Sancho, however, happening to observe the signal of the white cloth, exclaimed, "May I die, if my master has not overcome the wild beasts, for he is calling to us."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Oft in her absence mimic Fansie wakes To imitate her; but misjoyning shapes, Wilde work produces oft, and most in dreams, Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

How The Procession Is Drilled The organist must always be at the rehearsal, as one of the most important details is marking the time of the wedding march.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I sit motionless thinking of nothing, feeling no desires; if a book lies before me I draw it mechanically towards me and read without interest.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Oft in her absence mimick Fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Oft in her absence mimic Fansie wakes 110 To imitate her; but misjoyning shapes, Wilde work produces oft, and most in dreams, Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

I may add that taste has local rules which make it dependent in many respects on the country we are in, its manners, government, institutions; it has other rules which depend upon age, sex, and character, and it is in this sense that we must not dispute over matters of taste.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For a bird, success in the attainment of reproduction does not merely imply the successful discharge of the sexual function; much more is demanded; it must find somewhere to build its nest and to lay its eggs, it must shield its young from extremes of temperature and protect them from enemies, and it must be in a position to supply them with food at regular intervals.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

After acquainting himself with the foregoing, Captain José María Halcon inquired what would be the minimum importation duty in Manila for articles proceeding from Sulu, and asked for instructions in regard to the importation of arms and ammunition into Sulu by our ships.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

I thought with astonishment, even with rapture, of the attention and kindness towards me I discovered in Mr. Falkland, through all the roughness of his manner.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

This panel, for a work made in distemper, is much extolled, and in truth it was wrought with good design and executed with extraordinary diligence.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Giorgio Vasari

Among our most important deficiencies in material were artillery, aviation, and tanks.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

'That is the Greek church, a triangle like all true religion,' I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then, as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles 'it spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome.'
— from Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Like things have been done in Sassoun, in Marash, in Diarbekir, in Melatia, in Kharpoot, in Van, in Erzeroum,—in hundreds of towns and villages with strange names we have never heard.
— from By Far Euphrates: A Tale by Deborah Alcock

Although he gave me good advice, he put what seemed to me insurmountable difficulties in my way.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

First the great market, in Domesday bringing in customary dues to the King of twenty shillings—and what twenty shillings means in Domesday in mere market dues one can appreciate by considering that all the dues from Old Windsor only amounted to ten pounds.
— from The Historic Thames by Hilaire Belloc