In fact, I am no longer giving up to love a sous , but part of my peace of mind and my nerves.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She told me, in addition, all the impertinence that would be further circulated, and how the malicious would triumph; how they would rejoice over the punishment of my pride, over my humiliation for that want of esteem for others with which I had often been reproached.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last leap-year ladies lost no time in exercising the privilege of making proposals of marriage.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

And what shall I propose on my part, O men of Athens?
— from Apology by Plato

Even when only a small proportion of mundic, pyrite or marcasite is present, it is highly objectionable for several reasons.
— from The Natural History of Clay by Alfred B. (Alfred Broadhead) Searle

Preparations of Mithridates. Power of Mithridates.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Food "They give 'em three pounds of meat a week, peck of meal, pint of molasses; some of them give 'em three to five pounds of flour on a Sunday morning according to the size of the family.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The Mermaid Fountain Fountain of "Beauty and the Beast" The Palace of Machinery Palace of Machinery, Interior Vestibule, Palace of Machinery—Gabriel Moulin Palace of Fine Arts Open Corridor, Palace of Fine Arts Detail of Rotunda, Palace of Fine Arts Colonnade, Fine Arts, and Half-Dome, Food Products Palace —J. L. Padilla "The Mother of the Dead" "High Tide; the Return of the
— from The Jewel City by Ben Macomber

Or only a flashing sunbeam In at the window pane, Or music pours on mortals Its beautiful disdain.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

The saving in raw material alone which it effected was an important factor in the war; yet of even greater service was the salvage production of materials, particularly ordnance materials, which took much time to manufacture at home and after that required a long haul to get them to the American Expeditionary Forces.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

And he was singing, too, as he went on with his task; sometimes— "Play on, minstrèl, play on, minstrèl, My lady is mine only girl;" and sometimes— "I bought thee petticoats of the best, The cloth so fine as fine might be; I gave thee jewels for thy chest, And all this cost I spent on thee;" or, again, he would practise his part in the new catch— "Merrily sang the Ely monks, When rowed thereby Canute the King."
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black