One may also discover their peculiarities in their jokes; for they are taught never to talk at random, nor to utter a syllable that does not contain some thought.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

If you will have the decency to leave my room—er—this room—until I can get up and dress I shall not transgress upon your hospitality"—Rilla was killingly sarcastic—"any longer.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It went through the men like lightning—but to inspire, not to unnerve.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

What the origin is of the semblance of wit which accompanies such representations is a particular question which we need not touch upon at this time.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

“I am sure you’re not telling us everything; I am sure you did something...” said Natásha and pausing added, “something fine?”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Shall I venture to say further, that by coming so near to understand a little, they are much wider of the whole scope than before.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But Ráma ceased not to upbraid, His brother for untimely aid, And thus, while anguish wrung his breast, The chief with eager question pressed: “Why, Lakshmaṇ, didst thou hurry hence And leave my wife without defence?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[83] –Not every Union, but the object of the Union, not the uniting under common laws, but the import of those laws, give the soul the wings of patriotism; for otherwise every Hansa, every trade-league, were a Pythagorean Society and would create Spartans.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

The nakedness, the unshamed nakedness, of the man and the woman was innocency.
— from The Patriarchs Being Meditations upon Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job; The Canticles, Heaven and Earth. by J. G. (John Gifford) Bellett

There were no trees upon it, excepting a few near to the well.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

You do not love me; if you did, you would not Thus urge your satisfaction in my shame; At best, I see you would not love me long,
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

“Pretty nice pines,” he said; and he put his hand on the one next to us with a sort of appreciation that interested me.
— from An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

Mr. C. says, "I would advise an adherence to ordinary services ; for these being evidently scriptural and reasonable," &c. It is a pity he does not tell us what are the "ordinary services that are scriptural and reasonable."
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

"It did not take us many seconds to determine upon a plan of operations," he continued, "and then we crept toward the house under 295 cover of the bushes and out buildings, telling our friendly darkey to stay where he was till the trouble was over, and no
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon

Notwithstanding this unequivocal specimen of the usage which they had to look for in that country, they went forward in the execution of their errand.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley