T. With your obstinacy, your insolence, your savage boisterous temper towards all who you think have no business to speak to you, your malicious pranks, your love of revenge,!!!!!
— from Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Mak a kirk and a mill o't. Turn a thing to any purpose you like; or rather, spoken sarcastically, Take it, and make the best of it.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Felix Mendelssohn, when a child, used to say, "I cannot tell you how such or such a thing was—I cannot speak it—I will play it to you!"—and run to his piano: sound was then to him a more perfect vehicle than words;—so, if I were a musician, I would play you Lake Ontario, rather than describe it.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

We once had four double horse-carts, made (excepting the wheels) of peeled young larch of rather slow growth, for the carriage of large stones; these, by mistake, were made very slight, so light, that, without the wheels, a man could have carried one of them away.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

Now then, Leon! get this under your right arm and put your left one round my neck—that will fix you up to hobble a short distance.”
— from A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook