One way I like this well; But being widow, and my Gloucester with her, May all the building in my fancy pluck Upon my hateful life.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Forest , sb. forest, MD; forestes , pl. , PP.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

He informed me that he must first pay a visit to Jena, where he had an appointment to fight a duel.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Confess that everywhere, in shop, street, church, theatre, bar-room, official chair, are pervading flippancy and vulgarity, low cunning, infidelity—everywhere the youth puny, impudent, foppish, prematurely ripe—everywhere an abnormal libidinousness, unhealthy forms, male, female, painted, padded, dyed, chignon'd, muddy complexions, bad blood, the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceas'd, shallow notions of beauty, with a range of manners, or rather lack of manners, (considering the advantages
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I will go away and send him the money from Petersburg.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nihil enim est inane, nihil arcessitum; puro tamen fonti quam magno flumini propior."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I like to have my friends' pictures even though I cannot see them.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

"May find, perhaps not."
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Then had come an incident that Everson already know of: a stranger with divers aliases beseeching me for private interviews in M. Zola's interest, a request which I ultimately granted, and which led to a rather curious experience.
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

At one o’clock on Sunday, the 20th December, the column was marching along about a mile and a half from a place known as Bronker’s Spruit, and thirty-eight miles from Pretoria, when suddenly a large number of mounted Boers were seen in loose formation on the left side of the road.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In the chronicle of Richard Hovenden it is stated that Monasterium in Eboraca Civitate Succensum est nono Kalendas Maii Feria prima —that is to say, that a church was burnt down in the city of York on Sunday the 23rd of April 741
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of York A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock

I am still resolved upon matrimony, if my fair perverse will accept of me.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

Leaving the localities of their birth, they will move from place to place, spreading a desolation as consuming as fire in their path.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

“… Yes, Your Imperial Highness, your consummate generalship at Verdun undoubtedly achieved an historic victory over the French; but you will forgive me for pointing out that your casualties were at least twice as numerous as theirs, and that the ground which you captured has since been regained.… Submarines ?
— from The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England by Ian Hay

The wounded man escorted him even to the outer door, not so much from politeness, as in order that he might not hold forth to the whole domestic company on the subject, but keep the occurrence absolutely to himself, except in houses where there was a beard and an ear.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

but it was the only time I ever made my feelings public.
— from Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen

Her mad fancy passed, she might have loved me again—she did love me once!
— from Miles Tremenhere: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 2 by Annette Marie Maillard