and they make me a pet besides, And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk, To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way; Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The most it meant was that it might bring some money, and little enough did he care for money.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Near the top of this hill, about two miles from Linden-Car, stood Wildfell Hall, a superannuated mansion of the Elizabethan era, built of dark grey stone, venerable and picturesque to look at, but doubtless, cold and gloomy enough to inhabit, with its thick stone mullions and little latticed panes, its time-eaten air-holes, and its too lonely, too unsheltered situation,—only shielded from the war of wind and weather by a group of Scotch firs, themselves half blighted with storms, and looking as stern and gloomy as the Hall itself.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In a few days we shall make a last effort.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Shuddering with emotion, I could not take my agonised eyes from my mother's face, which was not to appear that evening in the bedroom where I could see myself already lying, in imagination; and wished only that I were lying dead.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I'll follow thee a month, devise with the Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us, And we of thee; so, if the time thrust forth A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send O'er the vast world to seek a single man, And lose advantage, which doth ever cool
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But we are far from any such strange conceits, and will permit our wives and daughters to go to the tavern with a friend, as Aubanus saith, modo absit lascivia , and suspect nothing, to kiss coming and going, which, as Erasmus writes in one of his epistles, they cannot endure.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In this part of the world a chief will commonly ring a bell at each draught of beer which he swallows, and at the same moment a lad stationed in front of him brandishes a spear “to keep at bay the spirits which might try to sneak into the old chief’s body by the same road as the beer.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I should enjoy nothing so much as lifting the veil from his eyes.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Pray show me a little, so that I may see the different ways in which they can be put.
— from French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

"November 2. Walking on shore met a large party.
— from Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812 by Sarah J. Rhea

Perhaps you would like to have my rooms altogether; if so, make at least no scruple of saying it.”
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Out from that forest hermitage where the two worked, one in serene though longing happiness, the other under the stern discipline of loss and self-abnegation, had poured, in six short months, a living current of song which had lifted the fame of Royce Melvin to new heights: her fame only, for Banneker would not use his name to the words that rang with a pure and vivid melody of their own.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

These casks were turned on end and a deck of planks placed over them, on which the Malays laid their sleeping mats and little wooden pillows.
— from The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont

Wherever she put her hand there arose a lovely hill, and where she stepped she made a lake.
— from Finnish Legends for English Children by R. Eivind

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— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

But night has now quite set in; you must be fatigued by the obstinate pursuit you experienced the whole day, and the powerful emotion you endured: sleep, while I watch for both, especially as I expect we shall make a long march to-morrow, and you must be prepared for it."
— from The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

, 197 Reade, Winwood, influence of his "Martyrdom of Man" on Rhodes, 126 Rhodes, Cecil, agitates for suspension of constitution, 118 , 155 , 213 , 224 beginning of his fortune, 21 created a Privy Councillor, 43 death, 129 , 153 , 224 end of his political career, 47 , 50 , 57 , 73 enters political life, 28 patriotism of, 10 , 17 , 31 , 76 , 82 , 152 , 230 Rhodes, Herbert (brother of Cecil Rhodes), 20 Rhodesia, annexation of, 24 , 25 , 28 , 35 , 36 , 78 exploitation of, 198 question of its mineral wealth, 177 Rhodes as "King" of, 122 Roberts, Lord, complimentary lunch to, 134 Rhodes' abuse of, 147 Rowntree, Mr., and the concentration camps, 187 Russia, Wallace's work on, 126 S Sandringham, Rhodes at, 126 Sargent, E.B., 183 Sauer, Mr., 86 , 117 , 134 , 150 , 155 , and Rhodes, 73 leader of Bond party, 100 Schoeman, Mr., illegal arrest of, and Lord Kitchener's intervention, 200 , 201 Schoeman, Mr., and Loyalists, 219 Schreiner, Mr., 38 , 86 , 133 , 150 confidence in Rhodes, 32 indignation with Rhodes, 50 , 73 questions Rhodes, 45 Rhodes and, 23 , 74 Schreiner, Olive, on annexation of Rhodesia, 36 Rhodes and, 33 Simonstown, camp for prisoners of war at, 172 Smuts, General, Imperialism of, xii Sonnenberg, Mr., and Rhodes, 26 South Africa ( see Africa, South) South African League, 86 , 88 , 97 , 99 a petition to Sir Gordon Sprigg, 99 , 102 and Sir A. Milner, 90 Southern Cross, the, 22 Sprigg, Sir Gordon, and the South African League, 99 diamond and dop taxes, 224 Premier of Cape Colony, 99 , 121 , 132 Stead, W.T., admiration of Rhodes, 212 and Sir A. Milner, 209 Steyn, President, and Mrs. van Koopman, 40 T Transvaal, the, flight of Boer inhabitants, 158 gold mines, 1 , 3 , 17 loyalty to England, 129 object of Jameson Raid, 53 racial qualifications, 137 Transvaal Republic, intrigues in, 1 U Uitenhage, martial law in, 218 Uitlanders, the, and concentration camps, 163 quarrel with, 30 their part in the Boer War, 16 , 97 , 137 , 139 Union of South Africa, 228 an accomplished fact, 131 , 228 magnates' views, 207 organisation of, 2 Sir A. Milner's part in constitution, 14 united effort for, 225 W Wall, David de, 99 , 101 , 146 Wales, Prince of (Edward VII.), 126 Wallace, Mackenzie, meets Rhodes,
— from Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess