[114] Amongst many other children, both male and female, he had a daughter called Alatiel, who, by report of all who saw her, was the fairest woman to be seen in the world in those days, and having, in a great defeat he had inflicted upon a vast multitude of Arabs who were come upon him, been wonder-well seconded by the King of Algarve, [115] had, at his request, given her to him to wife, of especial favour; wherefore, embarking her aboard a ship well armed and equipped, with an honourable company of men and ladies and store of rich and sumptuous gear and furniture, he despatched her to him, commending her to God.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I’m an old man, a lonely worthless old man.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You owe me, at least, a hearing.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Indeed, the practice itself has been adopted principally by the House of Lords, the members of which are less busy and fond of meddling, and less jealous of the importance of their individual voices, than those of the elective House.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

There were about twenty old maples and lime-trees in it; there was one fir-tree, and all the rest were fruit-trees: cherries, apples, pears, horse-chestnuts, silvery olive-trees. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I can never love any other man as long as I live.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And sin ther helpeth noon avysement 1300 To letten it, lat it passe out of minde; And lat us shape a bettre wey to finde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The victorious though motley bands of Tarik and Musa asserted, by the name of Spaniards, their original claim of conquest; yet they allowed their brethren of Egypt to share their establishments of Murcia and Lisbon.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

After this I landed at the head of the cove, and walked across the narrow isthmus that disjoins it from the sea, or rather from another cove which runs in from the sea about one mile, and lies open to the north winds.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

Even when he is an old man, and listening to the praise of all the young fellows who have caught the taste of the public, he can, at all events, show something of his work as testimony of what he was.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

For evening comes, and then, serene, to my abode I take my way, and grab this good old magazine, and leave the world of bran and hay.
— from Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason

And Owain, overwhelmed with shame and remorse, fled from the sight of men and lived in a desolate country with wild beasts till his body wasted and his hair grew long and his clothing rotted away.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

There are a hundred ways of making a living.”
— from The Cash Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Everybody worries in order miserably to perpetuate a miserable existence; this awful need compels him to consuming labour; man (or, more exactly, the human intellect) seduced by the "Will" now occasionally marvels at labour as something dignified.
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Eh, Thomas!” thought the old merchant, and like the pilgrims he, too, gave him blessing, though an inner one.
— from Silver Cross by Mary Johnston