Again, in the line, {nu upsilon nu / delta epsilon / mu /epsilon omega nu / omicron lambda iota gamma iota gamma upsilon sigma / tau epsilon / kappa alpha iota / omicron upsilon tau iota delta alpha nu omicron sigma / kappa alpha iota / alpha epsilon iota kappa eta sigma), the difference will be felt if we substitute the common words, {nu upsilon nu / delta epsilon / mu / epsilon omega nu / mu iota kappa rho omicron sigma / tau epsilon / kappa alpha iota / alpha rho theta epsilon nu iota kappa omicron sigma / kappa alpha iota / alpha epsilon iota delta gamma sigma}.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

“I was driving past Yusúpov’s house just now,” said Berg with a laugh, “when the steward, a man I know, ran out and asked me whether I wouldn’t buy something.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I saw General Lee only once after this, and that was when he visited Charleston not long before he died. Engaged as he was with visitors, he gave me, in kindly remembrance of my services with his nephew, General Fitzhugh Lee, a private interview, in order that my wife, Virginia, might be presented to him.
— from Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 by Francis Warrington Dawson

But in spite of the renewed faith in my sanity this discovery brought me, I kept right on perspiring.
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel

Wal, when Hairoil up and left me, I kept right on a-studyin’.
— from Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates

Margaret, I know, receives on Sundays.
— from The Hoyden by Duchess

Should the boat strike the point, she would very likely be dashed to pieces, but if we could manage to get hold of her as she drove by on one side, we might, I knew, rescue our friends and save her.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

He was Vicar of Meopham, in Kent, Rector of Mixbury, Canon [Pg 16] of St. Paul's, and Prebendary of Ealdstreet, in 1508; and Rector of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, in 1512.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

If you are a man, marry me in kind remembrance of the assistance rendered.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri

The Christian religion has done everything it could to heap ignominy upon woman: head-coverings in church, practical tolerance of male infidelity, kingly repudiation of queens, compulsory child-bearing, and a multiplicity of other injustices.
— from The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George

That was the longest Sunday I ever knew; and then when the evening came I kept expecting you every moment; I kept rushing out of the front door to look for you.
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

It is a reassuring picture, this of the two men in khaki, rifle on shoulder, but swinging from the deadly barrels berried mistletoe, so rich in suggestion of the happiness of Christmases when the scourge of war was not upon the nations.
— from The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 by Various