Besides the company who had been at dinner, there were Mr. Garrick, Mr. Harris of Salisbury, Dr. Percy, Dr. Burney, Honourable Mrs. Cholmondeley, Miss Hannah More, &c. &c. After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

"He is treacherous and malicious," said Dame Pally Dyre, Grubbe's daughter.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Everything being thus mapped out with almost diabolical cunning, the main body of the redskins folded their blankets around them, and in the phlegmatic manner that is to them the pearl of manhood squatted above the children's home, awaiting the cold moment when they should deal pale death.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

dear , I dare, 2 pr. s. dearst , pl. durron , subj.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

quitter , se séparer de; partir de. quoi , pro rel.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

So does Padre Damaso, but she doesn’t say either yes or no.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Believing that I had come too far to the north and west, I turned back in a southeasterly direction, passing during the forenoon several other large cities, but none resembling the description which Kantos Kan had given me of Helium.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

My father, who dipped into all kinds of books, upon looking into Lithopaedus Senonesis de Portu difficili, (The author is here twice mistaken; for Lithopaedus should be wrote thus, Lithopaedii Senonensis Icon.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Si je devais donner un conseil (mais conseiller qui, quel organisme?), je suggérerais de porter davantage d'attention à la qualité des contenus.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae DUNCAN, King of Scotland MACBETH, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, a general in the King's army LADY MACBETH, his wife MACDUFF, Thane of Fife, a nobleman of Scotland LADY MACDUFF, his wife MALCOLM, elder son of Duncan DONALBAIN, younger son of Duncan BANQUO, Thane of Lochaber, a general in the King's army FLEANCE, his son LENNOX, nobleman of Scotland ROSS, nobleman of Scotland MENTEITH nobleman of Scotland ANGUS, nobleman of Scotland CAITHNESS, nobleman of Scotland SIWARD, Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces YOUNG SIWARD, his son SEYTON, attendant to Macbeth HECATE, Queen of the Witches The Three Witches Boy, Son of Macduff Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor A Sergeant A Porter An Old Man The Ghost of Banquo and other Apparitions Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murtherers, Attendants, and Messengers <— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

" Several days passed, during which we followed our several occupations.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

"Lord, it's de sun dat puts de fire out o' countenance.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The same -a is finally used as the plural ending of most neuters, but, as is now universally admitted (see especially Johannes Schmidt, Die Pluralbildungen der indogerm.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

The mission of Russia in English literature is to furnish tall, smooth, diabolical persons, devoted to vodka, absinthe, oppression of the peasantry, cultivation of a black beard, and general cussedness.
— from The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson

It is also matter of Humiliation, that when Differences fell out amongst these, who did own Truth, and bear witness against the Course of Defection, they were not managed with due Charity and Love, but with too much heat and bitterness, injurious Reflections used against Pious and Worthy men on all hands, and scandalous Divisions occasioned, and the Success of the Gospel greatly obstructed thereby, and some dangerous Principles drunk in: And after all this, there were shameful advances towards Popery, the abomination of the Mass was set up in many places, and Popish Schools erected, and severals fell to Idolatry.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly