"That I will, Senora Countess Trifaldi," said Don Quixote, "most gladly and with right goodwill, without stopping to take a cushion or put on my spurs, so as not to lose time, such is my desire to see you and all these duennas shaved clean."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Let my joys, Phocus, be the first portion of my sorrowful story.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Nor, be it noted, does it count the $20,000,000 we [ 600 ] paid Spain for the Islands, which item, is, however included in another part of Mr. Slayden’s speech.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Then, laying his hand pityingly on my shoulder, sighed, "he died of consumption at Sing-Sing.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

"The funny part of Mrs. Shoosmith," said Sally, when the pot was full up and the lid shut, "is that the moment she is brought into contact with warm soapy water and scrubbing-brushes, she seems to renew her youth.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

[The performance of Mr. Synge’s Shadow of the Glen started a quarrel with the extreme national party, and the following paragraphs are from letters written in the play’s defence.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8) The Hour-glass. Cathleen ni Houlihan. The Golden Helmet. The Irish Dramatic Movement by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

I do not mind him in the least; I find I can pour out my superfluous spirits upon him quite as well as upon a more companionable person, perhaps better; for with him at least I have all the conversation to myself.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

We can hardly be wrong in supposing that in such invocations the Atharva reflects the popular practice of its time, but it prefers the invocation of counteracting forces, whether Vedic deities or magical plants, to the propitiation of malignant spirits, such as the worship of the goddesses presiding over smallpox and cholera which is still prevalent in India.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir