In the list as above set down will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare's life, lean and meager as the invoice is.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The cauldron sank into the earth; music was heard, and a procession of phantom kings filed past Macbeth; behind them was Banquo's ghost.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I then took my Book of Hours, sprinkled the cell with holy water, and pretended to pray, kissing from time to time the picture of the Virgin.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Here, Adam,” said Mrs. Poyser, who was standing and looking on to see that Molly and Nancy did their duty as waiters, “here's a place kept for you between Mr. Massey and the boys.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In the expedition of the Emperor Charles V. into Provence, King Francis was put to choose either to go meet him in Italy or to await him in his own dominions; wherein, though he very well considered of how great advantage it was to preserve his own territory entire and clear from the troubles of war, to the end that, being unexhausted of its stores, it might continually supply men and money at need; that the necessity of war requires at every turn to spoil and lay waste the country before us, which cannot very well be done upon one’s own; to which may be added, that the country people do not so easily digest such a havoc by those of their own party as from an enemy, so that seditions and commotions might by such means be kindled amongst us; that the licence of pillage and plunder (which are not to be tolerated at home) is a great ease and refreshment against the fatigues and sufferings of war; and that he who has no other prospect of gain than his bare pay will hardly be kept from running home, being but two steps from his wife and his own house; that he who lays the cloth is ever at the charge of the feast; that there is more alacrity in assaulting than defending; and that the shock of a battle’s loss in our own bowels is so violent as to endanger the disjointing of the whole body, there being no passion so contagious as that of fear, that is so easily believed, or that so suddenly diffuses itself; and that the cities that should hear the rattle of this tempest at their gates, that should take in their captains and soldiers yet trembling and out of breath, would be in danger in this heat and hurry to precipitate themselves upon some untoward resolution: notwithstanding all this, so it was that he chose to recall the forces he had beyond the mountains and to suffer the enemy to come to him.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[3] i.e. learn, perceive, know for certainty by the conviction of reason and consciousness—grasp once for all the truth beheld.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Only I warn you that we must not grant merely an empty liberty, in words alone, like that under the Muscovites, when the late Pan Karp freed his serfs and the Muscovite starved them to death with a triple tax.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

[ cnyssan ] 64 cnōsl n. stock, progeny, kin, family : native country .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

To have the sense of virtue, is nothing but to feel a satisfaction of a particular kind from the contemplation of a character.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Politeness is as necessary to a happy intercourse with the inhabitants of the kitchen, as with those of the parlor; it lessens the pains of service, promotes kind feelings on both sides, and checks unbecoming familiarity; always thank them for what they do for you, and always ask rather than command their services.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Courtesy of Hercules Powder Co. OVERHEAD SUCTION AT THE SAN DIEGO WHARF PUMPING KELP FROM THE BARGE TO THE DIGESTION TANKS
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

But instead of the usual troupe, which Herod probably kept for such an occasion, Salome herself came in and danced a wild nautch-dance.
— from John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

"He did not speak," replied Longpole; "but when he saw me, he quietly slipped his hand out of the bosom of his doublet, and getting it down to the hilt of his poniard, kept fingering it with a sort of affectionate squeeze, as much as to say, 'Dearly beloved, how I should like to pluck you out of your leathern case, and furnish you with one of flesh and blood!'
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She paused, and then with one wave of her stately arm swept mutton, platter, knife, fork, and caper sauce into the lap of Sir JOHN, whence the astonished BINNS, gasping in pain, with much labour rescued them.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various

R72542, 9Jan51, Percy Keese Fitzhugh (A) FITZHUGH, PERCY KEESE.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The expansion in British Columbia if not equal in magnitude to that in the prairie and grain-growing provinces, keeps full pace with the requirements of that province.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

"All right," said Harry, "but I should like to make one more paper knife first if you don't mind."
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

rals, supposing that the enemy were continuing the pursuit without pause, kept fleeing still faster, wasting not a moment; and they were urging on their horses as they ran with whip and voice, and throwing their corselets and other accoutrements in haste and confusion to the ground.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius