Officious fate, resolved our lover From such an illness should recover, Presented always to his eyes The mute advisers which the ladies prize;-- Mirrors in parlours, inns, and shops,-- Mirrors the pocket furniture of fops,-- Mirrors on every lady's zone,[ 13 ] From which his face reflected shone.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

I will have a long talk with Colonel Porter, and tell him every thing that may occur to me of interest to you.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

he murmured proudly and turning his eyes to the benches where they had appeared for a moment; “they would have seen that their friend was worthy of their defense while alive, and of their tears when dead.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It is the settled belief of the men who conduct them that soap and water are as powerful moral agents in their particular field as preaching, and they have experience to back them.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Teutonic kings, again, in the old heathen days seem to have stood in the position, and to have exercised the powers, of high priests.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I ought to have given her the preference, and thus have ended the dispute, but who can account for his whims?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

What shall I say of that which properly interests the soldiers, for whose interests those worthy tribunes of the commons, all on a sudden, are now so anxious to provide, after they have endeavoured to wrest their pay from them?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

There was no peg anywhere to hang even the smallest suspicion of him upon.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

These now testified, that G. B. had been at Witch-meetings with them; and that he was the person who had seduced and compelled them into the Snares of Witchcraft: that he promised them fine Cloaths for doing it; that he brought Poppets to them, and thorns to stick into those Poppets, for the afflicting of other People: And that he exhorted them, with the rest of the Crue to bewitch all Salem -Village; but be sure to do it gradually; if they would prevail in what they did.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Calef

230 Very naturally, therefore, it has come to be regarded with somewhat greater leniency by law and public opinion in proportion as they have emancipated themselves from theological doctrines.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

One of the ruffians of Madrid, called Manolos, came up to me one night, in a dark street, and told me that unless I discontinued selling my “Jewish books,” I should have a knife “ nailed in my heart ”; but I told him to go home, say his prayers, and tell his employers that I pitied them; whereupon he turned away with an oath.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

In the exercises for parsing appended to his Etymology , the Doctor furnishes twenty-five Rules of Syntax , which, he says, "are not intended to be committed to memory, but to be used as directions to the beginner in parsing the exercises under them."— E. Gram. , p. 75.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

200 "Let us ride up the river a bit," suggested Phil, after they had eaten their lunch.
— from Dave Porter at Star Ranch; Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer

Upon the death of his master, this man, apprehensive of the consequences both to his party and to himself, endeavored to keep possession of power; and for that purpose he is accused of executing a deed which required a high degree of temerity.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

With the theoretical efficiency obtainable varying so widely, this standard cannot be placed at the highest efficiency that has been obtained regardless of operating conditions.
— from Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company

There was nothing very peculiar about this horse, excepting that his legs seemed rather long for his body, and upon a closer examination, there was a noticeable breadth of nostril and a latent fire in his eye, indicating a good deal of spirit, which, like Charley's own, required taming.
— from Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When Joe carelessly picked up a small bottle that stood upon the table before Slippery, the yegg's face turned pale, and then he explained to the boy who too commenced to shudder the longer he listened, that the harmless looking liquid in the bottle was fearfully dangerous nitro-glycerine.
— from The Trail of the Tramp By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Actual Experiences of His Own Life by A-No. 1