With their irons they raised the lid, which was very heavy, and propped it up so as a man might enter; which being done, quoth one, 'Who shall go in?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when they will meet my eyes, when it will haunt my thoughts, no more.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nature meant me to be, on the whole, a good man, Miss Eyre; one of the better kind, and you see I am not so.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Every moment I met mandarins, either borne in litters or on foot, followed by a crowd of slaves carrying various articles; some, yellow or scarlet parasols, more or less large according to the [201] rank of the person; others, boxes with betel.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

A sharp perpendicular rock rises above the level of the mountain, where the African princes deposited their wives and treasure; and a proverb is familiar to the Arabs, that the man may eat fire who dares to attack the craggy cliffs and inhospitable natives of Mount Aurasius.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"And the Lord," he saith, "will seek Him a man," meaning either David or the Mediator of the New Testament, [393] who was figured in the chrism with which David also and his offspring was anointed.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For that he, being eternal, and existing throughout all matter, makes everything.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

SYN: Marriage, matrimony, espousals, nuptials, coverture, match.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily: and the law, besides, authorises, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Here again is a sort of lounging dress to perform my morning exercises in.
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

My mistake was one which a more experienced eye than mine might easily make in the dust and confusion of such a chase.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

We wish to call attention, however, to another method—by no means a new one—of augmenting the military resources of the country, and to throw out some hints for rendering that method more efficacious than it may hitherto have been deemed.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

Prompted by some preserving instinct of self-defense, I broke through the spell that had hitherto held me immovable, and flung my now dying torch at the creature who menaced my existence.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Miss Minchin exclaimed.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"At all events," she said when she met my eyes, and speaking as if there had been no break in our conversation, "you are rather a good joke.
— from The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower

I lived through a time of the strangest, most marvelous emotions one could dream of.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

So far he had encountered fewer obstacles and made more encouraging discoveries than had fallen to the lot of any other Western Australian explorer; and now, the desert had drawn its forbidding hand suddenly across his track, and sternly ordered him to halt.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

DAVENPORT Marian must exert her good sense.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

"Hundred fifty miles, maybe a little more," Major Eddy answered in a dull voice.
— from Progress Report by Alex Apostolides

Lady Hamlet Vernon, though ambitious, was a person attached to no party; and though the love of power was predominant in her nature, it was for the sake of its own exercise, without any reference to any political side of the question: she only saw, therefore, in Lord Albert's appointment, the first step towards a career which would involve him at once in absorbing interests, and leave his mind more easy to be diverted into a channel in accordance with her wishes, and more likely to be drawn off from that attachment which was destructive of them.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady