Thus with moaning she wept, and her handmaidens, standing by, lamented; but Jason spake gently to her with comforting words: (ll. 295-305) "Do not, I pray thee, mother, store up bitter sorrows overmuch, for thou wilt not redeem me from evil by tears, but wilt still add grief to grief.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Jolu saved him from social disgrace by showing up just then, in an oversize leather baseball jacket, sharp sneakers, and a meshback cap advertising our favorite Mexican masked wrestler, El Santo Junior.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

I took my leave of him upon the quarter-deck with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down to dinner.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Baker (G. Schirmer’s) BEETHOVEN and his Nine Symphonies by Pitts Sanborn BRAHMS and some of his Works by Pitts Sanborn MOZART and some Masterpieces by Herbert F. Peyser WAGNER and his Music-Dramas by Robert Bagar TSCHAIKOWSKY and his Orchestral Music by Louis Biancolli JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH and a few of his major works by Herbert F. Peyser SCHUBERT and his work by Herbert F. Peyser These booklets are available to Radio Members at 25c each while the limited supply lasts.
— from Mendelssohn and Certain Masterworks by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser

The former by John Adams, late President of the United States; the latter by Jonathan Sewall, then king's Attorney General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

Wafers. Take a table spoonful of orange flower water, a table spoonful of flour, the same [272] of good cream, sifted sugar to the palate, and a dessert spoonful of syrup of cinnamon; beat all the ingredients together for twenty minutes; then make the wafer tongs hot, and pour a little batter just sufficient to cover the irons; bake them over a slow fire, and when taken from the tongs roll them round, and preserve them in a dry place.
— from The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined by John Mollard

“I hope she’ll be the kind that likes boys,” Jim said after a thoughtful pause.
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston