She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But he refused to take it, and when the cry was raised, “Sir Lancelot hath won the day,” he cried out, “Nay, but Sir Tristram is the victor, for he first began and last endured, and so hath he done each day.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The usual outfit of pumps, white stockings, loose white duck trowsers, blue jackets, clean checked shirts, black kerchiefs, hats well varnished, with a fathom of black ribbon over the left eye, a silk handkerchief flying from the outside jacket pocket, and four or five dollars tied up in the back of the neckerchief, and we were "all right."
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Accordingly Antigonus, turning to the Soldan, said, 'My lord, even as she hath many a time told me and as the gentlemen and ladies, with whom she came, said to me, so hath she recounted unto you.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

'What is that?' asked Ruggieri; and Gianni said, 'I see I must die, and that speedily, and I ask, therefore, by way of favour,—as I am bound with my back to this damsel, whom I have loved more than my life, even as she hath loved me, and she with her back to me,—that we may be turned about with our faces one to the other, so that, dying, I may look upon her face and get me gone, comforted.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It helps weakness of the reins and bladder, and such as make water with difficulty, it provokes lust exceedingly, and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus .
— 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

By and by out with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall, where I staid not, but to the New Exchange to buy gloves and other little errands, and so home and to my office busy till night, and then walked in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and to sing, and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

he continued; “for, make up your mind as much as you like, even a simple headache or a fit of indigestion (un derangement d’estomac) is enough to . . .
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

She works at needlework, knitting, laundry, etc., and shows her work, saying, 'Isn't that good for only a rat?'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The little hunter spoke with an assurance born of long experience, and sat his horse with one hand above his eyes, and the brim of his hat pulled low.
— from Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Especially is this the case with articles of textile manufacture, bales of cloth, dress fabrics and so forth, when all the large emporiums and shops have had their shelves loaded and could digest no more.
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

She said that it was impossible that Nancy could have loved Edward after she had given the girl her view of Edward's career and character.
— from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

After a day or so, perhaps, we will go on one or two little excursions and see how good your head is—a mild scramble or so; and then up to a hut on a pass just here, and out upon the Blumlis-alp glacier that spreads out so and so.”
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The Kentucky hunters were promptly taught that in this no-man's-land, teeming with game and lacking even a solitary human habitation, every Indian must be regarded as a foe.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

He likewise expressed a sincere hope that his old friend, my father, would do nothing to make us otherwise, and that he would become reconciled to the match hereafter, even if he would not give his consent before.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

Her breath came in quick little gasps; she laughed; she tossed her hands; she seemed to become dizzy with delight; and presently, as if this new link with, and reminder of, her past, had moved her as one little expects a savage heart to be moved, two tears gathered in her eyes, then slid down her cheek unheeded, and dried there in the sunlight, as she still gazed at the deer.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Katy could scarcely keep from laughing, especially as she heard Amy, who had been listening to the conversation, give an audible sniff, and inform Mabel that she was glad she was not an English child, who didn't notice things and liked grown-up graves as much as she did dear little cunning ones like this!
— from What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge

Could he, in these last hours of his life, embitter a simple heart, bring offences once more upon one of these 'little ones'?
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

A despondent lover enters and sings his melancholy plight as he reflects upon the fickleness of the May Queen, interrupted at intervals by the merry shouts of the chorus:— “With a laugh as we go round To the merry, merry sound Of the tabor and the pipe, We will frolic on the green; For since the world began, And our royal river ran, Was never such a May Day, And never such a Queen.”
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton