I went to the Bedford Coffee-house in the evening, where I met my friends, from thence proceeded to the play, and afterwards carried them home to my lodgings, where we supped in great good humour.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

That which is least stimulative to appetite, leaves the mind most free for foreign considerations.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Refresh thy weary limbs, and eat My mountain fruits for they are sweet.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Dear Monsieur Eugene, I am suffering so now, that a man might die of the pain; but it is nothing to be compared with the pain I endured when Anastasie made me feel, for the first time, that I had said something stupid.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter, shade in summer, quale sopor fessis in gramine , meat and drink to him that is hungry or athirst; Democritus's collyrium is not so sovereign to the eyes as this is to the heart; good words are cheerful and powerful of themselves, but much more from friends, as so many props, mutually sustaining each other like ivy and a wall, which Camerarius hath well illustrated in an emblem.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It happened in this way: El Uchali, the king of Algiers, a daring and successful corsair, having attacked and taken the leading Maltese galley (only three knights being left alive in it, and they badly wounded), the chief galley of John Andrea, on board of which I and my company were placed, came to its relief, and doing as was bound to do in such a case, I leaped on board the enemy’s galley, which, sheering off from that which had attacked it, prevented my men from following me, and so I found myself alone in the midst of my enemies, who were in such numbers that I was unable to resist; in short I was taken, covered with wounds; El Uchali, as you know, sirs, made his escape with his entire squadron, and I was left a prisoner in his power, the only sad being among so many filled with joy, and the only captive among so many free; for there were fifteen thousand Christians, all at the oar in the Turkish fleet, that regained their longed-for liberty that day.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And in these problems, shrink, my Memmius, far From yielding faith to that notorious talk: That all things inward to the centre press; And thus the nature of the world stands firm With never blows from outward, nor can be Nowhere disparted—since all height and depth Have always inward to the centre pressed (If thou art ready to believe that aught Itself can rest upon itself ); or that The ponderous bodies which be under earth Do all press upwards and do come to rest Upon the earth, in some way upside down, Like to those images of things we see At present through the waters.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Wherefore I humbly pray you that this which hath pleased God and me may find favour with you and that you will vouchsafe us your benison, in order that with this, as with more assurance of His approof whose Vicar you are, we may live and ultimately die together.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

There is another and much more formidable form in which the Hunger-demon appears in Demonology.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Meanwhile men fought furiously about the body.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The long-accustom’d only new, And the untried common; and, whereas An equal seeming danger was Of likeness lacking joy and force, Or difference reaching to divorce, Now can the finish’d lover see Marvel of me most far from me, Whom without pride he may admire, Without Narcissus’ doom desire, Serve without selfishness, and love ‘Even as himself,’ in sense above Niggard ‘as much,’ yea, as she is The only part of him that’s his.
— from The Victories of Love, and Other Poems by Coventry Patmore

"Well, then, Miss Grandison, I have no option but to inform you, with all the sympathy any man must feel for a woman in your position, that Monsieur de Courtois has met with an accident.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

I will accept your late offer, to save my mother from further suffering, and to gain a home for her declining years."
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

Then to myself in particular he added: "Why stand gaping there?" This caused a keen sense of danger to strike home in my heart, and to make my feet feel as though already the ice was escaping their tread.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

"Probably that's also why I'm a chauffeur while you're an editor," he added, and Miss Destrey's little nose [Pg 63] and long curve of dark eyelash, seen by me in profile, expressed the sympathy which one young soul in misfortune must feel for another.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Forgive me, my friends, for an old man has his weakness.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

Yet still there is so much mistaken pride impressed upon her features as makes me fear for the part she will take in the interview.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

“Faix, we’ll have to see th’ Jews again, me lord,” said the man dolefully; “they’re afther bein’ me most familiar friends, the jewels!”
— from My Lady Clancarty Being the True Story of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady Elizabeth Spencer by Mary Imlay Taylor