[260] An interesting account of the changes made in the Roman year by Numa is given in Plutarch's life of that king.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To a man who has to make his way in the world, these dear girls can always be useful in one fashion or another; never mind, if they repel your passion; at any rate, they are not offended with your declaration of it, and only look upon you with more favourable eyes in consequence of your misfortune.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

“If that is your line of argument, I acknowledge that you are right; but you had nothing to complain of, for I bore your blow in silence, and by my leaving the house you might know that it was my intention to respect you for the future.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Some people wash it in sugar and water, and some in coffee, to make it the right yellow colour; but I myself have a very good receipt for washing it in milk, which stiffens it enough, and gives it a very good creamy colour.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If not to answer, you might haply think Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty, Which fondly you would here impose on me; If to reprove you for this suit of yours, So season'd with your faithful love to me, Then, on the other side, I check'd my friends.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“I say,” he began to Ivan, “excuse me, I only mention it to remind you.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have been threatened, beaten, starved, until life has become at times such a misery that, but for the fact that at the worst it is dear to every man, and that our religion forbids it, I would have thrown myself into the river yonder and ended my wretched existence.
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

How did the men in the reports you read get into the planes that were about to crash?
— from Doomsday Eve by Robert Moore Williams

That frightened the maiden and she cried out: “Don’t throw me into the river, Yanechek, and I’ll find you your master’s eyes, I promise you I will!”
— from Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore

A. I am speaking more especially of those who captured me in the railroad yard, and carried me out in front of the depot.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

"He was respectful with the old and congenial with the young—always going and never tired, up early and late, of a chirruping sort of address and an equal temper, and while he appeared to be thrifty and money-making, he did all manner of good turns for the high and the humble; and, although everybody said he was the homeliest young man in the region, yet more village girls went to their front doors to see him than if he had been a showman coming to town to do feats of magic.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

But, as has been before observed, we have often days in winter milder than at the period of hybernating, and in which insects are so roused from their torpidity as to run about nimbly when molested in their retreats; yet though their irritability must have been increased by a two or three months inactivity and abstinence, they do not leave them, but quietly remain until a fresh accession of cold again induces insensibility.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

But you that travel as God’s messengers, if they receive you in the greater, shall they refuse you in the less?
— from A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by William Penn

"If that is your line of argument, I acknowledge that you are right; but you had nothing to complain of, for I bore your blow in silence, and by my leaving the house you might know that it was my intention to respect you for the future.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain by Giacomo Casanova

“My dearest cousin,” said the queen to him, “I ought to love you above every man in the realm; you have left all at my bidding, and are come to deliver me from prison.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot

His membership in the —— Regiment, years ago, had been a business move, and the service, though distinguished, had made him many valuable business connections, but all of Cornelius Bent's family knew that his heart and his soul were downtown, day and night, night and day.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs