If we should both continny as we are, why then here we are, and give us a kiss, old lady.' Mrs Boffin who, perpetually smiling, had approached and drawn her plump arm through her lord's, most willingly complied.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Thou hast had experience of that other kind of life: make now trial of this also.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

“In that case,” said Don Quixote, “the Lord has relieved me of the task of avenging his death had any other slain him; but, he who slew him having slain him, there is nothing for it but to be silent, and shrug one’s shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; and I would have your reverence know that I am a knight of La Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When art shall be annexed to beauty, when wiles and guiles shall concur; for to speak as it is, love is a kind of legerdemain; mere juggling, a fascination.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This principle is also the foundation of most of the laws of good manners; a kind of lesser morality, calculated for the ease of company and conversation.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

It is not enough that I have compelled all the knights of Navarre, all the Leonese, all the Tartesians, all the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La Mancha, to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I have the highest idea of the spiritual and refined sentiments of this reverend gentleman, from this single stroke in his character, which I think comes up to any of the honest refinements of the peerless knight of La Mancha, whom, by the bye, with all his follies, I love more, and would actually have gone farther to have paid a visit to, than the greatest hero of antiquity.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

" Nikolay Timofeitch screens Polinka, and, trying to conceal her emotion and his own, wrinkles his face into a smile and says aloud: "There are two kinds of lace, madam: cotton and silk!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA CHAPTER XXV WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS CHAPTER XXVI
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When we returned to our inn, he closeted Lismahago; and having explained his grievance, desired that gentleman to go and demand satisfaction of lord Oxmington in his name.—The lieutenant charged himself with this commission, and immediately set out a horseback for his lordship’s house, attended, at his own request, by my man Archy Macalpine, who had been used to military service; and truly, if Macalpine had been mounted upon an ass, this couple might have passed for the knight of La Mancha and his ‘squire Panza.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

This, then, was the errand of Farmer Green, and with his usual bluntness, he said to the recreant doctor, who chanced to be at home: “Wall, you nigh about killed our little Madge t'other day, when you refused the stifficut, and now we want you to cure her.”
— from Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes

“Oh, well, see to it if you'll be so kind; only let me go, for I've only fifteen minutes now to meet a consultant ten miles away.
— from Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

He came butting into the gym, joshing me about—makin' pers'nal remarks till I kind of lost my goat, and the next thing I knew I was giving him his!"
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

To Jonathan Knowles, of Lowell, Mass., for improvement in Children's Chairs and Wagons.
— from Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Various

But I imagine if you turn out that man against my advice, and he dies on the road to hospital, that some other kind of law might have something to say to it."
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

That lean silhouette, outlined firmly on the sky, high above the heads of the multitude, the lance standing upright, and that bare-boned horse under the rider, those purely Gothic outlines of living things,—all answer perfectly to the conception which we form of the knight of La Mancha, when we read the immortal work of Cervantes.
— from Lillian Morris, and Other Stories by Henryk Sienkiewicz

In any case, the negative conclusion should wait upon indubitable evidence; and the positive, general statement be mostly guardedly made, since the scales will likely tip to the weight of influence, and that may be in the lap of change entirely beyond the ken of “little man.”
— from Criminal Types by V. M. (Vincent Myron) Masten

They are sometimes found in such great numbers that 140.png [Pg 114] they form around the gills a kind of living moss, which at last kills the fish.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden