Yet put the case (albeit I yield not to it) that, by the instigation of the devil, my wife should go about to wrong me, make me a cuckold downwards to the very breech, disgrace me otherwise, steal my goods from me, yea, and lay violently her hands upon me;—she nevertheless should fail of her attempts and not attain to the proposed end of her unreasonable undertakings.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The beautiful lady "Moon," renowned for her lovely voice, her eloquence, and poetic fire, sang of him thus: "In all the west I find no right noble man save Ibrahim, but he is nobility itself.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on the doll belonging to “these young ladies.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

" The stranger stopped suddenly, looked very hard at the speaker, and then gasped for breath.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Again I changed my dress, again I sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire , and which he told inimitably.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

We were neither of us young, but we lived very happy together—happier than our neighbour, Mr. Catherick, lived along with his wife when they came to Old Welmingham a year or two afterwards.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men—so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone from us, and we knew even then that to prolong our days indefinitely would only be to prolong our sufferings.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He could not any longer delay his departure; but as his journey to London might be followed, even sooner than he now conjectured, by his longer voyage, he entreated me to bestow as much of my society on him as I could spare.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

LABOR VIRTUE HONOR.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

Extract of blackroot, ( leptandra virginica ,) half an ounce.
— from The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management by George H. Dadd

He looked very happy.
— from A Whim, and Its Consequences Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The leading works upon Constitutional Law are Cooley's General Principles of Constitutional Law , and Constitutional Limitations ; Von Holst's, Hare's and Pomeroy's treatises on Constitutional Law.
— from Government and Administration of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby

" Peter looked very hard at Jimmy to see if he was fooling or telling the truth.
— from The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

A15-210 Langhammer v. Hamilton , 295 F. 2d 642, 648 (1st Cir. 1961); see also Chaunt v. United States , 364 U.S. 350, 355 (1960) (denaturalization proceeding).
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

That night in the restaurants one heard Frenchmen express the extraordinary hope that nothing too terrible had happened to brave Lieutenant von Heidssen. M. DELCASSÉ, FRANCE’S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

of Tiffin, 563 Lorenzbirne, 450 Loriol de Barny, 450 Lothrop, 450 Loubiat, 450 Louis Cappe, 451 Louis Grégoire, 451 Louis Noisette, 451 Louis Pasteur, 451 Louis-Philippe, 451 Louis Van Houte, 451 Louis Vilmorin, 451 Louise (syn. of Louise Bonne de Jersey), 193 Louise-Bonne, 451 Louise Bonne d’Avanches Panachée, 452 Louise Bonne de Jersey, 193 ; parent of Du Breuil Père, 370 ; Magnate, 460 ; Princess, 512 ; Professeur Dubreuil, 514 ; Souvenir de du Breuil Père, 549 Louise Bonne of Jersey (Syn. of Louise Bonne de Jersey), 193 Louise-Bonne de Printemps, 452 ; parent of Baron Leroy, 259 Louise Bonne Sannier, 452 ; parent of Boieldien, 312 Louise de Boulogne, 452 Louise Dupont, 452 Louise d’Orléans, 452 Louise de Prusse, 452 Louison, 453 Lovaux, 453 Lovell, W. G. L., orig.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick