Everybody is born with good teeth, and everybody might keep them good by a {123} proper diet, and the avoidance of sweets and smoking.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

For your highnesses must know that, going a few days back to kiss her hands and receive her benediction, approbation, and permission for this third sally, I found her altogether a different being from the one I sought; I found her enchanted and changed from a princess into a peasant, from fair to foul, from an angel into a devil, from fragrant to pestiferous, from refined to clownish, from a dignified lady into a jumping tomboy, and, in a word, from Dulcinea del Toboso into a coarse Sayago wench."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Show the Force the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, and the Force—to a constable—will show you a piece of perfection, Mr Kibble.' That gentleman, with a very serious shake of his head, subscribed the article.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

25 Say I have made a perfect choyce, Satietie our Love may kill; Then give me but thy face and voyce, Mine eye and eare thou canst not fill.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Perchance my love, amid the childish band, Grateful for gifts the Holy Christmas gave her, Here meekly kissed the grandsire's withered hand.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

that true man!' 'And right was I,' she answered merrily, 'I, Who dreamed my knight the greatest knight of all.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

This appeared so clear to me now, that nothing was a greater satisfaction to me than that I had not been suffered to do a thing which I now saw so much reason to believe would have been no less a sin than that of wilful murder if I had committed it; and I gave most humble thanks on my knees to God, that He had thus delivered me from blood-guiltiness; beseeching Him to grant me the protection of His providence, that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay my hands upon them, unless I had a more clear call from Heaven to do it, in defence of my own life.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Ang kumbirsiyun sa mga Pilipinhun mauy tingúhà sa mga Kungkistadúris, The goal of the Conquistadores was the conversion of the Filipinos.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The object of the ritual worship was to compel the turbulent and malevolent kami to go out from human habitations to the mountain solitudes and rest there.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

I should not have conjectured him a man of ability either from his conversation or his appearance"; but "a stranger must be cautious in estimating the character of a Durani from his appearance," which caution he also found it necessary to exercise in the case of Dost Mahomed's corpulent brother, Mahomed Khan, the Governor of Ghazni.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

“To labor to commend a piece of work Which no man goes about to discommend, Would raise a jealous doubt that there did lurk Some secret doubt whereto the praise did tend: For when men know the goodness of the wine ’Tis needless for the host to have a sign.
— from Bacon and Shakspere by William Henry Burr

From early days the phantoms of the murdered have occasionally appeared to the living, and made known the guilty person or persons who committed the deed.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

So we started, but first I went down into a cabin and kneeling on my knees, thanked God for having brought me safe so far, and prayed Him and St. Hubert to protect me on my further wanderings, and if I died, to receive my soul.
— from The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

all [6] , In proper order, how to rise and fall; Woman's a Being, dubiously great, Never contented with a passive state; 80 With too much Knowledge to give Man the sway, With too much Pride his humours to obey, She hangs in doubt, [too] humble or [too] brave; In doubt to be a Mistress or a Slave; In doubt herself or Husband to controul; Born to be made a tyrant or a fool;
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

[ 162 ] Between these old cities, for whose sites European nations contended, stand the cities whose growth preëminently represents the Ohio valley; Cincinnati, the historic queen of the river; Louisville, the warder of the falls; the cities of the "Old National Road," Columbus, Indianapolis; the cities of the Blue Grass lands, which made Kentucky the goal of the pioneers; and the cities of that young commonwealth, whom the Ohio river by force of its attraction tore away from an uncongenial control by the Old Dominion, and joined to the social section where it belonged.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

He made believe that his offense was not serious, since it lay in words alone, and protested that he was perfectly willing to ask her pardon, provided he might kiss the girl afterward.
— from The Devil's Pool by George Sand

It has therefore occurred to me that it might be useful to write a book which, while avoiding too great insistence on purely technical details, should try to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and to indicate the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter, and the discussions on the nature of first principles, to which it has become, so to speak, the fashion of the present day to devote oneself.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

They are all agreed their object is to make known the Gospel, the message of salvation, to all to whom they obtain access, to explain its nature, and press its claims on their acceptance.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy