[201] There is not a syllable in Macbeth to imply that they are anything but women.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“I have been looking for work,” he said, “for the last two months and cannot find any, and I have not a sou in my pocket.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Vague and wayward his loves may have been; but they partook of the strength of his nature, and sometimes, it may be, would by no means become music, so that the comely order of his days was quite put out: par che amaro ogni mio dolce io senta.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

from 'negotiis,' Saith Horace; the great little poet 's wrong; His other maxim, 'Noscitur a sociis,' Is much more to the purpose of his song; Though even that were sometimes too ferocious, Unless good company be kept too long; But, in his teeth, whate'er their state or station, Thrice happy they who have an occupation!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The last cause which frequently renders a democratic government dearer than any other is, that a democracy does not always succeed in moderating its expenditure, because it does not understand the art of being economical.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He drew near and said, "I must be leaving you.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I was a fool, do you see, as you are now, and so I married this woman.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Affrighted at the prospect, he started from his seat, exclaiming, in the most unconnected strain of distraction and despair, “Have I then nourished a serpent in my bosom!
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Not a single individual must be compromised.
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

In Elasmobranchii the sheath of the notochord undergoes a more complicated series of changes, which result first of all in the formation of a definite unsegmented cartilaginous tube [199] round the notochord, and subsequently (in most forms) in the formation of true vertebral bodies.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

A division between the natural and supernatural in Mark is purely arbitrary, because the supernatural is an essential part of the history.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

Upon his neck and shoulders it merged with a very light reddish brown, and on his rump it became a patch much lighter, though not white.
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell

It is incredible that one whom I loved should bring dishonour upon my name and shame into my house!”
— from Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 2 by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

I am now absolutely settled into my little "hole" in the country, as you call it.
— from A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

JONATHAN PARKER Was a Roxbury farmer, a "high Son of Liberty," who safely brought through the British lines on the Neck, and secreted in Muddy Pond Woods, the two cannon which, by a clever stratagem, had been taken from the gun-house, on Boston common, at noon-day.
— from Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake