But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He often receives presents, but never gives any. Plaut.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Suddenly Norma gave a piteous whine; the reptile had bitten her tongue.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

for yet he views the light, Nor glides a phantom through the realms of night.'
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Dáan na kaáyung kalsunísa naglanut na gánì ang panaptun, These trousers are very old.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

nga gitirúhan ang Prisidinti?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Hence the agreement of politics and morals is only possible in a federative union, a union which is necessarily given a priori , according to the principles of right.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

This prize that I got for not getting a prize did not do me good.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

POWER, a large quantity.—Formerly Irish , but now general; “a POWER of money.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

For instance M’Auley’s down there: n. g. as position.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

So it was, that for the four first centuries in Polish history, prowess in the field rendered the nation glorious and passionately fond of war.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

They still come to the City and settle, enjoying its freedom, and in the next generation are pure English.
— from London by Walter Besant

"The Highland Rogue" gives the following account of one of his exploits:— [111] "Rob Roy's creditors now grew almost past hopes of recovering their money.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The Indians were back now, going about picking wood for the fire as if nothing whatever had happened.
— from Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco by George Manville Fenn

The barrels afforded little or no grip, and pinned down by the rush of tide refused to be thrown clear.
— from Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

All of them, however, had the advantage of constant supervision, and of not giving any profit to the superintendent.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

I cannot now give a particular account of this meeting, though it was an event in my life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Certainly strong administrations make 164 nations great and prosperous.
— from The Elm-tree on the Mall by Anatole France

"What can you expect," asked a fisherman, "of a man who says there's no God and paints his pictures with a knife?"
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

When Percie, Thornie, and Co. had respectively nodded, grinned, and presented their shoulder rather than their hand, as their father named them to their new kinsman, Rashleigh stepped forward, and welcomed me to Osbaldistone Hall, with the air and manner of a man of the world.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott