He in turn, reflecting upon what he had heard, transformed it into most delightful poetry, and by echoing it back to the monks in more melodious sounds made his teachers his listeners.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The boy is well, and offers to be searched The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester The monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike her The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was my intent my marriage should be kept secret, and therefore Heloise retired among the nuns of Argenteuil.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

I remember well one gaunt Nimrod who would catch up a leaf by the roadside and play a strain on it wilder and more melodious, if my memory serves me, than any hunting-horn.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

On the highest altar of power the most intoxicated man must stand, the ecstatic.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" "You despise me, and if only you knew how miserable it makes me," she said uncertainly, knowing beforehand that he would not believe her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In this sense the biographer of Hadrian says in the above–quoted passage that at the limites he stipitibus magnis in modum muralis saepis funditus iactis atque conexis barbaros separavit .
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

I have my watch in my boots, and my money in my mouth.” She would creep beside him, and in these early hours began her education.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

“The Magic is making me strong!
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

An' den w'en I heared 'bout his goin' ter de lawyer ter fin' out 'bout a defoce, an' w'en I heared w'at de lawyer said 'bout my not bein' his wife 'less he wanted me, it made me so mad, I made up my min' dat ef he ever put his foot on my do'sill ag'in, I 'd shet de do' in his face an' tell 'im ter go back whar he come f'm."
— from The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

This is more especially the case with the romances composed or turned into prose in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries; for in the earlier ones the Fairy Mythology is much more sparingly introduced.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley