There is also an epigram in the before mentioned collection of poems, in various metres, in which I have made a collection of notices of all the illustrious men that have ever died, in every kind of metre and rhythm, in epigrams and odes.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I will not make a lobster kettle of my ****, a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point at Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier to grant him a favour.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Why did the physical sciences never arrive at any true knowledge or make any real progress?
— from Phaedrus by Plato

It enlarged his knowledge of men and refined his tastes; he became a man of the world and never lost what he had learnt; and when he turned his thoughts wholly towards religion, his worldly knowledge was a part of his composition which is essential to the value of his work.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

For my Dulcinea, I will venture to swear, never saw a Moor in her life, as he is, in his proper costume, and she is this day as the mother that bore her, and I should plainly be doing her a wrong if, fancying anything else, I were to go mad with the same kind of madness as Roland the Furious.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tryphaena was lying in Giton’s lap by this time, covering his bosom with kisses one minute and rearranging the curls upon his shaven head the next.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Could the reader have seen him gently leading me by the hand—as he sometimes did—patting me on the head, speaking to me in soft, caressing tones and calling me his “little Indian boy,” he would have deemed him a kind old man, and really, almost fatherly.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The youngest of his sons, Noël Brulart de Sillery, [169] having brilliantly completed his studies at Paris in the classics, entered, at the age of 18, the military order of the Knights of Malta, and resided twelve years in that island as a knight; his martial bearing and ability, modesty, and uniform good conduct soon paved the way for him to the highest dignities in this celebrated Order.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

He married the daughter of the king of Manua, and resided at Manua for some time.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner

“The inscription,” says Prof. Palmer, “commemorates the reign of a certain Mesha, King of Moab, and records the triumphs obtained by him over Israel in the course of a long and sanguinary struggle.
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle

They are even the conditions of the highest kinds of moral and religious life, and the necessary presuppositions of health and progress.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

In a few minutes I saw a body of them enter the coffee-house marching arm in arm, two by two, stamping on the ground with their feet in a kind of measure, and repeating in loud chorus as they walked round the spacious apartment, the following grisly stanza:— “Que es lo que abaja Por aquel cerro?
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Haven't you any ears?" "Not for your kind of music," Allyn returned bluntly.
— from Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray

He has a little cubicle behind the pilot's compartment, with all kinds of maps and rulers and things.
— from The Dope on Mars by Jack Sharkey

The knights of Malta are rich; they have large revenues: Checchino receives one thousand dollars a year (£200), and has his apartments rent free in the palace of the Order in the Via Condotti in Rome, besides other advantages; so, for a single man, he is amply provided for.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.