M. Grimani congratulated me warmly on my good luck, and promised all his friendly care to secure a good boarding-house, to which I would go at the beginning of the year, and where I would wait for the bishop’s arrival.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CORNWALL. Come, my good lord, away. [ Exeunt all but Gloucester and Kent . ] GLOUCESTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For that virtue, [69] which was erst in the minds of the women of times past, those of our day have diverted to the adornment of the body, and she on whose back are to be seen the most motley garments and the most gaudily laced and garded and garnished with the greatest plenty of fringes and purflings and broidery deemeth herself worthy to be held of far more account than her fellows and to be honoured above them, considering not that, were it a question of who should load her back and shoul 44 ders with bravery, an ass would carry much more thereof than any of them nor would therefore be honoured for more than an ass.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He bends his long neck, and breathing loudly through his nose, makes a spoon out of a big crooked bit of wood; the other—a little scraggy, pock-marked peasant with an aged face, a scanty moustache, and a little goat’s beard—sits with his hands dangling loose on his knees, and without moving gazes listlessly at the light.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[2238] prout res nobis fluit, ita et animus se habet ; [2239] money gives life and soul.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ A thumping is heard off stage and the music grows louder and louder.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

He looked like a wax figure from the Musee Grevin, like a strange and fantastic caricature of the charming young man of fashion plates, and he danced with visible effort, clumsily, with a comical impetuosity.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the interval, Miss Havisham, in a fantastic way, had put some of the most beautiful jewels from her dressing-table into Estella's hair, and about her bosom and arms; and I saw even my guardian look at her from under his thick eyebrows, and raise them a little, when her loveliness was before him, with those rich flushes of glitter and color in it.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

màmasdàn get looked at 88(7) .
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

It is but counterfeit, my gracious lord, And therefore, may it please your majesty To set your hand unto this precept here, By which we'll cause him forthwith to appear, And answer this by order of the law.
— from Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

The more a man gets like a beast, the more has he of the beast's lot of happy contentment in this world.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Grandpa Ladle led off with his oldest daughter, Madam Gravy Ladle, and the little salts stood at the bottom prancing like real children impatient for their turn.
— from Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3) by Louisa May Alcott

The grey-headed old man gliding like a ghost into her room and acting the thief while he supposed her fast asleep, then bearing off his prize and hanging over it with the ghastly exultation she had witnessed, was worse—immeasurably worse, and far more dreadful, for the moment, to reflect upon—than anything her wildest fancy could have suggested.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The mountain girl looked at her almost with pity—as if for once she understood something which her instructress did not.
— from Azalea at Sunset Gap by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

“And he let me go—oh, let me go like a fox out of a trap!
— from The Money Master, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Among the multitude of great men assembled on this occasion, no one did more or was nearer and dearer in the hearts of the people than the man who mastered mathematics, Greek, Latin, and law, while a “hireling” at the Kanawha Salt Works; the man who did his reading at night by [292] the light of the furnace or a “log-cabin luminary,” a lard lamp; the man who received the first collegiate degree of A.M. ever issued in the North-west; the orator of the day, Hon.
— from The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio; or, Glimpses of Pioneer Life by N. E. (Nelson Edward) Jones