And why is it nurse wants poor Pelageya to be married?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This is what Heav’n allows me to relate: Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate, And raise, by strength of arms, the Trojan state.’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Unabashed, Burne ran his hand lovingly across the spacious foreheads, and piling up the pictures put them back in his desk.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

MRS GWYLLIM, It has pleased Providence to bring us safe back to England, and partake us in many pearls by land and water, in particular the Devil’s Harse a pike, and Hoyden’s Hole, which hath got no bottom; and, as we are drawing huomwards, it may be proper to uprise you, that Brambleton-hall may be in condition to receive us, after this long gurney to the islands of Scotland.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And when that final development ultimately occurs, as I have no doubt it must and will occur, in obedience to a fate that never swerves and a purpose that cannot be altered, what will be the part played therein by that beautiful Egyptian Amenartas, the Princess of the royal race of the Pharaohs, for the love of whom the Priest Kallikrates broke his vows to Isis, and, pursued by the inexorable vengeance of the outraged Goddess, fled down the coast of Libya to meet his doom at Kôr?
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Two incidents united to intensify the old unreasoning abhorrence—granted in a previous place to be unreasoning, because the people always are unreasoning, and invariably make a point of producing all their smoke without fire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Now the decisive moment of battle had come when Kutúzov would be destroyed and the power pass to Bennigsen, or even if Kutúzov won the battle it would be felt that everything was done by Bennigsen.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Noble further said that there were fifty members present with money in their pockets, placed there by Dilworthy to buy their votes.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

tois toioutois de kai mechri pleionos en autê Pg 238 Greek text phainetai paramenon to baros, hôs an kai bradyteron pettousi.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant —Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Peter Packer, the bearer of these weekly dispatches, deserves a little notice.
— from Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

God sets poor penitents to be His witnesses in His world, and to do His work here.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, earnestly solicitous.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

The operation is conducted thus:—For what is called pomade, a certain quantity of purified mutton or deer suet is put into a clean metal or porcelain pan, this being melted by a steam heat; the kind of flowers required for the odor wanted are carefully picked and put into the liquid fat, and allowed to remain from twelve to forty-eight hours; the fat has a particular affinity or attraction for the oil of flowers, and thus, as it were, draws it out of them, and becomes itself, by their aid, highly perfumed; the fat is strained from the spent flowers, and fresh are added four or five times over, till the pomade is of the required strength; these various strengths of pomatums are noted by the French makers as Nos. 6, 12, 18, and 24, the higher numerals indicating the amount of fragrance in them.
— from The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc. by G. W. Septimus (George William Septimus) Piesse

For this purpose she thought of the Marechal de Rais as the most proper person to break the matter to the King, the Marshal being greatly in his favour and confidence.
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Volume 1 by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

Their favourite chief was the Duke de Beaufort, of whom we have already spoken as possessing very nearly the same characteristics as the rest—at once artificial and extravagant, with great pretensions to loyalty and patriotism, professing to be a man of independent action, but in fact wholly ruled by Madame de Montbazon, who, in her turn, was swayed by the Duchess de Chevreuse.
— from Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883

Peter Pan , the play, must by now have long overtaken the age of Peter Pan , the boy; but, like him, it never grows any older.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920 by Various

[323] That the rabble, or “fellows of the baser sort,” should have pelted Bunyan with all sorts of offensive articles, when he commenced to preach the gospel, is what could naturally have been expected; but it sounds strange to read what he has put on record of the abuse heaped upon him, by people professing to be the servants of Him “in whom there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female.”
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson