Our meal proceeded pretty much in silence.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Yet we must remember that the Prætorian Præfect Macro is said to have suffocated Tiberius with his bed-clothes.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

In the revised body of Laws made in the year 1734, we find this article: 'Notwithstanding the preceding pecuniary mulcts, it shall be lawful for the President, Tutors, and Professors, to punish Undergraduates by Boxing, when they shall judge the nature or circumstances of the offence call for it.'
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

In the grand design of God, moral qualities hold the first place; physical magnitude is subordinate and instrumental.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

But I thinke that future ages will discover more; and our posterity, perhaps, may invent some meanes for our better acquaintance with these inhabitants. ’
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

This appeal to quality rather than quantity of pleasure puts Mill, in spite of himself, squarely on Platonic ground and abandons consistent Epicureanism.
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

Pat, pat, pat, Make it smooth and round.
— from Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten by Emilie Poulsson

Why this particular pretended miracle is specified here is not certain.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

Why, Maria, I hope I am not irreverent—when I think of those noble creatures plowing through snow and storm to rescue some poor perishing mortal, it seems to me almost a type of the Divine love that came to seek and to save the lost.
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley

This brings us well up to the present time, and as that is quite capable of taking care of itself without any assistance from us, we will conclude, in the hope that, though we have perforce passed many interesting specimens by, our selection, considering the space at command, has not been in any way injudicious.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

Michael Perez I must laugh, prethee pardon me, I shall laugh terribly.
— from Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by John Fletcher