M. 1st Miss Mackenzie, and had issue; m. 2ndly, 1809, Marianne, 2nd dau.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

I am losing all heart; tell me, then, for you gods know everything, which of the immortals it is that is hindering me, and tell me also how I may sail the sea so as to reach my home?' "Then,' he said, 'if you would finish your voyage and get home quickly, you must offer sacrifices to Jove and to the rest of the gods before embarking; for it is decreed that you shall not get back to your friends, and to your own house, till you have returned to the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered holy hecatombs to the immortal gods that reign in heaven.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

So, gentlemen, With all my love I do commend me to you; And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do t’express his love and friending to you,
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

I am a man of the educated class: I am just as much at home, I may say, with Prince Kanitelin as I am with you here now.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Seated in a famous arm-chair and in his best suit, constantly within sight of good cheer, he had a comfortable consciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he should not go out of reach of his brother Peter while that poor fellow was above ground.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I still hated and feared the thought of the brute that slept within me, and I had not of course forgotten the appalling dangers of the day before; but I was once more at home, in my own house and close to my drugs; and gratitude for my escape shone so strong in my soul that it almost rivalled the brightness of hope.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

One says, "I have an income of so much, and here is my neighbor who has the same; yet every year he gets something ahead and I fall short; why is it?
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

He is meek, and He is mild, He became a little child.
— from Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience by William Blake

Now some may ask here: If men and women are beings of the same kind, and are engaged in bringing about the same result, why should they have different works to do.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

He told me that if I thought I was going to prove I was not in love with his wife by staying away I was very much mistaken, and he invited me to accompany all the family to Testaccio, where they intended to have luncheon on the following Thursday.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It wearieth me, and henceforth I must live In larger peace, or I may not prevail
— from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland

There motionless and happy in my pain, Lone, not forlorn— There will I sing my sad perpetual strain Until the morn; There will I sing and soothe my stricken breast, Which ne'er can cease To throb and pine and languish, till possest Of its sole peace."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

It has been six weeks since we have heard from you or longer, nearly two months and how I miss you and want you.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis

"Some people might question if Polly was much of a name, when you were really named Mary, and here is Margaret whom we all call Peggy, much to her disgust."
— from Randy and Her Friends by Amy Brooks

Shakespeare's plays is a moral one, and that the sight of Macbeth irresistibly induces us to shun the evil of ambition, is mistaken, and he is mistaken once more if he believes that Shakespeare himself thought so.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It might have been that feelings of delicacy restrained him; my father was rich, while he was but a poor young lawyer; then report had made me an heiress in my own right, as well as a belle, to my worldly mother's great content.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

Discourse and action show man as he is, more directly than the play of [212] the muscles and the moulding of the flesh; and over these poetry has command.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

On the day after my arrival, having introduced myself at the Guardian office, and taken formal possession of my new post, I returned to my hotel in time for the daily dinner which the waitress had informed me was served at one o'clock.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid