‘Such a rumpus everywhere!’ continued the Otter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

During and after the final break-up of the Roman Empire came times or confusion and of social reconstruction, which left little opportunity for scientific Pg xix thought and research.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

"What!" eagerly observed Pao-yü with a grin, when he caught these words, "are there really eight characters too on your necklet, cousin?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

"Such a rumpus everywhere!" continued the Otter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Incidents were related evidently confirming the opinion that everything was going from bad to worse, but whether telling a story or giving an opinion the speaker always stopped, or was stopped, at the point beyond which his criticism might touch the sovereign himself.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[2] The Manga and Serape are Mexican cloaks worn scapulary-wise, the one of richly embroidered cloth, the other of blanket, or some such coarse material.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

That a deeper joy denied? "Hands that ope but to receive Empty close; they only live Richly who can richly give.
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

In Gaelic literature there is, as far as I know, nothing which even pretends to represent early Celtic thought on this subject.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

"And I," rejoined Eidiol, "claim that only the bourgeois court has jurisdiction over us."
— from The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion by Eugène Sue

When a brass sun staggers above the sky, When feet cleave to boots, and the tongue’s dry, And sharp dust goads the rolling eye, Come thoughts of wine, and dancing thoughts of girls: They shiver their white arms, and the head whirls, And noon light is hid in their dark curls: Noon feet stumble and head swims.
— from Gipsy-Night, and Other Poems by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

ROSS, ERNEST C. The ordeal of Bridget Elia; a cronicle of Mary Lamb.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“You showed a want of confidence in us,” said Michel Chrestien; “we shall chalk that up over the chimney, and when we have scored ten we will——” “We have all of us found a bit of extra work,” said Bianchon; “for my own part, I have been looking after a rich patient for Desplein; d’Arthez has written an article for the Revue Encyclopedique ; Chrestien thought of going out to sing in the Champs Elysees of an evening with a pocket-handkerchief and four candles, but he found a pamphlet to write instead for a man who has a mind to go into politics, and gave his employer six hundred francs worth of Machiavelli; Leon Giraud borrowed fifty francs of his publisher, Joseph sold one or two sketches; and Fulgence’s piece was given on Sunday, and there was a full house.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac