If I cannot now persuade you to make a lasting peace, and so become the benefactor instead of the scourge of the two nations, be well assured that you shall never assail Rome without first passing over the corpse of your mother.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

And then came the farmer, a good-like sort of man, grave, and well-behaved; and spoke to me in such sort, as made me a little pacified; and seeing no help for it, I went in; and the wife immediately conducted me up stairs to the best apartment, and told me, that was mine as long as I staid: and nobody should come near me but when I called.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And there [is] a great convent, and all they be as hermits, and they drink no wine, but if it be on principal feasts; and they be full devout men, and live poorly and simply with joutes and with dates, and they do great abstinence and penances.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Mi adiaŭis lin per adiaŭa saluto , I bade farewell to him by a farewell salute (see also 273).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

They made a long pause, and said they did not know.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

Chop fine three quarters of a pound of sausage-meat, add eight mushrooms, a little parsley and sage, all chopped fine; mix all together, and cover your chops on both sides with the farce, and wrap up each chop with the caul of pork.
— from French Dishes for American Tables by Caron, Pierre, active 1886-1899

After a timid knock she passed in, and made a little picture as she stood in the firelight, in her brown velveteen frock and large white-frilled pinafore.
— from Odd by Amy Le Feuvre

Serve with the following sauce in a boat or saucer: Put in a bowl half a teaspoonful of mustard, a little pepper and salt; then pour one or two tablespoonfuls of vinegar on, little by little, beating with a fork at the same time; again, three or four tablespoonfuls of oil, and in the same way; and when the whole is well mixed, serve.
— from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food by Pierre Blot

Again that long, drawn-out "M-m-m-m." A long pause and Schwinn said, "Maeder is an American citizen, I believe."
— from Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. (John Louis) Spivak

For the dressing, take six yolks and one whole egg; beat to a froth, mix with two spoonfuls of salad oil, one spoonful mixed mustard, a little pepper and salt, one pint vinegar, heated; before it boils, stir in the other ingredients; cook till thick, stirring all the time.
— from Recipes Tried and True by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

She made a lovely picture as she stood in the sunlit road, listening with a half smile to the liquid golden notes of the siffleur de montagne .
— from The Ship of Coral by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

"Let's go into the Lovers' Walk and talk till tea-time," Maud Verrall suggested; if Stella could not play tennis she might at least prove a satisfactory recipient of confidences, and Maud had much to impart that would surely astonish the unsophisticated girl from The Chestnuts.
— from Star of India by Alice Perrin