If we only get to make it round, we shall be perfect, Charley."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

We were certain of turning to good account the two hours we had then to spare before parting company, which we did at the dawn of day, humiliated at having to confess our exhaustion, but highly pleased with each other, and longing for a renewal of our delightful pleasures.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The chief charm of this spot consists in two linden-trees, spreading their enormous branches over the little green before the church, which is entirely surrounded by peasants' cottages, barns, and homesteads.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If they first swerve by public concert, by wicked fraud, on that day do thou, O Jupiter, so strike the Roman people, as I shall here this day strike this swine; and do thou strike them so much the more, as thou art more able and more powerful."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

His chief companions, before he married Lady Warwick, were Steele, Budgell, Philips, Carey, Davenant, and Colonell Brett.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Jones offered to speak, but Partridge cried “Hush, hush!
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

As for you, little envious prigs, snarling bastards, puny critics, you’ll soon have railed your last; go hang yourselves, and choose you out some well-spread oak, under whose shade you may swing in state, to the admiration of the gaping mob; you shall never want rope enough.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

«Vous avez parfaitement raison, répliqua Napoléon, car chacun se bat pour ce qu'il n'a pas.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

So both parties claimed the victory.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Hence it is obvious, that in loading a screw barrel pistol, care should be taken that the cavity for the powder be entirely filled with it, so as to leave no space between the powder and the ball.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

There shall be proper columns on the debit side in which are to be entered the date when any material is received, the name and residence of the person from whom received, the kind of material, the quantity in wine gallons, and, if methyl alcohol, [242] in proof gallons, the date upon which the material was dumped into the tank, the number of the tank, the date upon which sample was forwarded, and the number of the sample, and the result of the official test.
— from A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products by F. B. (Frederic B.) Wright

310 OCTOBER 20 BREAKFAST LUNCHEON Baked apples Hard boiled eggs, vinaigrette Oatmeal and cream Fried scallops, Tartar English breakfast tea Broiled squab on toast Crescents Stewed corn Romaine salad Camembert cheese Crackers Coffee DINNER Toke Point oysters Potage bouquetière Celery Fresh herring, à l'Egyptienne Small boiled potatoes Cucumber salad Chicken en cocotte, Bazar Cold asparagus, mustard sauce French pastry Assorted fruits Demi tasse Hard boiled eggs, vinaigrette.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

W. X. Y. Z. A LIST OF THE NAMES and Places of Abode, of the several Booksellers, Printsellers, &c. mentioned in this Catalogue .
— from The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. by Various

After four years the crudity of it all astonished her––the stark vulgarity of Main Street in the sunshine, every mean, flimsy architectural detail revealed––the dingy trolley poles, the telegraph poles loaded with unlovely wires and battered little electric light fixtures––the uncompromising, unrelieved ugliness of street and people, of shop and vehicle, of treeless sidewalks, brick pavement, car rails, hydrants, and rusty gasoline pumps.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The main body of the invading force appears to have been lurking in this neighbourhood, as they were able upon April 7th to cut off a strong British patrol, consisting of a hundred Lancers and Yeomanry, seventy-five of whom remained as temporary prisoners in the hands of the enemy.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

The solution should be perfectly clear, and if it does not clear up put it over the heat for a few moments.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler