Dramatis Personæ Persons in the Induction A LORD CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker HOSTESS PAGE PLAYERS HUNTSMEN SERVANTS BAPTISTA MINOLA, a rich gentleman of Padua VINCENTIO, an old gentleman of Pisa LUCENTIO, son to Vincentio; in love with Bianca PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona; suitor to Katherina Suitors to Bianca GREMIO HORTENSIO Servants to Lucentio TRANIO BIONDELLO Servants to Petruchio
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Poor Lucy's sad story was but a common one.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Poor lady, she did not know what she had done!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This, so Livy tells us, was the jealousy between the Fabian sisters, the one married to the patrician Sulpicius, the other to the plebeian Licinius Stolo.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Ce site a pour vocation de présenter la société d'ingénierie, de mentionner quelques-unes de ses réalisations, de proposer des stages….
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Not that we wholly lack the same attempt in some forms of our music; but it is less pronounced, less successful.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

It has many long and green stalks of large winged leaves, divided into many parts, like Smallage, but much larger and greater, every leaf being cut about the edges, broadest forward, and smallest at the stalk, of a sad green colour, smooth and shining; from among which rise up sundry strong, hollow green stalks, five or six, sometimes seven or eight feet high, full of joints, but lesser leaves set on them than grow below; and with them towards the tops come forth large branches, bearing at their tops large umbels of yellow flowers, and after them flat brownish seed.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

"Here, without fixed design or stability of purpose, like some miser who has hidden his own hoards so deeply within the bowels of the earth he cannot hope that he shall ever again be able to bring them to the light of day.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

A little later, on May 19th, the Prince attended the opening of an International Reformatory Exhibition at Islington and received and answered an address from its President, Lord Shaftesbury.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

To think that her precious life should be intrusted to the care and skill of so unreliable a captain!
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

—From E. u. umbrinus , the subspecies from the Uinta and northern Wasatch Mountains of Utah, E. u. sedulus differs in: General tone of upper parts lighter; sides lighter.
— from Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus by John A. White

The word "determine," here, has a purely logical significance: a certain number of variables "determine" another variable if that other variable is a function of them.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

A negro youth whom an American resident hired as a fireman on his launch appeared in a red tie and patent leather shoes, followed by his mother and his grandmother, carrying his baggage on their heads.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

It is to the effect that our laws relating to public lands should be so framed and administered as to ultimately secure freeholds to the greatest number of citizens , and to this end all laws facilitating speculation in public lands authorizing or permitting entry or purchase in large bodies ought to be repealed, and all public lands adapted to agriculture, subject to bounty grants, and those in aid of education ought to be reserved for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers, and disposed of only under the provisions of the homestead law.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

But for this circumstance, I should probably long since have transferred my wife to the care of society at large—in the agreeable conviction that if I didn’t support her, somebody else would.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins