Of Ireland, the Dalcassians, of hopes, conspiracies, of Arthur Griffith now, A E, pimander, good shepherd of men.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

She received the applications of those who were in love with Madame Prote, and passed them on, while, whether a lover’s suit was accepted or not, the procuress got something out of him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Certain gentlemen among the passengers got some of the smaller boats lowered, and amused themselves by rowing about, and swimming, when the sun at evening time was cool enough to let them divert themselves in that way.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

As each fierce day seemed to burn itself out in little whiffs of pearl gray smoke on the mountain summits, and as the upspringing breeze scattered what might have been its red embers over the landscape, the green wave which, in early spring, had upheaved above Smith's grave grew sere and dry and hard.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

In our country we say, Il ne fut onques tel mariage, qu’est de la poire et du fromage; there is no match like that made between the pear and the cheese; and in many other places good store of such bargains have been driven.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It matters not in what relationship He stands, what office He fills, what work He performs, what position He occupies, His personal glories shine out in all their divine effulgence.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Though we know that the Ephraimites could not give the proper (Gileadite) sound of the letter shin in Shibboleth , (Judges, xii 8) yet all attempts to distinguish dialects in our extant books have failed.”
— from The Great God Gold by William Le Queux

I hope when he comes here, papa—well, I shall promptly go straight out of the room."
— from Renée Mauperin by Jules de Goncourt

There seemed a long distance between them now as she sat, with the man in evening dress crouching before her putting golden shoes on her feet.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Although the press generally spoke of the Liverpool and Manchester project as a mere speculation—as only one of the many bubble schemes of the period [58] —there were other writers who entertained different views, and boldly and ably announced them.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

How's business, Silas?' "'Well,' says he, 'for us that keeps ourselves up with the modern business methods, it's pretty good, I guess.' "'Do you mean pretty good, Silas, or do you mean pretty paying?'
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

The candles were still burning, wan against the daylight; and behind them was the pale, glowing star of the Electric Pentacle.
— from Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson

By the whole night's toil and trouble, flight and chase, Was just the officer who took them, Head O' the Public Force,—Patrizj, zealous soul, Who, having but duty to sustain weak flesh, Got heated, caught a fever and so died: A warning to the over-vigilant, —Virtue in a chafe should change her linen quick, Lest pleurisy get start of providence.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning