Fasten in, from the right side, a rather finer thread than the one the original web is made of, and make a few stitches over the existing ones, in the row you are about to complete.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

"Well," he said with a sigh, "I'm not much of a magician, as I said; but if you will come to me tomorrow morning, I will stuff your head with brains.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But he believed there are Gods; nor have I ever seen any one 240 who was more exceedingly afraid of what he declared ought to be no objects of fear, namely, death and the Gods, with the apprehensions of which the common rank of people are very little affected; but he says that the minds of all mortals are terrified by them.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

You may not make quite so much money, but you will be more of a man, and manhood is above all riches, overtops all titles , and character is greater than any career .
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

You have worn my mother out and made a slave of her, my sister is hopelessly crushed, while I...” “It’s not your business to teach me,” said his father.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I will live with you like a father, if you are not in a position to give me marks of a more ardent affection.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But now he is unspeakably miserable, for he has been guilty of the greatest crimes: in the first place he invited his uncle and master, Alcetas, to come to him, under the pretence that he would restore to him the throne which Perdiccas has usurped, and after entertaining him and his son Alexander, who was his own cousin, and nearly of an age with him, and making them drunk, he threw them into a waggon and carried them off by night, and slew them, and got both of them out of the way; and when he had done all this wickedness he never discovered that he was the most miserable of all men, and was very far from repenting: shall I tell you how he showed his remorse?
— from Gorgias by Plato

Without any poetry, or gesticulating in imitation of such poetry, actors were sent for from Etruria, dancing to the measures of a musician, and exhibited, according to the Tuscan fashion, movements by no means ungraceful.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

For do but consider which is the greater risk:—Would you rather test a man of a morose and savage nature, which is the source of ten thousand acts of injustice, by making bargains with him at a risk to yourself, or by having him as a companion at the festival of Dionysus?
— from Laws by Plato

"If you come to people of quality," said Sancho, "there's nobody more so than my master; but the calling he follows does not allow of larders or store-rooms; we lay ourselves down in the middle of a meadow, and fill ourselves with acorns or medlars."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Of course he's not much of a man as yet, but he is your own son.
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

"I'll take the liberty of saying to Monsieur le Baron that I phlebotomized Perdreau last week and Mascareau only a month ago, without any complaint from them."
— from Gerfaut — Volume 2 by Charles de Bernard

It lasted a minute, or a minute and a half, for there seemed to be some orders to be given in the passage, and some questions to be asked; and then the door of the room opened, and a servant, in a well-laced jacket, announced "Lord Hadley," and "Mr. Dudley."
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He was accompanied to the palace by Lord Ochiltree, and some other gentlemen; but John Erskine of Dun, a man of a mild and gentle temper, was the only one allowed to enter Mary’s apartment along with Knox.
— from Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

To work was the province of Moors, Jews, and other heretics; of the Marani or accursed, miscreants and descendants of miscreants; of the Sanbeniti or infamous, wretches whose ancestors had been convicted by the Holy Inquisition of listening, however secretly, to the Holy Scriptures as expounded by other lips than those of Roman priests.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

I became so unaccountably, and lethargically drowsy, that, in spite of every effort of mine to the contrary, I fell fast asleep in the midst of a most animated harangue of the good Manuel, upon the various perfections of his lovely daughter—a strange subject for a lover to sleep upon; but so it was.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

Howard was struck, as he often had been before, to see how the larger questions of principle passed almost unnoticed, while the smaller points, such as the wording of a notice, were eagerly and humorously debated by men of acute minds and easy speech.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

Much of a muchness , alike, very much the same thing.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

These words set the little vine to thinking; and when she had thought for a long time she spoke to the daisy about it, and the daisy called in the violet, and the three little ones had a very serious conference; but, having talked it all over, they came to the conclusion that it was as much of a mystery as ever.
— from A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field