Promptly at nine o'clock the next morning the green whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Whoever may like to convince himself how Kant's disciples, little by little, totally forgot and ignored the real nature of the foundation and derivation which their master originally gave to the moral law, should read a very interesting essay in Reinhold's Beitrage zur Uebersicht der Philosophie
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

On May 19 the plaintiff wrote as follows: 'I did not mean to say that if you should exceed the sum named in my letter to you by ten or twenty or even fifty pounds there would be any difficulty between us.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Or whereas no man likes to be miserable, is he yet pleased to be merciful?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"How dare you come and look at me like that without being sent for? Answer!" After looking at me calmly for half a minute, he began turning round again.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

librado, -a , freed; —— a sí mismo , left to one’s own devices.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"She that fain would fly, she shall quickly follow, She that now rejects, yet with gifts shall woo thee, She that heeds thee not, soon shall love to madness, Love thee, the loth one!"
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Secondly, that a portrait-painter can enable a mourning lady to possess a good likeness of her absent lover, but that the portrait- painter cannot, and who shall— "Restore the scenes in which they met and parted?" The natural answer would have been—Why the scene-painter to be sure!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

there’s a fellow whose soul is made like the other one’s body!”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Cuando me desangraba por cuatro cisuras que me hice en pies y manos, la tripulación del Grande Esberrer , que había 20 desembarcado en otra rada de la isla del Nordeste, me encontró tendido en tierra y me salvó la vida....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

234 A month later the city authorities again consulted the king as to his wishes.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

This Matter, I may probably set right another Time, and only observe for the present, that the Pyrates at Sea, have the same Sagacity with Robbers at Land; as the latter understand what Roads are most frequented, and where it is most likely to meet with Booty, so the former know what Latitude to lie in, in order to intercept Ships; and as the Pyrates happen to be in want of Provisions, Stores, or any particular Lading, they cruise accordingly for such Ships, and are morally certain of meeting with them; and by the same Reason, if the Men of War cruise in those Latitudes, they might be as sure of finding the Pyrates, as the Pyrates are to find the Merchant Ships; and if the Pyrates are not to be met with by the Men of War in such a Latitude, then surely down the same Latitude may the Merchant Ships arrive safely to their Port.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Wherefore wail not for these my present woes, But, drawing nigh, my coming fortunes hear, 280 That ye may learn the whole tale to the end.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

A month later the Saturday Review was strong in contemptuous criticism of the "promiscuous democracy" of the North [1330] .
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

"What do you think about it, yourself, Mrs. Lorimer?" "That he knows your possibilities much better than I," she answered evasively.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

They were called "publicans," and it was thought that no one could be much lower than a publican.
— from The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford

He gave me letters to the Majesty of the King our Lord, to whom also the Lord Duke of Sesa wrote letters of recommendation; and he also gave me letters to other princes and councillors of the court of Spain, with the means of proceeding thither.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

And both mistress and maid laughed the moment they parted company.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

“I must look to the poor beast before I take anything myself;” and so saying he left the room, none wishing to gainsay anything he desired to do.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever