Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

FLY THE KITE, to evacuate from a window,—term used in padding kens, or low lodging houses.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?—and I lived on rum, I tell you.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Indeed, there is one more kind of loose literature, the wantonness and pollution in which work most easy havoc upon youth.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This kind of life led we for a year and eight months, but when the fifth day of the ninth month was come, about the time of the second opening of his mouth (for so the whale did once every hour, whereby we conjectured how the hours went away), I say about the second opening, upon a sudden we heard a great cry and a mighty noise like the calls of mariners and the stirring of oars, which troubled us not a little.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

But this kind of logical legerdemain will never counteract the plain suggestions of justice and common-sense.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

As when the flocks neglected by the swain, Or kids, or lambs, lie scatter'd o'er the plain, A troop of wolves the unguarded charge survey, And rend the trembling, unresisting prey: Thus on the foe the Greeks impetuous came; Troy fled, unmindful of her former fame.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Of all reports that were, or may have been, Concerning those the day killed or let live, Four I count only.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

He wore a crest on his helmet adorned with German favors given him by lady admirers, so that the crest of a popular young knight often looked like a slump at the Bon Marché .
— from Comic History of England by Bill Nye

It carried suggestions of a better order and some knowledge of Latin letters.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

The course finally outlined included a knowledge of the principles of trade unionism, and their practical application in field-work, a knowledge of labor legislation, of parliamentary law, and practice in writing and speaking.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

There were backs of books, old bottles, and all kinds of litters lying about.
— from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821 by Mary Browne

And, even as they, as youths, had hardly known their friend more than superficially, so they did not know, on leaving Leiden, that Max had not gone to Overijssel—where his father would have liked to marry him to the third daughter of the father-in-law of his two other sons—but to America, to “seek.”
— from The Later Life by Louis Couperus

I have known other ladies like yourself, and I could tell you why you are always ailing."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

When Er and the spirits arrived, their duty was to go at once to Lachesis; but first of all there came a prophet who arranged them in order; then he took from the knees of Lachesis lots and samples of lives, and having mounted a high pulpit, spoke as follows: 'Hear the word of Lachesis, the daughter of Necessity.
— from The Republic by Plato