Now let's not get rhetorical with one another.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

She, too, had some tens of thousands of acres, a great many sheep, a stud farm and a great deal of money, but she did not “go rounds,” but lived at home in a splendid house and grounds, about which Ivan Ivanitch, who had been more than once at the countess’s on business, and other acquaintances told many marvellous tales; thus, for instance, they said that in the countess’s drawing-room, where the portraits of all the kings of Poland hung on the walls, there was a big table-clock in the form of a rock, on the rock a gold horse with diamond eyes, rearing, and on the horse the figure of a rider also of gold, who brandished his sword to right and to left whenever the clock struck.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A peasant can give no better reason for the stopping of any clock or watch than to say, that commonly it does not go right: But an artizan easily perceives, that the same force in the spring or pendulum has always the same influence on the wheels; but fails of its usual effect, perhaps by reason of a grain of dust, which puts a stop to the whole movement.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

May I ask if your father-in-law is not going round the town buying up all the shares in the Baths?
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

All which persons and things, hurled together as we see; Pallas Athene, busy with Flandre; patriotic Versailles National Guards, short of ammunition, and deserted by d'Estaing their Colonel, and commanded by Lecointre their Major; then caracoling Bodyguards, sour, dispirited, with their buckskins wet; and finally this flowing sea of indignant Squalor,—may they not give rise to occurrences?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Scream not, grey rider of the sable cloud, Thy banquet is prepared!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

the nymph in sorrow's pomp appears, Her eyes half-languishing, half drowned in tears; Now livid pale her cheeks, now glowing red On her heaved bosom hung her drooping head, Which with a sigh she raised, and thus she said: "For ever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my fav'rite curl away; Happy!
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

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— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

a. governing Llywodraethu, v. to govern Llywodraethwr, n. governor, ruler Llywy, a. of passing beauty Llywydd, n. a director L
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Jase was calkerlatin' to put it on again, but he ain't never got 'round to it.
— from Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long

But when the test came, when the time for courageous words was succeeded by the time for deeds, the shrinking from action that, since the nation grew rich, has become part of the education of the women of the classes which shelter and coddle their women, caused Adelaide to seem feeble indeed beside her brother.
— from The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips

i., p. 358; ed. 1868); Bethlehem is generally translated "house of bread," and the doubt arises from the Hebrew letters being originally unpointed, and the points—equivalent to vowel sounds—being inserted in later times; this naturally gives rise to great latitude of interpretation, the vowels being inserted whenever the writer or translator thinks they ought to come in, or where the traditionary reading requires them (see Part 1., pp. 13, and 31, 32).
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

This privation, however, he has no great reason to lament.
— from Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

On that evening, Captain Nemo ought to open the taps of his reservoirs, and let some pure air into the interior of the Nautilus; without this precaution we could not get rid of the sense of suffocation.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

“Yes, it was a very cheap imitation of native goods,” replied Joyce, with a smile.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

We know that the late Miss Glasson entertained a very strong affection for Ralph Jephson, and always intended to make him her devisee and legatee—she had no power to dispose of her property except by will—but she was living with her nephew, George Ralph Jephson, and had been bedridden for some time.
— from By the Barrow River, and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy

This fact does not greatly redound to the acumen of the professor nor to the credit of his class-room methods, and what followed gives a curious notion of the easy-going system which then prevailed.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

Now good reward him, May he never want it, to comfort still the poor, in a good hour.
— from Beggars Bush: A Comedy From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) by John Fletcher