So long and so queer, and as it came nearer It grew every moment longer and queerer!
— from Christmas Carols and Midsummer Songs by Various

Fräulein Perini, feeling that she must speak for Frau Ceres as if knowing what she thought, looked at her smilingly and observed, "One seldom meets with so perfect a chevalier as the Baron von Pranken, at least not in Germany; even more than the countess Bella he has-—-" "I pray you," Herr Sonnenkamp here interposed, and his countenance had the expression of a bull-dog trying to be tender, "I pray you not to praise others at the expense of the countess; the ladies are bewitched with Herr von Pranken, and for my part, I am with the countess Bella."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

And naturally, it greveth every man to erre and be deceived.
— from A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours by Giovanni Della Casa

In Glasgow, a tambourer of ordinary skill could not in general earn more than five or six shillings a week by constant application; but to a labouring artisan, who had 288 several daughters, even these low wages formed a source of great wealth.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

I do, but tell it not in Gath; every man has these fanciful superstitions, coming, going, but yet enduring; only most men are so wise (or the poet in them so dead) that they keep their follies for themselves.—I am, yours very truly, Robert Louis Stevenson .
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

“They are coming now, in good earnest, Monkbarns.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

The Ring Doves, whereof there are great numbers in Gilolo , eat many of those Cloves which grow Old upon the Tree, then flying they purge in the Air with the Motion, and from their Excrements dropping on the Ground Clove Trees grow up.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

"They are coming now, in good earnest, Monkbarns.
— from The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Walter Scott