By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

By this light, a most perfidious, and drunken Monster, when's god's a sleepe he'll rob his Bottle Cal.
— from The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Considered on internal evidence, everything seems to point to the age which produced the rest of the Wisdom Literature; and more precisely, a date shortly before or shortly after Proverbs, seems indicated.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard

And this shame becomes more acute when I think of one or two individual books, such especially as M. Henry Cochin's Manuscrit de Monsieur C. A. L. Larsonnier —a most pathetic and delightful story of a mental malady which makes time and memory seem to go backward though the victim can force himself to continue his ordinary duties, and record his sufferings.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Looks like a movie pitcher actor, don't he?
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

When we left the castle we all said, not excepting John Jones, that we had never seen in our lives anything more princely and delightful than the interior.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

So often was the health of Lucille and myself proposed and drunk, that I lost track of those who did me the honor to touch glasses.
— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis

This opinion gave the prince at least as much pleasure as did the personal devotion expressed by the Advocate, and he now stated his intention of working with the peace party.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Sir Humphrey looked at me palely and doubtfully.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

On the whole, notwithstanding my grief about my dear mother's loss, and my perplexity and distress about baby, I have had as much real happiness this winter as it is possible for one to glean in such unfavorable circumstances.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss