They are commonly such people, rude, silly, superstitious idiots, nasty, unclean, lousy, poor, dejected, slavishly humble: and as [2253] Leo Afer observes of the commonalty of Africa, natura viliores sunt, nec apud suos duces majore in precio quam si canes essent :
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

You are very right, sir, she is a most rare scholar, And is gone mad with studying Broughton's works.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

cried Denísov, not pronouncing his r ’s. “Such ill luck!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I had resolved, sir, said I, in my mind, otherwise; and he knew it; and the poor man—I charge you, said he, say not a word in his favour!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

During the day he remained secreted, sometimes in the branches of a tree, and at night pressed forward through the swamps.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

This is well devised, said King Arthur, and right so shall it be.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

These taxes were confirmed in favour of Sivaji in 1665 ( Ibid. 94).] 472 CHAPTER 15 Rāna Sangrām Singh II., A.D. 1710-34.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Pensionarios ut studiorum socios in collegium recipiendos statuimus; sitque in illis recipiendis ratio morum ac doctrinae diligenter habita; magistris artium aut superioris gradus unum, baccalaureis autem nullum omnino concedimus.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

[633] In consequence of its record, Socialists see in Liberalism not a friend, but an enemy.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

A glimpse of him on one of these begging tours is given by Professor Francis G. Peabody: "I suppose that every lover of General Armstrong recalls some special incident which seems most entirely typical of the man's life and heart.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

All must be told, [Pg 154] and virile truth at last substituted for the stale flattery of the old romantic school styling itself "Revolutionary."
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

In far-off times the first pallid lights had often revealed these very mountains shaken upon their great bases; valleys suddenly buried under the green inundations of rushing seas; cyclonic disturbances that have registered so strongly in the racial consciousness of man that he may never watch without awe the emergence of the new day from the baptism of dawn.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

There was Tarsus, its flat roofs so sunk in gardens and fruit-trees that minarets and domes alone proclaimed the presence of a large town; and there, too, still faint and dim, but unmistakable, was the thin, moving line of smoke which proclaimed that we were nearing the land of the Monster once more.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins