Why should you live here and waste your golden days?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Of course I liked him, and I liked Tetralani even better.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

So when he was complained of by Ishbosheth, he was very uneasy and angry at it, because he had not justice done him by Ishbosheth, to whom he had shown the greatest kindness; whereupon he threatened to transfer the kingdom to David, and demonstrate that he did not rule over the people beyond Jordan by his own abilities and wisdom, but by his warlike conduct and fidelity in leading his army.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathingsuits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear them I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope Ill never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Maurice having decided between Diamond and Ruby, took up his cap, and went out, leaving Helen alone.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Not far from here a holy band of brethren had built their Humble home in a remote valley; their lot it was to chant Praises of God, and to load his altars with fitting gifts.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Adtu maghantakan ang mga buguy sa íyang tindáhan, The loafers hang around her store.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indignation lent him a scathing eloquence, and it was clear that if others had followed his example, and acted as he talked, society would never have been weak enough to receive a foreign upstart like Beaufort—no, sir, not even if he'd married a van der Luyden or a Lanning instead of a Dallas.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Besides this, of course, the genealogical census of every community, studied more in detail, extensive maps, plans and diagrams, illustrating ownership in garden land, hunting and fishing privileges, etc., serve as the more fundamental documents of ethnographic research.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

[190] Now take a spool of white thread, No. 40, fasten the end to the hook-wire on the top of the back; take the base of the pedestal in the left hand and proceed to wind down the feathers.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

That neither ideas nor style alone can keep literature alive is shown by literary history after Shakespeare.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee

[15] Deprived of their leader, the Christian martyrs lost heart, and we do not hear of their mad devotion again.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

After our rescue by Scott we pitched our tents, as has been described, at least half a mile from the fast edge of the Barrier.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

"Her right hand is forever busy, and she never tells her left hand a thing, so we children are always in the dark."
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Thus the latter had at length received the recognition of its claim to a differentiation, and of its right to exist side by side with the older Company, although its steamers were not of an equal quality with those of the latter.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann

From Caughnawaga they proceeded to Johnstown ** by way of the Sammonses, on whose premises every building was burned, and the females, bereft of their protectors and helpers, were left houseless and almost naked.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

This was not the man who had left her a few months ago, strong, confident, impassive; the man who had been her master and before whom she had shrunk like a slave.
— from The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

She looked handsomer and more blooming than ever.
— from Absalom's Hair by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson