“He handed me the very paper which I have here, Watson, and this is the strange catechism to which each Musgrave had to submit when he came to man's estate.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But if they shall choose the third, and reply that these intermediary demons have communicated, not only the opinion of Plato, which prohibited wrongs to be done to the gods, but also their own delight in these wrongs, I would ask if such a communication is not rather an insult?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For a certain time Hannibal kept his men for the most part within their lines, because the camps were so close to each other; but, after the lapse of some days, he was obliged to divide them into two parties, one for pasturing the animals, and one for gathering corn: being very anxious to carry out his design of avoiding the destruction of his booty, and of collecting as much corn as possible, that his men might have abundant 259 food during the winter, and his horses and beasts of burden as much so; for the chief hope of his army rested on his cavalry.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It looks so crumpled to me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"They say also," said Camilla, "that what costs little is valued less."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For a whole day and part of a night we lay so close to another ship that had drifted to our vicinity, that we carried on conversations with her passengers, introduced each other by name, and became pretty intimately acquainted with people we had never heard of before, and have never heard of since.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Three or four days afterwards, however, as we had supper together and alone, I told her so many things, and I asked her so clearly to make me happy or else to dismiss me, that she gave me an appointment for the next day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

108 There is thus a conscious and voluntary way and an involuntary and unconscious way in which mental results may get accomplished; and we find both ways exemplified in the history of conversion, giving us two types, which Starbuck calls the volitional type and the type by self-surrender respectively.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Here is a young woman who has had every chance in life that hick could give her: silk cradles, gold rattles, rank, wealth, schooling, travelling, swell acquaintances, and anything else she chose to ask for.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

Mr. Carat, the jeweller, was arrived, and eager to settle with Mr. Holloway about the lottery: he had brought the prizes in a small case, to be delivered, upon receiving from Holloway the money for all the tickets of which he had disposed.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

But Harry only laughed, while Kate urged everything she could think of—ruin to his prospects, his uncle's anger, etc.
— from Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, G. C., Mrs.

"Come," I said, "leave these abstruse studies; take off that symbolic coat, that tinsel crown; wash, comb your hair, and walk with me."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He had hoped, from the peculiar situation of the country, and of the Senate, that nothing would have been brought forward in the answer, on the subject which agitated the June Executive session, calculated to wound the feelings of members.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

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— from John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V. by John Call Dalton

,” said Mr. Pembroke, slowly closing the lid of the desk,—“school is the world in miniature.”
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster