And at another hour, saith another philosopher; Put your little finger in your ears!
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And at another hour, saith another philosopher; Put your hand before your mouth!
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And at another hour, saith another philosopher; Put your hand upon your head!
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Prefieren el campo raso [2] a los bosques, y se asocian por pares y a veces en bandadas [3] de más de treinta individuos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A real bull-fight, I believe, is always given on Sunday, and Puritan prejudice yielded to usage even in the case of a burlesque bull-fight; at any rate, it was on a Sunday that we crouched in an irregular semicircle on a rising ground within the prison pale, and faced the captive audience in another semicircle, across a little alley for the entrances and exits of the performers.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

Temporary tents had been hastily made out of spruce boughs, and these being covered thickly with snow, afforded passable protection; yet they were poor places in which to spend a long day, and their occupants soon grew utterly weary of them.
— from In Paths of Peril: A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Waterloo Station, a public place, yet at certain hours of the day a solitary; a place, besides, the very name of which must knock upon the heart of Pitman, and at once suggest a knowledge of the latest of his guilty secrets.
— from The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sold at per pound, your lot but ask it, Shall be weigh’d to you in a basket; Some lots of tools , to make a try on.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

I am perfectly sure that you would not scruple at Paley personally; you might not agree with him, but you would call him a bold thinker: then why should St. Alfonso's person be odious to you, as well as his doctrine?
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

And though it would be misleading to speak of that poem as, in any sense, a philosophical poem, yet, as in all other great works of genius, some theory of life—of man’s relation to his circumstances and of his place, either in a spiritual or natural dispensation—pervades and gives its highest meaning to the didactic exposition.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

I don’t like your principles, your way of sneering at poor people, your laxity in many things--” “For instance?”
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers

Believing thus what he so oft repeats, He's brought the thing to such a pass, poor youth, That now himself and no one else he cheats, Save when unluckily he tells the truth.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you want to see any particular person, you do not go in and see him—he comes to you and you sit in a place like the visitors' dock at Sing-Sing.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard