"On the contrary," replied La Fontaine, seizing him by the hand, "I have satisfied the public, and now you must come to my house, every day, or I will fight you again."
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

3 woman beyond her prime (and not yet married).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘Well, wife,’ replied he, ‘it is a grand thing to be pope; and now you must be easy, for you can be nothing greater.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Napier's Vacuum Machine, 1840 Thomas Page, a New York millwright, began the manufacture of a pull-out coffee
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

You are altogether, as the French say, too primesautière a nature; you must have intense, energetic action, or nothing.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For the sake of the salvation of souls the Emperor was not to be regarded as “judge in the matter of our faith,” for his “injustice is undeniable, manifest, patent and notorious, yea, more than notorious.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

If West Point and Annapolis players are not young men, who, after graduation, will go out into the world in various civil professions or other pursuits relating to commerce and industry, they are men, on the contrary, who are being trained to uphold the honor of our flag at home or abroad, as fate may decree—fighting men whose lives are to be devoted to the National weal.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

"So be it, then," said the peer; "and now you must return to speak with the person I mentioned, who shall soon be sent to you."
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

At first you said the child deserved baptism because of its own heavenly nature, and next you said it deserved baptism not because of its own condition, but because of the faith of its parent, and now you mention this other idea of dedication and pledging on the part of the parent.
— from Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. (Eldridge Burwell) Hatcher

As to your departure, it must take place at night; you must set out without being seen by any one, or, if you are seen, it must not be known that you belong to me.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

But if they were to be blamed for dividing, though for the highest points; are not you much more for condemning your brethren to perpetual banishment from church communion, though sound in all the great points of the gospel, and right in all church ordinances also, because for want of light they fail only in the point of baptism?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The ore on this body was quite poor, and never yielded much profit.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Perry, A New York Mill Town 59 IV.
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.

We have yet to hear of instances where quantities of hair have been found on the ground in the parks, and no young man or young woman, after an evening in the park, comes to his place of business in the morning, with eyes clawed out, ears chewed, or so stiff as to be unable to get up from under the stove without being kicked.
— from Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The nine daies are almost past, and now you must have a more strengthening diet; to wit, a dish of fine white Pearch, a roasted Pullet, half a dozen of young Pigeons, some Wigeons or Teal, some Lams-stones, Sweetbreads, a piece of roast Veal, and a delicate young Turky, &c. And whilest you are eating, you must be sure to drink two or three glasses of the best Rhenish wine, very well sweetned with the finest loaf sugar, you must also be very carefull of drinking any French wine, for that will too much inflame you.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh