This evening he finds no pleasure in placing his bony hand on his Christian nose that he may slip it down dissemblingly (as Doña Consolacion has observed) over the bosom of the attractive young woman who may have bent over to receive his blessing.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The Communists had shown that an organization calling itself a party , actually a quasi-religious hierarchy with strong internal discipline, definite membership, and active organizational components, could control fifty times its own membership.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The triple world is wild with care, Or spiritless in dull despair.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The next moment, with shattering violence, he had swung the motor round and sent it dashing down the steep side street to the sea, like a man that desired only to die.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

= KEY: Purpose \v.\. SYN: Intend, determine, design, resolve, mean, propose.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

What shall I do?” “Do?” “Yes.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Sir, I do depend upon the Lord.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When we get out of clothes en get sick in dat day en time, we never had to do nothin but go to us Massa.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

“As to any attentions on his side, I do declare, upon my honour, I never was sensible of them for a moment—except just his asking me to dance the first day of his coming.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

When they vexed him, he would break out into expressions like the following: "Io son ito, da dodici anni in qua, tapinando per tutta Italia; sopportato ogni vergognia; patito ogni stento; lacerato il corpo mio in ogni fatica; messa la vita propria a mille pericoli, solo per aiutar la casa mia."
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong?
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The menace was borrowed from the famous project conceived by William the Silent in darker days, and seemed to the ambassador a present anachronism.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Masters of themselves though China fall, even should it drag down with it Japan and Korea.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 10, 1915 by Various

That Wine I have, see it ( Demetrius ) Distributed amongst the soldiers, To make 'em high and lusty: when that's done, Petillius , give the word through, that the Eagles May presently advance: no man discover, Upon his life, the enemies full strength, But make it of no value: Decius , Are your starv'd people yet come home?
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

They have lived so near Manhattan, where refinement is so plenty, where the joy they jerk from barley—every other day but Sunday—gives the town a reddish color, that the Shinnecock is dying, dying with his cowhide boots on, dying with his hectic flush on, while the church bells chime in Brooklyn and New Yorkers go to Jersey, go to get their fire-water, go to get their red-eyed bug-juice, go to get their cooking whiskey.
— from Bill Nye's Sparks by Bill Nye