“When Dorcas Sloane got married last summer she said if she’d had enough money to live on she’d never have been bothered with a man, but even a widower with eight children was better’n living with a sister-in-law.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Therewithal the queen with a crowd of mothers ascends bearing gifts to Pallas' towered temple, and by her side goes maiden Lavinia, source of all that woe, [Pg 259]
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Before we could get to the end of the gallery, we heard the door of the great chamber clap behind us, but we did not dare turn back to see if the giant was following us—yet, now I think on it, we must have heard him if he had pursued us—but for Heaven’s sake, good my Lord, send for the chaplain, and have the castle exorcised, for, for certain, it is enchanted.”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Halleck suggested that some good man, like Sherman or McPherson, should be sent to Memphis to take charge of the troops going east.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

It was now at my own suggestion that the supervisor gave me large sheets of manila wrapping paper.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers

Chiamavi 'l cielo e 'ntorno vi si gira, mostrandovi le sue bellezze etterne, e l'occhio vostro pur a terra mira; onde vi batte chi tutto discerne>>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Amid natural outcries of popular wonderment Lohengrin appears, and, as he leaves his boat, bids farewell to his swan in a strain of delicate beauty ("Nun sei gedankt, mein lieber Schwan").
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

These mens discontentments and mislikings before our comming home haue made mee labour thus much to instruct you in the certaintie of euery thing, because I would not willingly haue you miscaried in the indgements of them, wherein you shall giue me leaue somewhat to dilate vpon a question, which I onely touched in the beginning of my letter, namely, whether it bee more expedient for our estate to maintain an offensiue war against the king of Spaine in the Low countries, or as in this iourney, to offend him in his neerer territories, seeing the grounds of arguing thereof are taken from the experience which the actions of this iourney haue giuen vs. There is no good subiect that will make question, whether it be behoofeful for vs to hold friendship with these neighbours of ours or no, as well in respect of the infinite proportion of their shipping, which must stand either with vs or against vs; as of the commoditie of their harbors, especially that of Vlishing, by the fauour whereof our Nauie may continually keepe the Narrow seas, and which would harbour a greater Fleete agaynst vs, then the Spaniard shall need to annoy vs withall, who being now distressed by our common enemie, I thinke it most expedient for our safetie to defend them, and if it may be, to giue them a reentrie into that they haue of late yeeres lost vnto him.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

Good morrow, good son Roper.— Sit, good madame, [Low stools.]
— from Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Ippolitow —“In the Village” from Caucassian Sketches (W. Lincer and M. Nazzi, soloists) Khachaturian —“Masquerade Suite”—LP Messiaen —“L’Ascension”—LP Sibelius —“Maiden with the Roses”—LP Schoenberg —Stein-Lied Der Waldtaure sus Gurrelieder (Martha Lipton, soloist)—LP Tschaikowsky —Francesca da Rimini, Op.
— from George Frideric Handel by Herbert F. (Herbert Francis) Peyser

Certainly, if I had my choice, I would rather write a book interesting to the young and to the common people, whom Lincoln said "God must love, since He made so many of them."
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

Between the first election and inauguration of Mr. Lincoln the disunion sentiment grew rapidly in the South, and President Buchanan’s failure to stop the open acts of secession grieved Mr. Lincoln sorely.
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure