“No, God forbid,” said the cardinal; “only, at what hour was he with you?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

As we see every day in the case of talkative people: if they wish to be loved, they are hated; if they desire to please, they bore; when they think they are admired, they are really laughed at; they spend, and get no gain from so 230 doing; they injure their friends, benefit their enemies, and ruin themselves.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“Why, we are not going fishing!” said I. “No,” returned Wemmick, “but I like to walk with one.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

With faded blooms each brook within Whose waters moved no gleamy fin, Stole sadly through the forest dell Mourning the dame it loved so well.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

His love for his ill-gotten wife seems to be quite genuine, and there is no ground for suspecting him of having used her as a mere means to the crown.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

n girl friend (slang).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

23 There is no ground for supposing that, when St Paul wrote his Epistle to the Colossians, he had ever visited the church in which he evinces so deep an interest.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It is ‘music with her silver sound’ because musicians have no gold for sounding.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know .
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

" "Nay, good father," said Robin, "I would not burden thee with aught of mine but myself.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

By making plain things, in debate, By art, perplex'd, and intricate For nothing goes for sense or light 1355 That will not with old rules jump right: As if rules were not in the schools Deriv'd from truth, but truth from rules.
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

This was their counter, and on it they had arranged their stock of goods—a little pile of unripe strawberries, another of currants, a heap of pebbles to represent nuts, gravel for sugar, and earth for tea.
— from The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

They do not grow from seeds or bulbs.
— from The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow

‘I have no great fear,’ she said, looking at him proudly.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The playwright of the age has figured Indigence as the daughter of Luxury;[110] and a still more terrible child was to be born in the Avarice which sprang from the useless cravings and fierce competitions of the time.[111] The desire to get and to hold had ever been a Roman vice; but, it had also been the unvarying assumption of the Roman State, and the conviction of the Roman official—a conviction so deeply seated and spontaneous as to form no ground for self-congratulation that the lust for acquisition should limit itself to the domain of private right, and never cross the rigid barrier which divided that domain from the sphere of wealth and power which the city had committed to its servant as a solemn trust.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

A nasty, greasy fish soup was prepared, various pates chauds and fricasses and, most important of all, several bottles of champagne had been procured and put into ice.
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

She is not dead; no, good father, she is alive, and will now just begin to live indeed; the finest, merriest fool's paradise of a life--as long as it lasts.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Walter, I hope you bear me no grudge for stepping into your shoes."
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

There is, so far as I can see, no ground for supposing that there is or ever can be a body of precise truths at all capable of comparison with the exact sciences.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

S S. A. Nutt Geranium , for south and west window-boxes,
— from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett