Only, once their anger is up, the passion works in princess and shepherdess the same).
— from On Love by Stendhal

Manfred, almost hardened to preternatural appearances, surmounted the shock of this new prodigy; and returning to the hall, where by this time the feast was ready, he invited his silent guests to take their places.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Sitting on some straw, she began to cry, but while she was weeping, overcome by a poignant and supernatural terror, she heard Patin talking in the room below.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

On the other side your incomprehensible, persistent, and, so to speak, obdurate silence with regard to the source from which you obtained the money which was so suddenly seen in your hands, when only three hours earlier, on your own showing, you pledged your pistols for the sake of ten roubles!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I tuned my violin and struck up a lively air; while some joined in a nimble reel, others patted and sang their simple but melodious songs, filling the great room with music mingled with the sound of human voices and the clatter of many feet.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Shakespeare never permits a spirit to show itself but to men of the highest intellectual power.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And so they had all three good lodging with Sir Marhaus, and good cheer; for when he wist that they were King Arthur's sister's sons he made them all the cheer that lay in his power, and so they sojourned there a sennight, and were well eased of their wounds, and at the last departed.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

So soon as they spring to flower, grain, fruitage, they belong not to the gods of Hades but to man: an idea which originated the myth of Persephone, and seems to survive in a school of extreme vegetarians, who refuse to eat vegetables not ripened in the sun.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Of work for the “Schools” Frank had done little or nought; but when in August the [73] vicar’s daughter left Porchester for six weeks, work somehow seemed easier, and he managed to get through a fair amount; and again, when the boys went back to school about the middle of September, and he was left alone with his parents and sisters, there seemed fresh opportunities for study.
— from Oxford Days; or, How Ross Got His Degree by F. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly

Then he said: "She loads me with promises and swears that she loves me more than all the world.
— from The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green

—Neptun, or Neptunus, brother to Jove and Pluto, and son to Saturn.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

He had been justly chastised for lending, by his presence, a sanction to such worldly lures.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Padi, a stockaded town some 60 miles up the Saribas river, and the furthest up of the piratical strongholds, reputed also to be the strongest and most important, was the first attacked, and though defended by two forts and two booms of forest trees stretched across the river, and being crowded with Malay and Dayak warriors, it was carried on the evening of June 11, and the place committed to the flames.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

Such, however, was the chastened excellence of Mrs. Bertrand’s character, such the beauty of her life, I might add, indeed, of her person, and such the sweetness of disposition and almost angelic temper and devotion of Amelia, that perhaps it was not strange that many should regard their domestic and social virtues and their Christian graces as inimitable.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, February 1850 by Various

Do not waste your time wandering thousands of [miles], through this town and that, with your staff on your shoulder, wintering in one place and spending the summer in another.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

Printed in the 1654 edition of Witts Recreations , where it appears as:— " Nicholas and Nell did lately sit Playing for sport at cherry-pit; They both did throw, and, having thrown, He got the pit and she the stone".
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

He thought first of the number ten, then of the number five; then, as the saying is, he split the difference, inclined the fraction to the prisoner and said: "The sentence of the Court is that you be confined in the penitentiary at hard labor for the period of seven years, no part of your sentence to be in solitary confinement, and that you pay the costs of this prosecution."
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

I murmured out something that he did not hear, keeping myself prepared, however, in case he persisted, to cut him down at once; but he seemed little disposed to take any very exact note of the proceedings; and, seeing the sacks, he took us, as I hoped he would, for a foraging party, and consequently suffered us to pass without making me repeat the word more than once, though I cannot suppose that my reply was at all like it.
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James