these could be called sensible people; but with such a mad Englishwoman nothing could be done.'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Best image of myself, and dearer half, The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth dream, of evil sprung, I fear; Yet evil whence?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Best Image of my self and dearer half, The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep Affects me equally; nor can I like This uncouth dream, of evil sprung I fear; Yet evil whence?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Captain Henry Somerset and myself exchanged nineteen shots in the glen, and at each fire I shot away a button from his uniform.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

“She's a true good lady, I warrant her,” says he; “for she hath mercy upon dumb creatures; for she asked me every now and tan upon the journey, if I did not think she should hurt the horses by riding too fast?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The wise bird reasoned thus: "I've oft Caught and stored Mice within my croft, Which ran away, and 'scaped my claws; One remedy is, I'll cut their paws, And eat them slowly at my ease— Now one of those, now one of these.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

qui, ut scriptum legimus, cum uxorem Theben admodum diligeret, tamen ad eam ex epulis in cubiculum veniens barbarum, et eum quidem, ut scriptum est, compunctum notis Thraeciis, destricto gladio iubebat anteire praemittebatque de stipatoribus suis, qui scrutarentur arculas muliebres et, ne quod in vestimentis telum occultaretur, exquirerent.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Or, a non-significant sound, which marks the beginning, end, or division of a sentence; such, however, that it cannot correctly stand by itself at the beginning of a sentence, as {mu epsilon nu}, {eta tau omicron iota}, {delta epsilon}.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

A Bishop will often be worth more than three Pawns, but a Knight very seldom so, and may even not be worth so much.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

"Let it be your pride, therefore, to show all men everywhere, not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and straight in everything, and pure and clean through and through.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

Hamilton shared with Jay a willingness to take such liberties with local rights to secure a more effective National Government.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

Thirty-five of these are metals found either pure or as ores, and sixteen are metals existing naturally in chemical combination with alkalies, alkaline earths, or earthy bases, that is as salts, from which they have been obtained by the analytical power of electricity or other means.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

To know an age aright we should above all things seek to understand its ideal, the direction in which the stream of its self-sacrifice and moral energy naturally flowed.
— from Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

[16] and wee could not get a shore after all this for we was ordered to french flanders and at last we have got to Paris and is in the Buss de bulling near to it which is a very fine place like a grove for a gateway and the french is very civil funny fellows to us now cause they know we can defend ourselves and they do not care for nothing but to get our Monney which theare is plenty way to spend and theare is shows and Montybanks every night and sundays and all and there is no Justesses or Methodys to stop them and there is all (p. 59) sorts of sights and Bartlemy fair is nothing to it and we are now agen commanded by brave Duke Wellington that always conqurs—and there is soldiers of all sorts here past all telling Rooshons Prooshons and Austrions and Jarmans of all kind and the Rooshons are verry good naturd cretures and will do anything for an Englishman and says their prayrs
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

The disappointed prince was therefore compelled to defer his passion and projects till a more convenient season, and Mher el Nissa became the wife of Sher Afken.
— from Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 1 (of 2) Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6. by Daniel Henry MacKinnon

The North American Indians and the blacks more readily intermixed than the Indians and the whites, while the latter connexion, which is not indeed uncommon, is formed by the marriage of a white man with a squaw; never, or most rarely, of an Indian and a white woman, the slight, and most exaggerated number of mulattoes, are nearly without exception, the offspring of white men and colored women.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge