They must either, For so run the conditions, leave those remnants Of fool and feather that they got in France, With all their honourable points of ignorance Pertaining thereunto-as fights and fireworks; Abusing better men than they can be, Out of a foreign wisdom-renouncing clean
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Pork and hay would suggest corn and fodder; corn and fodder would suggest cows and horses; cows and horses would suggest the circus and certain celebrated bare-back riders; the transition from the circus to the menagerie was easy and natural; from the elephant to equatorial Africa was but a step; then of course the heathen savages would suggest religion; and at the end of three or four hours' tedious jaw, the watch would change, and Brown would go out of the pilot-house muttering extracts from sermons he had heard years before about the efficacy of prayer as a means of grace.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But now—beshrew yon nimble deer— Like that same hermit's, thin and spare, The copse must give my evening fare; Some mossy bank my couch must be, Some rustling oak my canopy.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Two empty chairs were too much even for Susan who had thought in September that there would not be one.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It was a thousand pities—though I believe, an' please your honour, I am going to say but a foolish kind of a thing for a soldier— A soldier, cried my uncle Toby, interrupting the corporal, is no more exempt from saying a foolish thing, Trim, t
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In this stage of the obsequies, a warrior much renowned for deed in arms, and more especially for services in the recent combat, a man of stern and grave demeanor, advanced slowly from the crowd, and placed himself nigh the person of the dead.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

M. Mallet every few seconds throws a cigarette paper into-space and says quietly: “We are rising, always rising,” while Captain Jovis, radiant with joy, rubs his hands together and repeats: “Eh? this varnish?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

His elevated wish for more and more evidence for spirit, in opposition to the groveling belief of materialism, led him to a love of such mysterious disquisitions.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

For indefinable as the predicate 'vanity' may be in se , it is clearly something that permits anaesthesia, mere escape from suffering, to be our rule of life.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

= KEY: Spare \a.\. SYN: Scanty, unplentiful, inabundant, meagre, economical, frugal, stinted, restricted, parsimonious, niggardly, chary, superfluous, disposable, available, lean, thin, ill-conditioned.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He had rough red hair and a red beard, his face had a sort of twist that made every feature seem crooked.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A simple kimono of this sort can be bought almost anywhere for $2.50, or can be supplied by Messrs. Einstein & Fickelbrot (see advertising pages) for twenty-five dollars.
— from Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

First, I had observed, that the same day that I broke away from my father and my friends, and ran away to Hull, in order to go to sea, the same day afterwards I was taken by the Sallee man of war, and made a slave: the same day of the year that I escaped out of the wreck of the ship in Yarmouth Roads, that same day-year afterwards I made my escape from Sallee in the boat: and the same day of the year I was born on, viz.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

It is built on exactly the same lines as the experimental transmitter just described, but instead of using a 100 volt plate amplifier as a makeshift generator of oscillations it employs a vacuum tube made especially for setting up oscillations and instead of having a low plate voltage it is energized with 350 volts.
— from The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

The man evidently found some difficulty in expressing himself without the assistance of profanity.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

He gave me what he doubtless intended to be a highly entertaining and spicy account of many of his escapades and exploits in town and country, appealing to me every few sentences as to what I should have said or done or thought in similar circumstances.
— from My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Strange thoughts for a young head shot through her: as, that it is possible for the sense of duty to counteract distaste; and that one may live a life apart from one's admirations and dislikes: she owned the singular strength of Sir Willoughby in outwearying: she asked herself how much she had gained by struggling:—every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force, and rendered her less able to get the clear vision of her prospects, as though it had sunk her deeper: the contrary of her intention to make each further step confirm her liberty.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

One way of viewing this story is that each of these musicians (except for some imaginary original artist, the musical source of the Nile) is a plagiarist and a pirate.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

Hast thou found No remedy, my England, for such woes?
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution