Materials (fig. 692 ).—The braids used for making Irish lace are an English speciality and manufactured exclusively in England; they are very various in shade, width and thickness, and are to be had white, unbleached, grey and pale yellow, narrow and wide, coarse and fine in texture, with and without holes, open edge and picots, with large medallions and small. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

would that I could pay you not merely forty kopecks, but five hundred roubles.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

‘Perhaps—occasionally; provided you never abuse the privilege.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

812 shows the formation of the knot, the manner in which the thread, passing from left to right, forms a loop, and how to pass your needle under the straightly extended thread and through the loop.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

He seemed so poor, yet not one hour forgot The golden grave, the consecrated spot: Whether he goes or comes, or eats or drinks, Of gold, and gold alone, the Miser thinks.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

This day my wife begun to wear light-coloured locks, quite white almost, which, though it makes her look very pretty, yet not being natural, vexes me, that I will not have her wear them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You need not make your pupil a sick-nurse or a Brother of Pity; you need not distress him by the perpetual sight of pain and suffering; you need not take him from one hospital to another, from the gallows to the prison.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I am he, may it please your nobility, and I can wink at an honest fellow's doings as well as another."
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

"It is a peculiar circumstance," she remarked icily, "that in the original voting papers your name occurs only nine times, and in the substituted papers eighteen times."
— from The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story by Angela Brazil

David Pew, you never set your foot on a King’s ship in all your life.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Then I will press you no farther; but I am ready to serve you at any time, don't forget that."
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

As long as you keep to the same pistol, you need not mind how slowly the bullet goes up.
— from The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It by Walter Winans

"I have played you no trick.
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

It is impossible that she could have gone to the Barrière du Roule, or to the Rue des Drâmes, without being recognized by a dozen persons; yet no one has come forward who saw her outside of her mother’s door, and there is no evidence, except the testimony concerning her expressed intentions, that she did go out at all.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe