I don’t think a teacher should take such a mean advantage, do you?
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Tandlerus and some authors make a doubt, whether love and hatred may be compelled by philters or characters; Cardan and Marbodius, by precious stones and amulets; astrologers by election of times, &c. as [4543]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And by ignoring the stage and mimes and dancers you have ruined our city, so that we get no good out of you except your harshness; and this we have had to put up with these seven months, so that we have left it to the old crones who grovel among the tombs to pray that we may be entirely rid of so great a curse, but we ourselves have accomplished it by our own ingenious insolence, by shooting our satires at you like arrows.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Mutilation, or mere injury of another body, indeed every blow, is to be regarded as in its nature the same as murder, and differing from it only in degree.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Now when the girl begins to show her love by outward signs and motions, as described in the last chapter, the lover should try to gain her over entirely by various ways and means, such as the following:— When engaged with her in any game or sport he should intentionally hold her hand.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Suddenly out of its shadow a masked and draped figure darted, and putting its hand to his throat, inquired in a very husky voice,— "What doest thou here?"
— from My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Sciarra and Messer Andrea di Campo di Fiore confronted each other and abused each other loudly.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Though everything had had to be made on a reduced scale, I did not remember to have seen a more artistic display in any temple.
— from "Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

The different benevolent Societies also met, and discussed the probability of little Ruth Lynn's being thrown upon their generosity.
— from Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

The secret, which at first had seemed such a mysterious and delightful possession, suddenly grew into a great and terrible burden that he longed to cast at Seki's feet and ask her to share.
— from Captain June by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Among her virtues her son Roger dilated at length upon her delightful letter-writing, her "freedom of style and matter," and declared that her letters were among the comforts of her children's lives.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

So seen, and in relation to the almost omnipotent surroundings, who is to distinguish between F. and such a man as Dr. Candlish, or between such a man as David Hume and such an one as Robert Burns?
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

One galley alone, the St. Ann , made a desperate resistance; the others surrendered.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

Yas, my frens, glory be to Him, dat's what our Heabenly massa say, and who ob you wouldn't hab sich a massa as dat?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

Uncle Solomon held the handles of the plough and the old oxen started walking slowly across the field dragging the plough; and the plough dug into the ground and turned the earth up at one side and made a deep furrow where it had gone.
— from The Sandman: His Farm Stories by William John Hopkins