Damoklo tuj konsentis al tia propono, kaj agis laŭ la permeso tiel afable donita al li.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

She is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a little list of her lovers, and she is always booking a new lover, or striking out an old lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or otherwise posting her book.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of ——, in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room up stairs.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

One fetches his pedigree from AEneas, another from Brute, a third from king Arthur: they hang up their ancestors' worm-eaten pictures as records of antiquity, and keep a long list of their predecessors, with an account of all their offices and tides, while they themselves are but transcripts of their forefathers' dumb statues, and degenerate even into those very beasts which they carry in their coat of arms as ensigns of their nobility: and yet by a strong presumption of their birth and quality, they live not only the most pleasant and unconcerned themselves, but there are not wanting others too who cry up these brutes almost equal to the gods.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Three of them contained boxes of soldiers, quite ordinary lead soldiers, but of so good a quality as to make Gip altogether forget that originally these parcels had been Magic Tricks of the only genuine sort, and the fourth contained a kitten, a little living white kitten, in excellent health and appetite and temper.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We lengthened our tour into Scotland, that we might see Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond; thence we crossed to Ireland, and passed several weeks in the neighbourhood of Killarney.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The physician on his knees, and bound, said to the king: "At least let me put my affairs in order, and leave my books to persons who will make good use of them.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Kidden , or KIDKEN , a low lodging-house for boys.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren't producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and booze, that haven't got one bathroom per hundred people, and that don't know a loose-leaf ledger from a slip-cover; and it's just about time for some Zenithite to get his back up and holler for a show-down!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

It is known as "lump lime," "caustic lime" and "stone lime."
— from Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

For whereas in the beginning foolish lips may be kissed, a little later they must learn to speak some wisdom.
— from The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George

If, in the wintry moonlight, any gaunt, bare stalks put forth miraculous blossoms above the snow, or if reverent cattle knelt and lowed loving welcome to their Lord, my eyes and ears were holden that I did not see and hear; but I know that it was Real Christmas in my heart as I turned back and saw my child breathing quietly on his bed, a faint color in his pale cheeks again. Wednesday.
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman

He blamed the kind and loyal little circle for painting the world for him in false colors, for preventing him from plunging into the arena, pen in hand.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

Kepitel an' Lybour like the Siamese twins.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Gaspard, who was much younger, could read well, write, and knew a little Latin and English, while the King and his brother were as untaught as peasants in the fields.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It was nobody's business how he meant to dispose of them; and a second later he would have passed the danger line, had not a page boy selected that identical instant to knock at Lord Loveland's door.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

If, however, they knew a little less geography—if, for instance, they were Chinese Boxers, it would not matter in the least which they killed, because to the Chinaman all alike are "foreign devils"; his knowledge of the case does not enable him to differentiate between the various nationalities of Europeans.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

Her father was there, of course, and all the brave knights and lovely ladies of whom she had read in her books.
— from Flower of the Dusk by Myrtle Reed