the earth, with their kings, will yet be gathered together against the people of the Lord, to battle, when the Lord himself will go and fight against them, and there will be one of the most terrible slaughters that ever took place on the earth.
— from The Government of God by John Taylor

Chivalric Meeting.—Rules and Regulations for the Management of Tournaments.—Tournaments forbidden by the Clergy.—Edward the First challenged by the Count de Chalons.—His joust with the French Knights.—The petty Battle of Chalons.—Fatal Encounter of Henry the Second of France with Count Montgomery.—Ferocity and absurdity of these “Points of Honour.
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

I’m sure I know just where to get such an one!”
— from Natalie: A Garden Scout by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Carlisle Barracks was in crude form, just what the West Point Riding School of to-day is.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

He paid but little heed to them, but amused himself instead watching the jackals with their ears pricked up, sitting erect on the edge of the desert.
— from Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 by Anatole France

Janice was too far away to understand; but she was interested—she could not fail to be.
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long