The two American miners who used to sit on the boulder are poor yet, and they take turn about in getting up early in the morning to curse those Mexicans—and when it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I laugh to see what ignorant persons you are, to take upon yourselves so tedious a journey, and yet are like to have nothing but your travel for your pains.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

A numerous and loyal party yet adhered to the standard of Cantacuzene: but he asserts in his history (does he hope for belief?) that his tender conscience rejected the assurance of conquest; that, in free obedience to the voice of religion and philosophy, he descended from the throne and embraced with pleasure the monastic habit and profession.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then you must all take oath And pledge your arms to the same stern conditions-- LYSISTRATA
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

These words of thine, dear friend of mine, are true, quoth Panurge; yet are they terms used in the language of the court of the Lanternish people.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Coffee imports in 1921 continued to run in about the same well-worn channels as in previous years, according to the figures showing the trade with the producing countries.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Well, then, when you are angry, do you permit your anger to triumph over your judgment?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In conclusion, whatever food you give your children, provided you accustom them to nothing but plain and simple dishes, let them eat and run and play as much as they want; you may be sure they will never eat too much and will never have indigestion; but if you keep them hungry half their time, when they do contrive to evade your vigilance, they will take advantage of it as far as they can; they will eat till they are sick, they will gorge themselves till they can eat no more.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And so I pray you all to think yourselves.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

"I went to see some poor people yesterday, and they told me; but that was not enough.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

The close of the sixteenth century brought a stretch of two hundred and fifty peaceful years after the turbulence that had shaken Japan until then.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

[Pg 119] of you, and that had I possessed you a thousand times you would see me more intoxicated still, because there would be hope and memory where now there is only hope.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

Pooh, you are trying to hoax me; very good!"
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Mr. Miller, of Chandos Street, who during the past year added to the value of the Monthly Catalogues by the addition to each of them of several pages of literary and bibliographical miscellanies, has just collected these into a little volume, under the title of Fly Leaves, or Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous , which may find a fitting place beside Davis's Olio , and other works of that class.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This was no small glory for Cortes to giue estates, and also to take them away at his pleasure, yea and that those Indians should haue him in suche feare and respect, that none durste doe any thyng in acceptyng the inheritaunce of their fathers without his good will and licence.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

He was administered to by President Young and the Twelve, and he was much relieved.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

You know grown-up people often say they do not like to punish you, and that they only do it for your own good, and that it hurts them as much as it hurts you -
— from Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit

At this point, you actually try to raise your legs.
— from A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers

“And you don't know how much this cost him, Master Tom,” said she, laughing; “for however little store you may lay by my company, he prizes it, and prizes it highly too, I promise you; and then there was another reason which weighed against his letting me come out here,—he has got some absurd prejudice against Sir Brook.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever