I indulged neither in love affairs nor gaming.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The sons of the Achaeans came running with a loud cry towards him, hoping to drag him away, and they showered their darts on the Trojans, but none of them could wound him before he was surrounded and covered by the princes Polydamas, Aeneas, Agenor, Sarpedon captain of the Lycians, and noble Glaucus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the height of their bodies.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To the Nonpareil himself, who wanted not insight, it is clear at intervals, and dimly certain at all times, that his trade is by nature temporary, growing daily more difficult; that changes incalculable lie at no great distance.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In respect of property, they bind , as Lapis Asius, Nectius, Geodes, Pumice-stone.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Babbitt was to be heard sonorously agreeing with the once-hated Miss Minnie Sonntag that persons who let a night go by without dancing to jazz music were crabs, pikers, and poor fish; and he roared “You bet!”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

When different people see what they call the same table, they see things which are not exactly the same, owing to difference of point of view, but which are sufficiently alike to be described in the same words, so long as no great accuracy or minuteness is sought.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Every other original eu had, even in old Latin, passed into ou and developed like the latter: as, *neumen (Greek νεῦμα ) became first *noumen , then ( 100 ) nūmen .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The lords of justice would demand to know all the whys and wherefores, and the Italian consul at Chicago would come down and make a fuss, and the man behind the dago would lay low and no good would come.
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

It is of little use attempting to teach our children the Word of God if our lives are not governed by that Word.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

"But, for my sake," she added, in a kind of howl, between crying and scolding, "do try to behave yourself during the short time I have to live, and not go to giving away ponies, and mercy knows what."
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

Behind the bar was a small bar parlour, and behind that two more rooms, the house on that side finishing in a low and narrow gallery running parallel with the outside wall.
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Its long and narrow garden ran along the hillside, a slope of roses and of orange flowers, of thick, hot grass and of tangled green shrubs.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens

I worked till late at night getting my cutter ready.
— from Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove

" Hardly had he uttered the words when his blood began to flow more quickly, his nerves became stronger, his limbs firmer, his flesh fresher, his eyes more fiery, his silver hairs were turned into gold, his mouth, which was a sacked village, became peopled with teeth; his beard, which was as thick as a wood, became like a nursery garden—in short, he was changed to a most beautiful youth.
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Gerald listened with the complacent happiness of a secure lover, and Neaera gravely apologised for not having waited to make her choice till she had seen Mr. Blodwell.
— from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale by Anthony Hope

This is owing to the fact that they are learning a new German National Anthem which has just been introduced into the Fleet, set to an old English tune.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various