For reply Peter rose and kicked John out of bed, blankets and all; one kick.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Nay she has sometimes such an influence, that she can stop our progress, even in the midst of our most profound reflections, and keep us from running on with all the consequences of any philosophical opinion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo —I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me.
— 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.

2nd row —Knit two; make or enlarge one stitch by picking up one from the previous row and knitting it; knit all the rest.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

But he was continually met and stopped by acquaintances, who told him about the previous races, and kept asking him why he was so late.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[“The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered at, that the butchers’ boys would say, ‘Will you buy any Parliament rumps and kidneys?’
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Prayid raysa ang kan-un, Make fried rice of the food (rice).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For a deed is done from passion either when men suddenly, and without intention to kill, cause the death of another by blows and the like on a momentary impulse, and are sorry for the deed immediately afterwards; or again, when after having been insulted in deed or word, men pursue revenge, and kill a person intentionally, and are not sorry for the act.
— from Laws by Plato

When she saw that the old woman was very fond of anecdotes, riddles and puns, she collected as many as she could from the Vie parisienne and the Journal pour rire and kept them ready to hand.
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus

As for Papa Triscoe and his Europeanized scruples, if they have any reality at all they're the residuum of his personal resentment, and Kenby and Mrs. Adding have nothing to do with their unreality.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

But having reached Buckinghamshire, he cannot find it “anywhere apparent to the eye ... except between Princes Risborrow and Kemble in the Street, where it is still call’d Icknell Way.”
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

When a child is to be named, it is carried to the woods, where the priest raises a knife over its head, at the same time pronouncing a name.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

Here is a man who, from the general wording and caligraphy of his letter, appears to have received the advantages of an ordinary good education—a man who, by his own confession, is the tenant of a farm for which he pays five hundred pounds a-year of rent, and upwards—a man who, we doubt not, is most estimable in his private relations, a kind husband, an indulgent father, and possibly a considerate master—a man who, not improbably, is on good terms with the squire, and, it may be, visits at the parsonage—and yet this very individual, Mr Hawbuck, is complaining that he cannot make ends meet!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

Who imagines that we can take in Porto Rico and keep out nearer islands when they come?
— from Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid

The horses moved closer together in instinct born of training at the hands of practised riders, and King's arm went about Cherry as he drew her close to him.
— from The Heart of Cherry McBain: A Novel by Douglas Durkin

He is a good lodger in many ways, pays regular and keeps good hours.
— from A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

26 Age, 29 , 30 , 35 1852-1862, 42 , 45 , 47 1875-1880, 1882-3, 46 Alert, 33 , 34 Coburg, 30 Comet, 33 1887-1899, 1900, 46 , 49 , 55 Coronet, 33 Criterion, 41 , 64 , 74 , 88 Dart, 33 Defiance, 28 , 46 1880, — Duke of Beaufort, 31 “Flying Machine,” coach, 18-22 Life-Preserver, 30 Magnet, 33 Mails, The, 23 , 26 , 28 , 33 , 34 , 42 Old Times, 1866, 45 1888, 49-51 Quicksilver, 38 Red Rover, 41 , 63 , 88 Regent, 33 Sovereign, 33 Times, 33 Union, 33 Venture (A. G. Vanderbilt), 61 Victoria, 42 Vigilant, 1900-05, — Wonder, 38 Coaching, 5 , 11-14 , 18-34 , 37-49 , 228 Coaching Notabilities:— Angel, B. J., 45 , 46 Armytage, Col., 45 Batchelor, Jas., 14 Beaufort, Duke of, 45 , 46 Beckett, Capt. H. L., 46 Blyth, Capt., 46 Bradford, “Miller”, 26 Clark, George, 45 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, 29 , 45 Fitzgerald, Mr., 45 Fownes, Edwin, 46 Freeman, Stewart, 46 , 49 Gwynne, Sackville Frederick, 29 Harbour, Charles, 41 , 64 Haworth, Capt., 45 , 46 Jerningham, Hon. Fred., 29 Lawrie, Capt., 45 Londesborough, Earl of, 46 McCalmont, Hugh, 46 Meek, George, 46 Pole, E. S. Chandos, 45 , 46 Pole-Gell, Mr., 46 Sandys, Hon. H., 49 Selby, Jas., 41 , 49 , 64 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 89 Stevenson, Henry, 29 , 30 Stracey-Clitherow, Col., 46 Thynne, Lord H., 45 Tiffany, Mr., 46 Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne, 61 Wemyss, Randolph, 49 Wiltshire, Earl of, 46 Worcester, Marquis of, 29 , 38 Coaching Records, 41 , 64 , 73 , 74 , 88 , 89 Cold Blow, 159 Colliers’ Water, 108 Colliers of Croydon, 108 Coulsdon, 131 , 133 County Oak, 178 Covert, Family of, 238-244 Crawley, 93 , 173 , 182-195 Crawley Downs, 191-193 Croydon, 106-123 Cuckfield, 30 , 202-209 Place, 209-222 , 242 Cycling, 64-71 , 74-79 , 85-91 Cycling Notabilities:— Edge, Selwyn Francis, 75 , 76 , 89 Holbein, M. A., 74 Mayall, John, Junior, 66-69 , 70 , 88 Shorland, F. W., 74 , 89 Smith, C. A., 75 , 76 , 77 , 89 Turner, Rowley B., 66 , 67 , 69 Cycling Records, 68-79 , 85-91 Dale, 93 , 248 , 250 Dance, Sir Charles, 37 , 39 Ditchling, 224 Driving Records, 63 , 73 , 194 Earlswood Common, 93 , 146 , 148 Fauntleroy, Henry, 196 Foxley Hatch, 93 , 126 Frenches, 93 , 145 Friar’s Oak, 226 Gatton, 141-145 , 164 Gatwick, 155 George IV., Prince Regent and King, 3 , 6 , 8-11
— from The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper