The principal habits are two in number, virtue and vice, whose peculiar definitions, descriptions, differences, and kinds, are handled at large in the ethics, and are, indeed, the subject of moral philosophy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We attribute to ourselves imaginary and fantastic good, future and absent good, for which human capacity cannot of herself be responsible; or good, that we falsely attribute to ourselves by the license of opinion, as reason, knowledge, and honour, and leave to them for their dividend, essential, durable, and palpable good, as peace, repose, security, innocence, and health; health, I say, the fairest and richest present that nature can make us.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I can see through him, I know all his affairs like the five fingers of my hand, and he feels that, and he always follows me about, we are regular inseparables.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The same evening all Villefort’s servants, who had assembled in the kitchen, and had a long consultation, came to tell Madame de Villefort that they wished to leave.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Nature, in these respects, may safely be left to herself; let women only acquire knowledge and humanity, and love will teach them modesty.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Ignorant of all this, I put my unrisen bread into a cold kettle, and heaped a large quantity of hot ashes above and below it.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Thus endeth the fifth book of the conquest that King Arthur had against Lucius the Emperor of Rome, and here followeth the sixth book, which is of Sir Launcelot du Lake.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

And then he told her all, what he was, and how he had changed his name because he would not be known, and how a lady told him that he should never be whole till he came into this country where the poison was made, wherethrough I was near my death had not your ladyship been.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"What do you know about him?" asked Laurie, grateful for the good advice, but objecting to the lecture, and glad to turn the conversation from himself, after his unusual outbreak.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

‘There!’ said Mr. Weller, throwing all his energy into one most complicated kick, as he at length permitted Mr. Stiggins to withdraw his head from the trough, ‘send any vun o’ them lazy shepherds here, and I’ll pound him to a jelly first, and drownd him artervards!
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A present from an African master of the horse is not a disinterested gift; he had seen the presents delivered to the king, and he ardently longed for a slip of the red cloth wherewith to decorate his person, and set off the jetty blackness of his skin.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

O. N. kró , a hut, a little cottage (Haldorson), Norse, kro , specialized to "wine or ale house."
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

i ke kaikuahine, a hele aku la a uwe iho la, no ka mea,
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

With senses keenly alert, he, also, listened.
— from Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main by Cyrus Townsend Brady

This was pitching it strong, but his heart was carrying royals, sky-scrapers, moon-rakers , and his pulse was sailing at the rate of ten knots an hour at least; so elate was he to serve a brave man in distress, and above all, a son of the ocean: "come, let us have every thing good, and spic and span new.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 291 - Supplement to Vol 10 by Various

"They aren't," Kathleen assured her; "at least, Phœbus wasn't, he was most awfully polite and nice."
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I wished that I was back there—until I read, down at the bottom of the last page, that Beryl King and her Aunt Lodema had gone back to the East.
— from The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower

'I saw Kinnaird, and had a long talk with him.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe